Broadcaster Envelope Program – Diverse Languages 2025 [Canada Only] – YOA

Deadline: October 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Broadcaster Envelope Program – Diverse Languages 2025. This program is designed to help productions that replicate Canadian range by funding tasks in languages aside from English, French, or Indigenous-Canadian languages.

The Broadcaster Envelope Program: Diverse Languages allocates funding to Canadian broadcasters primarily based on their historical past of supporting Canadian programming in numerous languages. While broadcasters obtain the funding envelope, the precise funds are paid on to eligible candidates in keeping with a set cost schedule. This initiative ensures that Canadian audiences have entry to a wider vary of tales and views, selling cultural richness and inclusion within the media panorama.

Benefits

• Direct Funding: Eligible candidates obtain funding instantly, supporting the creation and manufacturing of linear content material in numerous languages.
• Flexibility: The most CMF contribution is now extra versatile, with the earlier greenback cap eliminated. This permits candidates to construction their financing to greatest go well with their undertaking’s wants.
• Support for All Genres: Funding is on the market for any eligible style of linear content material, together with drama, documentary, youngsters & youth, and selection & performing arts.
• Alternative Access: Broadcasters with out a direct envelope allocation can nonetheless take part by the Alternative Access choice, topic to obtainable funds
• Promoting Diversity: The program actively encourages the creation of content material that broadens the illustration of Canada’s multicultural communities on display screen.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Diverse Languages Program, candidates should meet the next standards:

• Be Canadian-controlled as outlined in sections 26 to twenty-eight of the Investment Canada Act.
• Have their head workplace in Canada.
• Be in good standing with all related expertise and trade associations and guilds.
• Affirm and attest that the undertaking submitted for funding complies with the CMF’s Narrative Positioning Policy.
• The authentic language of manufacturing should be a language aside from English, French, or an Indigenous Canadian language. Exceptions could also be thought of if a Canadian broadcaster contributes a portion of their English or French envelope allocation, however the undertaking’s major language should stay a various language.
• Projects should be closed-captioned within the authentic language of manufacturing in the event that they comprise narrative, dialogue, or lyrics. Exceptions could also be made for tasks concentrating on youngsters below 5, tasks in Indigenous languages that don’t use the Roman alphabet, and stay-to-air productions.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Broadcaster Envelope Program – Diverse Languages.