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Category Archives: financing

Just Think About This

“…the secret to the future of all Content and its value as an investment vehicle, lays in age old tradition of compelling storytelling.”
The above quote comes from Gerson Lehrman Group.  It is part of the summary of a much longer analysis; a rebuttal to an article by Ethan Smith in the Wall Street Journal about […]

Colour Me Confused

Can someone please explain this to me?  It’s from an email I got today about OMDC tax credits for web series.
The OMDC has provided this information re web series tax credit eligibility (or non-eligibility!) to try to clarify the regulations.  Basically, unless 50% of the project is not interactive material, a web series is not […]

Experimenting with the Experimental Fund

These are exciting times.  There’s finally money around to invest in digital creations thanks to the IPF and the CMF’s new experimental fund.  I went to the CMF information session this morning at the Royal York and basically I liked what I heard.
These aren’t verbatim quotes, but what I heard was, there are some rules, […]

Fun With Technology

Poor Valerie Creighton.  Late Friday afternoon, a bulk email signed by her went out announcing the launch of the new CMF on Friday March 26. That’s the new and improved version of the Canadian Television Fund which, along with changing its name to the Canada Media Fund is going to usher the industry into […]