Ontario Arts Council has opened applications for its Media Artists Creation Projects 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about the opportunity and apply for it.
About Ontario Arts Council Media Artists Creation Projects
The program supports individual professional Ontario-based media artists/directors working with film, video, audio, digital, new media, video and electronic games, and virtual reality as independent artist-controlled art forms in the production and post-production phases of their projects.
Benefits of Ontario Arts Council Media Artists Creation Projects
- Emerging: $10,000 maximum
- Mid-Career & Established: $40,000 maximum
Important: Total project budgets must not exceed:
- $125,000 for Emerging applications
- $300,000 for Mid-Career & Established applications
Ontario Arts Council Media Artists Creation Projects Requirements
Eligible applicants
Directors/principal media artists who:
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- reside in Ontario
- have completed the requisite number of independent works for their applicant type (emerging, mid-career or established – see Definitions)
- are taking their own initiative and making their own decisions about the work to be created
- work with or without a producer
- hold copyright over the proposed work
- Contracts with producers or other funders must not require that the artist give up such control, even if they are arranged after confirmation of OAC support.
Ineligible applicants
- producers
- individuals who have only contributed to media art projects that were directed or led by someone else (for example, screenwriters)
- secondary and undergraduate students (see note below for graduate students)
- artists who have been awarded a grant in the Visual Artists Creation Projects program in the same year
- artists who have applied to Visual Artists Creation Projects program in the same year and are still waiting for their results
Important:
- Collaborators (for example, co-director) named in one application cannot be the applicant or collaborator on another application submitted to this program at the same deadline.
- Applicants who have previously received a Media Artists grant in the Mid-Career & Established category cannot apply in the Emerging category.
Application Date and Process
Before applying, be sure to:
Your application will include:
- basic information about the project
- your answers to application questions
- a project budget and a detailed budget
- audiovisual artistic examples:
- Emerging: one example
- Mid-Career: two examples
- Established: two examples
- support documents:
- résumé/bio, script, storyboards, installation schematic, design documents, visual and sound treatment, and letters of agreement, as appropriate for your project
- if you are a graduate student, you must include a letter from your school’s department head confirming that your project is not part of your academic program
Complete instructions and requirements are in the application in Nova.
Application Deadline
17 March, 2026
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