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Program directory · Telefilm Canada

Funding the production of Canadian content

Department
Telefilm Canada
Program code
BSQ00 (CFDC)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

Telefilm supports the development and production of Canadian feature films through funding programs. Our programs fund and support, among other things, Canadian production companies that have achieved commercial, cultural and industrial success (including those with emerging talent), international coproduction projects, diversity in its many forms (including, among other things, gender parity in key creative positions, variety of genres, budget size, regions across the country, points of view, Indigenous) and innovative projects. Funding provided allows Canadian companies to produce content in Canada and reinforces the Canadian cultural ecosystem. Telefilm also assesses and recommends projects that could be recognized by the Minister of Canadian Heritage as audiovisual coproductions governed by official coproduction treaties.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25Funding the production of Canadian content 2018-19: $70MFunding the production of Canadian content 2019-20: $77.4MFunding the production of Canadian content 2020-21: $92.1MFunding the production of Canadian content 2021-22: $91.2MFunding the production of Canadian content 2022-23: $106MFunding the production of Canadian content 2023-24: $107MFunding the production of Canadian content 2024-25: $105MFunding the production of Canadian content
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Funding the production of Canadian contentThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$649M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

No significant changes detected.

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $70M2018-192019-20: $77.4M2019-202020-21: $92.1M2020-212021-22: $91.2M2021-222022-23: $106M2022-232023-24: $107M2023-242024-25: $105M2024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19—$70M
2019-20—$77.4M
2020-21—$92.1M
2021-22—$91.2M
2022-23—$106M
2023-24—$107M
2024-25—$105M

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.