International Co-productions
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) supports international co-productions through both its Convergent and Experimental streams. In 2012-2013, international treaty co-productions represented a small portion of CMF funded projects, 2.3% of all convergent funding. There were no co-productions funded in the Experimental Stream in 2012-2013.
At a total of $7.4M, funding retreated to 2010-2011 levels ($9.1M), from a high of $19.0M in 2011-2012, although the number of projects was consistent at 23.
The majority of co-productions were with the United Kingdom (10) and France (6), as has been the trend in recent years. New co-producing partners included Colombia and Finland. Ireland co-produced a big-budget drama for the third consecutive year, a new series entitled Vikings. Australia returned with 2 projects and Germany with 1 project in 2012-2013 after a two-year absence.
Funding to minority co-productions represented less than one-third of all co-production funding in 2012-2013.
Projects by Country
| Number of projects | |||
| Country | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 8 | 10 |
| France | 6 | 10 | 6 |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Brazil | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Singapore | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| China | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 24 | 24 | 23 |
Note: projects with 2 co-producing countries are counted twice in this table.
Funding by Type of Co-Production
| 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | |||||||
|
Funding ($M) |
Number of projects | Hours |
Funding ($M) |
Number of projects | Hours |
Funding ($M) |
Number of projects | Hours | |
| Majority | 4.7 | 9 | 52 | 14.6 | 12 | 72 | 5.2 | 10 | 62 |
| Majority Share % of Total | 1.6 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 4.7 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 2.3 |
| Minority | 4.4 | 14 | 47 | 4.4 | 11 | 50 | 2.2 | 12 | 55 |
| Minority Share % of Total | 1.5 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 2.0 |
| Total Co-Productions | 9.1 | 23 | 99 | 19.0 | 23 | 122 | 7.4 | 22 | 117 |
| Total Co-Productions (%) | 3.1 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 6.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 4.5 | 4.3 |
| Total Convergent projects | 288.3 | 452 | 2,491 | 312.5 | 509 | 2,801 | 322.1 | 489 | 2,688 |
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