Designed to assist and fast-track applicants applying to Ontario Creates Interactive Digital Media Fund programs. Let us help you submit a winning application!

• Recognize the key elements of business & marketing plans
• Deepen your understanding of business operations
• Learn more about budgeting and financing for IDM projects
• Enhance your project pitch

The Ontario Creates IDM Fund Futures Program is a six-part program that provides potential funding applicants (companies and individuals) with the skills required to fast-track their knowledge acquisition and enhance the competitiveness of their company when applying to the Ontario Creates Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Fund Concept Definition and Production programs.

The curriculum focuses on application requirements and deliverables, in an effort to provide less-experienced applicants with the knowledge and resources necessary to submit a complete and well-crafted funding application.

Teams must be prepared to have at least one member available to attend all six parts of this intensive program.

More details on Ontario Creates: ontariocreates.ca

Non-Members of WebSeries Canada: $50
WebSeries Canada Members: Free

Applications are for the 2023 cohort are OPENING SOON!

Thank you so much to WebSeries Canada for facilitating this training program. It has assisted my new production company ‘BetterHalf Films’ in meeting the eligibility requirements. With such project-focused consultations, support, and partnerships, WSC is bridging the gap between new web series creators and Canadian funding agencies. Congratulations to everyone on the team for creating this space!   – Gursimran Datla, Founder, BetterHalf Films.

For emerging creators, understanding the ins and outs of the Canadian entertainment industry can feel pretty overwhelming. The IDM: Futures Forward program is an incredibly valuable opportunity for early-career artists to better understand the industry at large while defining their own projects and companies through workshops with like-minded people. Having participated in many programs, workshops, and classes over the years this program has been the most effective in opening doors which led to establishing my production company, I’m Chips Productions, and receiving development funding for my first web series.
– Sydney Boniface, Founder, I’m Chips Productions

I just wanted to say thank you so much for allowing me to participate in the Futures Forward program. This process has been life changing and helped me to once again find that passion for my art and love for film, I very much appreciate the fact that you took the chance and allowed me the opportunity to tell a story that I truly believe in. I would not have been able to understand and write these submissions without the invaluable lessons that I learned during your program.

– J. Lee Williams