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.
# of projects | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 |
France | 6 | 10 |
United Kingdom | 12 | 8 |
Singapore | 2 | 2 |
China | 1 | |
Hungary | 1 | 1 |
Ireland | 1 | 1 |
Romania | 1 | |
Belgium | 1 | |
Brazil | 1 | |
Total | 23 | 23 |
Convergent
2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | Past 5-year average | ||||||
$M Funding | # of projects | Hours | $M Funding | # of projects | Hours | $M Funding | Hours | |
Majority Treaty co-pros | 4.7 | 9 | 52 | 14.6 | 11 | 72 | ||
Majority Share % of Total | 1.6 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 2.6 | ||
Minority Treaty co-pros | 4.4 | 14 | 47 | 4.4 | 12 | 50 | ||
Minority Share % of Total | 1.5 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 1.8 | ||
All Treaty co-pros | 9.1 | 23 | 99 | 19.0 | 23 | 121 | 12.1 | 132 |
All Treaty co-pros % of Total | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
Total Convergent projects | 288.3 | 452 | 2,491 | 312.5 | 509 | 2,801 | 271.5 | 2,316 |
Experimental
2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | |||
$M Funding | # | $M Funding | # | |
Majority international co-pros | 1.2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
Majority Share % of Total | 5 | 5 | - | - |
Minority international co-pros | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
Minority Share % of Total | - | - | - | - |
All Treaty co-pros | 1.2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
All Treaty co-pros % of Total | 6 | 5 | - | - |
Total Experimental projects | 21.3 | 42 | 23.4 | 45 |