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Creative Saskatchewan — Feature Film & TV Production Grant
Creative Saskatchewan
Maximum Funding
Up to $5,000,000
Continuous intake until funding exhausted (2026-27 opened April 1, 2026)
Difficulty
Moderate
Payment
Reimbursement
Trend
Growing
First-Timers
Friendly ✓
Co-Funding
40%
Creative Saskatchewan — Feature Film & TV Production Grant provides Up to $5,000,000 per project (30% Saskatchewan Stream / 25% Service Production Stream; bonuses up to 10% additional; combined max 40%/35%). Up to $5,000,000 per project (25-30% of eligible Saskatchewan expenditures plus bonuses) for film and television production in Saskatchewan. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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Program Description
Up to $5,000,000 per project (25-30% of eligible Saskatchewan expenditures plus bonuses) for film and television production in Saskatchewan. SK Stream offers 30% for SK-owned productions; Service Production Stream offers 25%. Bonuses available for frequent filming (10%), rural locations (5%), and SK post-production (5%). A third, follow-on Apprenticeship Stream — open only to approved Saskatchewan/Service Production Stream projects — funds eligible non-resident mentor salaries at the same percentage the project received in its FFTV award (capped at 40%), and counts toward the $5,000,000 project maximum.
Eligibility Requirements
- SK Stream: Saskatchewan-owned production company (30% base rate)
- Service Production Stream: production company must be incorporated in Saskatchewan (or federally incorporated and registered in Saskatchewan), with an SK head office and substantial SK-resident ownership control — same corporate test as SK Stream, just no copyright-ownership requirement (25% base rate)
- Must incur eligible Saskatchewan expenditures
- Bonuses: 10% frequent filming, 5% rural, 5% SK post-production
- Feature Film productions must be feature-length (minimum 75 minutes)
- Requires a market trigger/third-party interest worth at least 20% of eligible production costs, on top of the fair-market-value distribution agreement itself
- At submission, must show at least 50% confirmed financing (70% if the project budget exceeds $1 million)
- Production company must not hold, or be non-arm's-length to, a CRTC broadcasting licence
- Ineligible genres: news/current-events/weather-or-market-report programming; community-cable programming; talk shows; sports; fund-soliciting productions; pornography; government-contracted or SK-only-distributed advertising; advertising under $100,000 budget; industrial/institutional productions for internal audiences; non-documentary with over 25% stock footage; software/programming applications; video distribution platforms or aggregators
- Apprenticeship Stream (follow-on, not an alternative): open only after approval for the Saskatchewan or Service Production Stream; funds eligible non-resident mentor salaries at the same % rate as the project's FFTV award (capped at 40%); requires ScreenSask + union/guild approval; apply no later than 2 weeks before principal photography (window opens up to 8 weeks before pre-production); counts toward the $5M project cap
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Difficulty
Moderate
Competition
Moderate
First-Timer
Friendly
Funding Details
- Amount
- Up to $5,000,000 per project (30% Saskatchewan Stream / 25% Service Production Stream; bonuses up to 10% additional; combined max 40%/35%)
- Type
- Grant
- Level
- Provincial
- Co-Funding
- Up to 40% of eligible costs
- Deadline
- Continuous intake until funding exhausted (2026-27 opened April 1, 2026)
Program Scorecard
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Deadline
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Approval
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Insider TipStack the bonuses strategically — filming in rural Saskatchewan (5%), doing post-production in-province (5%), and qualifying for the Saskatchewan Production Volume Bonus (10%) can lift a Saskatchewan Stream project from 30% to the 40% cap (Service Production: 25% to 35% cap) — not 50%.
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Application Steps
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Secure market trigger or distribution agreement This is a hard eligibility prerequisite. You must have a broadcaster licence, distribution agreement, or equivalent market commitment at fair market value before applying. The program does not fund development-stage projects.
Required Documents 8
✓ Application form (stream-specific)
✓ Production budget with Saskatchewan expenditure breakdown
Eligible Expenses 13
Ineligible Expenses 7
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Funding Stack Strategy
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Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)
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| Creative Saskatchewan — Feature Film ... | Up to $5,000,000 | Moderate | Reimbursement | Continuous intake until... |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Can I apply if I'm not incorporated?
Being a Canadian corporation isn't enough — the applicant company must be incorporated in Saskatchewan (or federally incorporated and registered in Saskatchewan), have its head office in Saskatchewan, be majority-owned by Saskatchewan residents, and have filed a Saskatchewan income tax return. Note: Creative Saskatchewan's own FFTV documents disagree on whether an individual may apply at all (the web guidelines allow 'an individual or a corporation'; the PDF version lists only corporate criteria) — confirm your specific situation with a Program Advisor before assuming sole-proprietor status works.
What's the typical award size?
Most awarded projects range from $200,000 to $2 million. The $5M max is rare; only 1-2 projects per year reach that threshold.
When do decisions get made?
Applications reviewed continuously as received. Decisions typically take 4-6 weeks from the application acceptance date (SK-majority-photography productions) — allow longer for complex files. Funds are committed as they're allocated in the annual budget.
Do I need to pay upfront?
Yes — payment is reimbursement only. You must pay all eligible expenses first, then submit receipts for reimbursement after production.
Why do applications fail?
Most fail due to insufficient Saskatchewan expenditures (less than 25% of total costs) or incomplete financing plans showing no other funding sources.
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