Deadline: December 13
Open to residents of BC, Yukon and Northwest Territories
Prepare to pitch for development funds and a development deal for your project. Sell your project idea at prestigious festival markets like Hot Docs International Documentary Festival* and beyond! Six emerging and high-potential filmmakers will be selected for a rigorous and intimate market-preparation course where they’ll hone their project pitches and materials to prepare for festivals.
Emerging filmmakers will learn to pitch for development funds by meeting key industry mentors at each session such as broadcasters, distributors, and story and trailer editing consultants. They will be supported to workshop their pitch and encouraged to apply to festival markets like Hot Docs International Documentary Festival and beyond!
These sessions will be run online via Zoom for the 2025 edition to ensure we include filmmakers from all across BC, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
While the program is open to all races and ethnicities, we encourage individuals self-identifying as Black, Indigenous, a person of colour, and/or LGBTQ+ to apply to the Breakthrough Program. This helps to increase participation for emerging film creators from underrepresented communities. Our selection process will be solely based on the strength of the application.
