Canada & Denmark in Digital Media Co-Development Push

TORONTO/COPENHAGEN: The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and the Danish Film Institute (DFI) have established an incentive for the co-development of digital media projects between Canadian and Danish producers.

The initiative will support the co-development of new digital content that is innovative, explores new ways of telling stories, experiments with new formats and platforms and new ways of engaging audiences. The project must involve at least one Danish producer eligible under the DFI’s criteria and one Canadian producer eligible under the CMF’s criteria. The Canada-Denmark Co-Development Incentive for Digital Media Projects budget is set at C$300,000 ($225,000), with each partner investing half of the total.

“This partnership is a reflection of the CMF’s commitment to provide access to diverse sources of funding for Canadian digital media producers. It supports our objective to foster mutually-beneficial relationships between content creators from Canada and their counterparts in key coproduction countries, such as Denmark,” said Valerie Creighton, the president and CEO of the Canada Media Fund. “We are pleased to be working with the Danish Film Institute. We believe this initiative will expose audiences from both countries to the quality and creativity, as well as the depth and diversity of Canadian and Danish digital media content.”

“We are looking forward to this unique opportunity to working with the CMF, a frontrunner in promoting digital content to broad audiences. We hope and believe that this new collaboration will be hugely inspirational for producers and creatives in both our countries,” said Claus Ladegaard, the head of film funding of the Danish Film Institute.