Program Administration

In 2015-2016, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Telefilm Canada celebrated their 10th year working together on program administration. The Services Agreement with Telefilm for the administration of CMF Program was first established in 2005-2006.

The CMF Program Administrator | Telefilm Canada (CMFPA) received 2,070 applications in 2015-2016, an increase of 4.5% over the previous year (1,981). Of the total number of applications received, 1,413 were funded, up 1% from 2014-2015. The CMFPA also reviewed final costs of more than 800 files and processed about 2,700 disbursements.

Number of applications approved in 2015-2016

		TV	DM	Total
Experimental Stream	Production	-	45	45
	Development	-	43	43
	Marketing	-	16	16
	International coproduction and codevelopment incentives	-	10	10
Accelerator Partnership Program		-	16	16
Experimental Stream Total		-	130	130
Convergent Stream	Production	540	234	774
	Development	453	12	465
	Versioning	18	1	19
	International coproduction and codevelopment incentives	8	-	8
Convergent Stream Total		1,019	247	1,266
Corus CMF Page to Pitch Program		17	-	17
Grand total		1,036	377	1,413

 

In the Convergent and Experimental streams combined, the CMFPA team provided pre-application consulting services for more than 350 projects so that producers could verify the eligibility of their applications prior to submission.

In 2015-2016, CMFPA continued to implement a number of process improvements to efficiently manage the CMF’s funding programs. In order to optimize staffing, the CMFPA reviewed its management structure and this new work organization will be implemented as of April 1, 2016. In addition, a new file administration system was developed and will be gradually implemented over the course of the next two years, starting with deployment for the Experimental Stream in 2016.

Administrative service levels were not attained for a few programs in 2015-2016, in particular for submissions of final costs reports, mainly due to an increase in the number of projects reaching this stage and staff turnover. The turnaround time for final costs will be one of the CMFPA’s main focuses in 2016-2017. The CMF and the CMFPA continue to work closely to streamline the analysis process in an effort to improve the level of services offered to clients.

 

Turnaround time (days) - 2015-2016

		Administrative service level		Actual		Variance
		TV	DM	TV	DM	TV	DM
Experimental Stream Production	Selective Decision	-	55	-	41.1	-	13.9
	Contract and first payment	-	30	-	14.5	-	15.5
	Beta Version	-	10	-	5.3	-	4.7
	Final Cost	-	31	-	36.7	-	-5.7
Experimental Stream Development and Marketing	Selective Decision	-	55	-	45.0	-	10.0
	Contract and first payment	-	20	-	14.5	-	5.5
	Other disbursements	-	20	-	5.3	-	14.7
Performance Envelope Production	Contract and first payment	30.5	30.5	26.7	29.2	3.8	1.3
	Rough Cut/ beta Version	7	7	8.8	9.2	-1.8	-2.2
	Final Cost	31	31	35.0	34.0	-4.0	-3.0
	Not funded DM Component	-	30.5	-	15.3	-	15.2
Selective Programs Production	Contract and first payment	50.5	50.5	40.2	39.2	10.3	11.3
	Rough Cut/ beta Version	7	7	3.8	3.0	3.2	4.0
	Final Cost	31	31	39.9	36.2	-8.9	-5.2
	Not funded DM Component	-	50.5	-	30.0	-	20.5
Development (Envelopes, Francophone Minority Program and Aboriginal Program)	Contract and first payment	24	24	20.3	26.5	3.7	-2.5
	Other disbursements	6	6	23.4	9.0	-17.4	-3.0
	Not funded DM Component	-	24	-	8.4	-	15.6
Versioning	Contract and first payment	15.5	15.5	8.9	6.0	6.6	9.5
	Other disbursements	6	-	4.7	-	1.3	-

¹The number of approved projects excludes the 108 approved non-funded applications, 4 television components and 104 digital media components that allow certain projects to meet Convergent Stream eligibility criteria.

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