International Co-productions

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) supports international treaty co-productions through both its Convergent and Experimental streams. In 2011-2012, international treaty co-productions represented a small portion of CMF funded projects, just over 6% of all convergent funding. There were no co-productions funded in the Experimental stream in 2011-2012.

At a total of $19.0 M, the CMF committed more than double the funding for international treaty co-productions in the last fiscal year than in 2010-2011 ($9.1 M), although the number of projects was consistent at 23. This remained below the previous five-year average of $26.4 M. The increase in funding was due to a handful of big-budget series led by Combat Hospital and The Borgias.

The majority of co-productions were with the United Kingdom (8) and France (10), as has been the trend in recent years. France re-established itself as the top co-producing country, after a decline in 2010-2011 dropped it to second. As it did last year, Singapore had two projects funded, with Ireland, Hungary, Romania and China each co-producing 1 project each. There were no co-productions with either Germany or Australia again this year, despite consistent partnerships with CMF-funded producers in the past.

Convergent

Experimental