Canadian Independent Film & Video Fund Information

The CIFVF strives to have the best board members available to provide knowledgeable policy and operational advice and corporate governance. Its Board members are therefore active members of the Canadian industry and, as such, are also eligible to apply to the Fund. To ensure that there is no potential conflict of interest, no CIFVF Board member sits on the jury that makes all decisions on the selection of projects for funding. The independent jury's decisions are final and are not ratified by the CIFVF Board of Directors. Applications are assessed by a jury of peers, composed of one producer, one distributor and one end-user. There are three juries for Film and Video projects: one for French language projects and two for English language projects. The CIFVF selects members for each jury from suggestions proposed by industry associations and relevant communities across the country. New juries are selected for each Deadline, and are chosen with due care and attention to ensure that none of the individual members are involved in any application submitted for evaluation at that Deadline. Names of jury members are kept confidential and are released by the CIFVF only at the end of the financial year in its Annual Report. The CIFVF Board of Directors has established two general principles governing the commitment of funding, and also sets the eligibility and selection criteria against which applications are evaluated. These criteria are subject to periodic review.