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, usually in French or English. 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.
In 2012-2013, the CMF’s Versioning Program provided $1.6M or an 8.2% increase in funding over 2011-2012 due to additional funds being made available to the program, supporting 31 projects, 6 more than last year. Twenty of the projects (64.5% ) were initially produced in the English-language and thirteen of the projects (41.9% ) were from the documentary genre. The program also funded 11 children’s and youth projects. Three projects were originally produced in Mandarin and one was an Aboriginal-language project. One was a digital media component. Of the television projects, there were ten one-offs, 19 series, and one movie of the week. One drama project originally in Mandarin was versioned into Cantonese.
Funding by Genre
2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | ||||||||||
Funding ($K) |
Share of funding (%) |
Number of projects | Hours |
Funding ($K) |
Share of funding (%) |
Number of projects | Hours |
Funding ($K) |
Share of funding (%) |
Number of projects | Hours | |
Children's & Youth | 1,132 | 78.1 | 9 | 86 | 927 | 61.8 | 12 | 96 | 503 | 31.0 | 11 | 38 |
Documentary | 235 | 16.2 | 4 | 13 | 363 | 24.3 | 5 | 32 | 261 | 16.1 | 13 | 33 |
Drama | 78 | 5.4 | 1 | 11 | 200 | 13.3 | 7 | 25 | 858 | 52.9 | 7 | 73 |
Variety & Performing Arts | 4 | 0.3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0.6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 1,449 | 100.0 | 15 | 111 | 1,499 | 100.0 | 25 | 155 | 1,622 | 100.0 | 31 | 144 |
Funding by Original Linguistic Market
2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | ||||||||||
Funding ($K) |
Share of funding (%) |
Number of projects | Hours |
Funding ($K) |
Share of funding (%) |
Number of projects | Hours |
Funding ($K) |
Share of funding (%) |
Number of projects | Hours | |
English | 1,347 | 93.0 | 11 | 98 | 1,325 | 88.4 | 19 | 132 | 1,286 | 79.3 | 20 | 115 |
French | 102 | 7.0 | 4 | 13 | 174 | 11.6 | 6 | 23 | 189 | 11.6 | 7 | 22 |
Aboriginal and Diverse | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 9.1 | 4 | 7 |
Total | 1,449 | 100.0 | 15 | 111 | 1,499 | 100.0 | 25 | 155 | 1,622 | 100.0 | 31 | 144 |