Production and post-production costs including artist and personnel fees, travel, insurance, visual and music rights, and equipment rentals are covered under this program.

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. The program has two categories:

• Emerging Artist: You have completed at least one independent media work and are not currently enrolled in a formal media arts education program.
• Mid-Career & Established Artist: You have completed at least two previous media works independently. Mid-Career artists have a history of independent media arts practice of at least 5 years. Established artists have a history of independent media arts practice of at least 15 years.