Callout: Telefilm Canada International Festival Participation Pilot Initiative

Telefilm Canada International Festival Participation Pilot Initiative

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until January 15, 2007

Telefilm Canada launched today the International Festival Participation
Pilot Initiative to support the promotion of Canadian productions at
top-level, world-class international festivals most apt to generate
additional publicity. The Pilot Initiative focuses on providing financial
assistance for the marketing of English- and French-language Canadian
feature films officially selected at Cannes, Berlin, Pusan, Sundance and
Venice. The International Festival Participation Pilot Initiative takes
effect immediately.

Eligibility criteria
Financial assistance through the Pilot Initiative will be awarded to support
the international marketing of productions meeting the following criteria:

Be a Canadian feature film as defined under Eligible Projects of the Canada
Feature Film Fund guidelines (although the title need not necessarily be
financed by the CFFF);
Be officially selected at one of the following five major international film
festivals: Cannes, Berlin, Pusan, Sundance or Venice;
Have a marketing and sales strategy that includes the participation at the
festivals for which the film has been selected;
Demonstrate potential sales revenues in foreign markets; and
If the film is an official co-production, it must be a majority Canadian
co-production.
Eligible costs
Eligible costs shall be limited to those related to the promotional campaign
for the selected film at the festival, for example:

Printing and advertising costs incurred for participation at the festival;
Airfare and reasonable accommodation expenses for the applicant and film’s
artistic crew (director, screenwriter, main cast, etc.);
Hiring of a publicist; and
Subtitling into third languages other than English and French.
Telefilm’s maximum level of financing is determined by a number of criteria,
as outlined in the guidelines on
http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/03/311.asp?doc_id=111&fond_id=1.

Applicants must submit their completed application at least three weeks
prior to opening day of the festival for which participation support is
being requested.