Versioning Program

The Canada Media Fund’s (CMF) Versioning Program is designed to expand the accessibility of CMF-funded projects to other audiences by adding voice-overs and/or subtitles to projects, in languages other than the original language. Versioning increases revenue potential in other markets when Canadian projects gain further national and international sales. Projects receive funding on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

Number of projects by genre

	Children's & Youth	Documentary	Drama	Variety & Performing Arts	Total
2011-2012	12	5	7	1	25
2012-2013	11	13	7	0	31
2013-2014	7	7	7	0	21
2014-2015	1	19	6	0	26
2015-2016	4	11	4	0	19

 

 

Number of projects by Original Linguistic Market

	English	French	Aboriginal and Diverse	Total
2011-2012	19	6	0	25
2012-2013	20	7	4	31
2013-2014	12	3	6	21
2014-2015	17	6	3	26
2015-2016	15	2	2	19

 

In 2015-2016, the CMF’s Versioning Program had a $1.0M budget allocated to it and was fully spent, supporting 19 projects. A total of 15 of the projects (78.9%) were initially produced in the English-language and there were 11 projects (57.9%) in the Documentary genre. Of the total number of projects, 10 series, 6 one-offs, 2 mini-series, and one digital media project received versioning support. Two projects originally in Italian were versioned into English.

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