Ontario Arts Council
MEDIA ARTISTS: EMERGING
Purpose: To provide grants up to $10,000 to artists working with film, video and digital media as independent artist-controlled art forms. The program supports those working in a range of media production formats, including video, film, audio and digital.
Eligibility: This program is open to Ontario-based emerging media artists. Eligible projects are independent productions initiated by the applicant (director) where the applicant has creative and editorial control. Projects with budgets under $75,000 are eligible.
Deadline: November 1, 2012. One deadline per year.
MEDIA ARTISTS: MID-CAREER AND ESTABLISHED
Purpose: To provide production grants to artists working with film, video and digital media as independent artist-controlled art forms.
Eligibility: This program is open to Ontario-based professional media artists who have completed at least two independent works. Projects with budgets of $300,000 or less, in the following categories, are eligible: documentary, drama, experimental, animation, dance film/video, media art installation, new media and any fusion thereof.
Deadlines: April 16 and October 1, 2012. Two deadlines per year.
CHALMERS ARTS FELLOWSHIPS
Objective: Chalmers Arts Fellowships are grants intended for individual professional artists in Ontario to conduct self-directed research to further develop their artistic practice and creative ability in ways likely to generate long-term artistic and career development. These grants support artists to examine and experiment with style, technique, process, method or content; conduct research that targets an issue or concern in their artistic practice; or research, investigate and/or gather historic information. The program supports artists at any stage of their career development, from emerging to established, including artists whose work reflects Ontario’s linguistic and cultural diversity, or Aboriginal and Franco-Ontarian identities.
Eligibility: This program is open to professional Ontario-based artists. In addition, in order to apply to the Chalmers Arts Fellowships program applicants must:
- Be a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident of Canada, or have an application pending for . permanent resident status and, if requested, be able to provide documentation to verify this; 0. ０.
- Be a resident of Ontario for at least one year before the application is made; .
- Continue to live in Ontario at least eight months a year, with the following exceptions:
- Artists who live in Ontario may leave the province for up to one year and continue to be eligible for OAC support if the absences are temporary (e.g. educational or artistic opportunities) and they do not also apply for support from the jurisdiction of their temporary residence.
- Artists living permanently in Quebec municipalities in the National Capital region who:
- are applying to the OAC in French
- have been recognized as Ontario artists
- contribute actively to the artistic life of Ontario
- have not sought assistance from the Quebec government for the same activity
- work in one of the disciplines supported at OAC: arts education, community arts, crafts, dance, literature, media arts, multidisciplinary arts, music, theatre, visual arts.
Ineligibility: Applications will not be accepted from:
- applicants who have received two Chalmers Arts Fellowships
- members of a college or university faculty (contractually limited appointment or tenure stream appointment)
- co-applicants, groups, ensembles, collectives or organizations (incorporated not-for-profit . or for-profit)
- undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate students enrolled full- or part-time in an academy, school, college or university, regardless of the program of study
- arts administrators
- individuals who have submitted an application or have a grant in progress for the following . OAC grant programs: Chalmers Professional Development Grants, Access and Career . Development, National and International Residency and/or Ontario-Quebec Artist Residencies
- individuals who have any overdue or incomplete OAC post-project reports.
N.B. Chalmers Arts Fellowships neither support film production or post-production, nor dance or music videos.
Deadline: June 1, 2012. One deadline per year.
ABORIGINAL ARTS PROJECTS
Purpose: To develop opportunities for Aboriginal artists to engage with Aboriginal communities, and to strengthen the relationship of Aboriginal organizations and communities with the arts and with Aboriginal artists.
Eligibility: This program is open to professional, Ontario-based Aboriginal artists, including artists’ collectives and non-profit Aboriginal organizations, centres and councils. The OAC does not fund activities, events or projects that have taken place before the program deadline date or that have been completed before the results of the competition have been announced.
Note: Applicants are strongly encouraged to call with questions about their applications before the deadline. Because so many applicants call during the weeks before the deadline, please call with questions as far in advance as possible.
Deadlines: February 15 and September 17, 2012.
AVANCE MÉDIAS
Objectifs: Le programme Avance médias vise à aider les artistes francophones indépendants qui utilisent les arts médiatiques comme moyen d'expression créatrice. Il accorde aux particuliers des subventions de projet pour le développement ou la production de nouvelles oeuvres cinémato-graphiques, vidéographiques ou de nouveaux médias ayant un contenu de langue française.
Admissibilité: Il doit s'agir de projets indépendants entrepris par le candidat et sur lesquels il possède le contrôle et pleine liberté d'expression créative. Seuls sont admissibles les projets où la liberté artistique du réalisateur n'est pas limitée par d'autres sources de financement. Aucune restriction ne s'applique au format des films ou des vidéos ni aux méthodes de production technologiques. Ce programme appuie une vaste gamme de genres: oeuvres dramatiques, expérimentales ou d'animation, le documentaire, et les installation vidéos.
Date limite: le 1 octobre 2012.
EXHIBITION ASSISTANCE
Purpose: The program provides grants of $500 to $1,500 to assist individual artists with costs related to presenting their work in an exhibition. Grants are made through third-party recommenders (public art galleries, artist-run centres and arts service organizations) throughout the province. Artists must apply directly to a recommender located in the zone in which they live. Approved applications are forwarded to OAC by the recommender once the decision to award a grant has been made.
SAW Video is one of three media art recommenders for the OAC's Exhibition Assistance program. The program provides grants to assist Ontario artists at all stages of their careers. SAW Video's typical grant award is $750.
Applicants must apply in advance of their exhibitions as funds cannot be awarded retroactively. SAW Video supports installation, performance and online exhibitions in all forms of media art including video, film, new media and audio.
Eligibility: This program is open to Ontario-based professional visual artists, craft artists and media artists who have a confirmed, upcoming public exhibition. Exhibitions in Ontario, other Canadian provinces and international locations are all eligible.
Deadline: The 2012/13 program is open to applications from June 2012 to February 2013. 2012/13 Exhibition Assistance Program Guidelines and Application Form.
Recommenders establish their own application deadlines for exhibition assistance, or may decide to accept applications on an ongoing basis. SAW Video accepts applications for media art exhibition assistance from artists across Ontario. Its deadlines are August 15 and January 15 each year.
For more information about what to submit, eligible costs and general guidelines, visit the OAC website. Alternatively, contact SAW Video’s administrator at admin@sawvideo.com or the centre’s programmer at programming@sawvideo.com. Application forms and guidelines may also be picked up in person at SAW Video.
Canada Council for the Arts
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/mediaarts
GRANTS TO FILM AND VIDEO ARTISTS: RESEARCH/CREATION, PRODUCTION, SCRIPTWRITING
Research/creation and production grants are available to established, mid-career and emerging artists. Scriptwriting grants are available to established and mid-career artists only.
Research/Creation Grants
- Established and mid-career artists: $3,000 to $60,000
- Emerging artists: $3,000 to $20,000.
Production Grants
- Established and mid-career artists: $3,000 to $60,000
- Emerging artists: $3,000 to $20,000.
Scriptwriting Grants
Mid-career and established artists: $3,000 to $20,000.
Deadlines: March 1 and October 1, 2012.
GRANTS TO NEW MEDIA AND AUDIO ARTISTS: RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION GRANTS
Production grants are available to established, mid-career and emerging artists. Research grants are available to established and mid-career artists only.
Research Grants
Mid-career or established artists: $3,000 to $20,000
Production Grants
- Emerging artists: up to $20,000
- Mid-career or established artists:
- new media: up to $60,000
- audio: up to $35,000
Deadlines: March 1 and October 1, 2012.
DANCE ON SCREEN PRODUCTION FUND
Delivered through the dance section of the Canada Council for the Arts
This program supports the production and dissemination of Canadian professional screen-based dance work on film or video. These works must have the potential to reach broad audiences, in all regions, on the large or small screen. This is why distribution plans, broadcast licences or agreements are eligibility criteria for funding (unlike programs delivered by the media arts section). The Dance on Screen Production Fund offers both development and production grants.
Deadline: October 15, 2012.
TRAVEL GRANTS TO MEDIA ARTS PROFESSIONALS
From $500 to $2,500 granted to:
- media artists for presentations and professional development
- independent media arts critics and curators for research, professional development and presentation.
Deadline: Anytime.
City of Ottawa
The city’s Arts Funding program provides grants to individual artists for production and script development.
CREATION AND PRODUCTION FUNDING FOR INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS
- A Grants are for established professional artists: maximum award $5,500
- B Grants are for emerging professional artists: maximum award $4,000
A and B grants are awarded to established and emerging local artists of all disciplines and backgrounds, supporting the creation and production of new, original work or the completion of works in progress. Funding is awarded to individual professional artists residing in Ottawa in the disciplines of literary, performing, media and visual arts. Artists may apply for projects involving a collaboration of more than one artist.
Deadline: January, 2013 (date TBA).
Telefilm Canada
Telefilm Canada has several funding programs for independent media artists including development, low budget independent features, and screenwriting. Contact Telefilm Canada for the latest grant and deadline information.
Bravo!FACT
Bravo!FACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) has distributed tens of millions of dollars in grants for the production of thousands of shorts across Canada. Short films and videos produced with Bravo!FACT grants have been honoured with awards and screenings at festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance, the Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, and other prestigious festivals in New York, Japan, Argentina, Italy and throughout the world, as well as the Victory Ceremonies at the 2010 Olympics and in the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
The shorts cover a range of subject matter and styles. From sand animation to opera, from modern dance to short dramas – the variety is as endless as the creative talent in Canada. Both emerging and recognized filmmakers are encouraged to apply for grants.
Deadlines: Quarterly, in March, June, September, and December.
Corel Endowment Fund for the Arts Award
Presented by the Council for the Arts in Ottawa, the Corel award encourages evolution, innovation, creativity and excellence of individual artists working on new initiatives in all the arts disciplines in Ottawa and the National Capital Region, and supports projects with potential to significantly advance the individual’s art practice or have an impact on the community or the discipline(s) represented.
Deadline: Annual, in May.
Tools for Independent Media Artists
See funding section of Links page.
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