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Telefilm Canada
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1984-
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Telefilm Canada is a Crown Corporation of the federal government. Its mandate is to support the development and promotion of television programs and feature films by the Canadian private sector. Telefilm is neither a producer nor a distributor and it is not equipped with a production studio; instead, it acts primarily as a banker and deals principally with independent Canadian producers. To this end, Telefilm invests over $100 million. Until 1984, Telefilm Canada was known as the Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC). The establishment of the Canadian Broadcast Program Development Fund in July 1983 dramatically shifted the CFDC's priorities from feature films to television programming. To reflect this shift in investment priorities the CFDC was renamed Telefilm Canada in February 1984.
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- English