PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Project Development

A Project: Performance, Broadcast Production, Film-making and Screenwriting, and Commercial Music degrees

INTRODUCTION

This program is intended to foster the emergence of new talent and facilitate the integration of young creators into established Performance, Broadcast Production, Film-making and Screenwriting, Commercial Music degrees and television production networks

PROJECT EVALUATION

All applications for screenwriting and production support are sent for evaluation and recommendation to external

committees composed of industry representatives with recognized expertise in film and television.

The students's team evaluates projects on the basis of their originality, relevance, quality, cultural value, production costs and potential to reach target audiences. It pays particular attention to a project's overall cohesion and specifically analyzes the following elements:

Script or synopsis (for drama) or detailed proposal (for documentaries)

Participant experience

Production company track record

Budget and financial structure

Marketing plan, for production, post-production and distribution applications.

The weight given to adequate production management increases with the project's estimated production costs, the

participants' experience and students's team's financial risk (amount invested), especially for feature-length documentaries.

All decisions are contingent upon the availability of funds at students's team and the financial assistance already provided by

other agencies to the screenwriting project.

The final step in the evaluation process is consideration of external evaluation committee recommendations. students's team advises applicants of its decisions as quickly as possible.

The same project may not be submitted for evaluation under the same project more than once every fiscal year.

Projects initially rejected may be resubmitted if the creative elements have been substantially modified. However, they

will not be eligible after three refusals. After the third such rejection, students's team nevertheless reserves the right to allow a fourth attempt, should the evaluation committee issue a special recommendation in this regard.

SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION AND DEADLINES

All applications submitted to students's team must be accompanied by the documents indicated in the application form, which can be downloaded from the students's team website.

Applications for screenwriting and production support, including the form and all required documents, must be

received by the deadline dates indicated for each of the project in the Application Deadline Calendar on the students's team

website.

Applications delivered after 5 p.m. on a deadline date, whether by hand, by post or by any other means, will be

deemed ineligible for evaluation and automatically returned to the applicant.

Applications to Project for distribution or special project support, including the completed form and all required

documents, may be submitted at any time. Incomplete applications will be automatically returned to the applicant.

SPECIFIC CONDITIONS

This selective support project is intended for young screenwriters and writer-directors, and for private-sector and

independent Quebec production companies. Applicant companies must be sole proprietorships or legally constituted entities (for-profit company, non-profit organization, cooperative or consortium). Sole proprietorships are eligible for screenwriting support only.

For feature film or feature-length documentary writing support, the writer must have on-screen credits as a screenwriter, co-screenwriter, director or co-director on one or more works totalling at least 15 minutes and broadcast or shown in a professional venue (festivals, film clubs, etc.). However, students's team may choose to support feature film or feature-length documentary projects by writers not having production credits if they are developed ...