English POV Program

This program is designed to support the growth of English-language point of view (POV) documentaries. This program is part of the Canada Media Fund’s (CMF) Convergent Stream; thus, projects funded through this program must include content to be produced for distribution on at least two platforms, one of which must be television and the other, digital media. Funding from this program is allocated according to a selective process, using an evaluation grid.

The budget of the English POV Program was $3.4 M in 2013-2014.

A total of 10 one-hour and feature length documentaries received $3.2M. The average television project budget reached a 4-year high of $630K. Nine out of the 10 convergent projects had digital media second screen components. Nine projects were feature-length documentaries of 1½ hours. Regional projects received 52% of funding in 2013-2014.

Funding trends

	2010-2011					2011-2012
	Funding ($K)					Funding ($K)
	TV	DM	Total	Number of projects	Budgets ($M)	TV	DM	Total	Number of projects	Budgets ($M)
Total	2.3	0.3	2.6	17	6.9	2.2	0.3	2.5	13	7.7
	2012-2013					2013-2014
	Funding ($K)					Funding ($K)
	TV	DM	Total	Number of projects	Budgets ($M)	TV	DM	Total	Number of projects	Budgets ($M)
Total	2.5	0.5	3.0	14	8.1	2.7	0.5	3.2	10	7.0

Broadcasters triggering English POV program projects in 2013-2014 were Super Channel, Vision TV, CBC, Movie Central and The Movie Network, Nunavut Independent Television Network, Canal D, and Knowledge Network.

Financing 2013-2014

	Television		Digital Media
	($M)	%	($M)	%
CMF - POV	2.7	43.0	0.5	75.0
CMF - Performance Envelope	0.1	1.0	0.0	0.0
CMF	2.8	44.0	0.5	75.0
Broadcasters	1.0	16.2	0.1	10.0
Provincial	1.1	18.2	0.0	4.2
Federal	0.5	7.9	0.0	0.0
Private Funds	0.2	2.8	0.0	1.1
Producers	0.5	8.6	0.1	9.7
Foreign	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Distributors	0.1	1.3	0.0	0.0
Other	0.1	1.0	0.0	0.0
Total	6.3	100.0	0.7	100.0

 

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