Equity and Emerging Development Program │Creative BC

Applications will be accepted from either individuals or production companies. Key Roles (Writer, Director, Producer) must be either/both from a systemically excluded group or an emerging filmmaker.

Individuals applying must:

• Be a B.C. resident – either a Canadian citizen or a Permanent Resident – who has resided in British Columbia for at least 200 of the 365 days prior to the application, and
• Have filed income tax returns in B.C. for the taxation year prior to the application.
• To apply as an equity seeking filmmaker, you must actively self-declare within one or more of our systemically excluded groups (Indigenous, Black, People of Colour, LGBTQ2S+, Women, Non-binary or people with disabilities) during the application process;
• To apply as an emerging filmmaker, you cannot have more than one professional credit in the Key Roles you are applying for as: director, writer and/or producer.

Companies applying must:

• Be a B.C. resident – either a Canadian citizen or a Permanent Resident – who has resided in British Columbia for at least 200 of the 365 days prior to the application, and
• Have filed income tax returns in B.C. for the taxation year prior to the application.
• Be an audiovisual company incorporated in British Columbia or Canada with its head office in British Columbia.
• The primary owner / majority common voting shareholder(s) of the applicant company must meet the individual criteria.