Last week, a jury of nine internationally renowned jury members involved in the digital media sector, visited Toronto to give their insights on innovation, as well as to help evaluate Canadian digital media projects that have applied for production assistance from the Canada Media Fund’s (CMF) Experimental Stream. They will also help assess the capabilities and experience of the production and creative teams in terms of their ability to deliver their proposed projects.
The jury was made up of Canadian and international industry experts including: Wendy Bernfeld (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Sylvain Carle (San Francisco, USA); Suzanne Lortie (Montreal, Canada); Siobhan O’Flynn (Toronto, Canada); Sylvain Perron (Montreal, Canada); Adam Sigel (Los Angeles, USA); Michelle Sklar (Calgary, Canada); Patrice Slupowski (Paris, France); and, Rogerio Soares (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
The main goal of the CMF Experimental Stream is to foster the creation and development of innovative and interactive digital media content such as casual and console games, apps, software and more. The CMF plans on announcing the recipients of production funding support under the experimental stream later this summer.