Ontario Arts Council’s Media Artists Creation Projects (Canada)

Categories

• The program has two categories:
  • Emerging Artist: You have completed at least one independent media work and are not currently enrolled in a formal media arts education program.
  • Mid-Career & Established Artist: You have completed at least two previous media works independently. Mid-Career artists have a history of independent media arts practice of at least 5 years. Established artists have a history of independent media arts practice of at least 15 years.

Priorities

• The program’s priorities are to support:
  • projects that are innovative – in content, point of view, form, style, technique or process
  • projects that further the applicant’s development as an artist
• This arts council program is not intended to support commercial media production. There are other funders that support the commercial film, television, and game industries.

Funding Information

• Emerging: $10,000 maximum
• Mid-Career & Established: $40,000 maximum
• Important: Total project budgets must not exceed:
  • $125,000 for Emerging applications
  • $300,000 for Mid-Career & Established applications.

Eligibility Criteria

• Directors/principal media artists who:
  • reside in Ontario
  • have completed the requisite number of independent works for their applicant type (emerging, mid-career or established)
  • are taking their own initiative and making their own decisions about the work to be created
  • work with or without a producer
  • hold copyright over the proposed work
• Contracts with producers or other funders must not require that the artist give up such control, even if they are arranged after confirmation of OAC support.

For more information, visit Media Artists Creation Projects.