Funding for creative exports

Explore a range of funding programs available through Canadian Heritage and other organizations that can provide support as you expand globally. Be sure to check if your province or municipality offers funding programs for your sector.

For more resources or guidance on government export programs, contact our Creative Export Navigator Service.

Canadian Heritage and its portfolio organizations

Creative Export Canada

The Creative Export Canada program provides funding for projects that help Canada’s creative industries expand their international reach and increase their export revenues. Through funding, the program helps creative businesses and organizations build capacity and prepare for exporting, expand their sales into international markets and develop international business networks.

Canada Music Fund

The Canada Music Fund ensures that a diversity of Canadian music artists connect with audiences everywhere. The program supports a wide range of artists and entrepreneurs who create, publish, produce and market Canadian music, and the organizations that represent them.

The program also helps Canadian music entrepreneurs and artists position themselves in a global and digital marketplace through activities such as international touring and showcasing of artists, marketing, business development, buyers' missions to Canada and professional bootcamps.

Canada Book Fund

The Canada Book Fund ensures access to a diverse range of Canadian-authored books nationally and internationally, by fostering a strong publishing industry that produces and markets these books. Financial support is available to book publishers and organizations to participate in exploratory trade missions and major books events that will raise the profile of Canadian authors and books internationally.

Telefilm Canada

Telefilm Canada’s International Programs support the promotion and marketing of Canadian film productions globally.

The International Promotion Program offers funding for Canadian productions selected by international festivals or invited to international coproduction forums.
The Distribution Support Stream helps market Canadian films released abroad.

Telefilm also manages international coproduction treaties and contributes to two major film funds:

Eurimages, which supports independent filmmaking and cross-border collaboration.
New Dawn, which promotes diversity and inclusivity in the global film industry.

Canada Council for the Arts

The Canada Council for the Arts' Arts Across Canada and Abroad program supports artists, arts professionals, groups and organizations to enhance international exposure, undertake artistic exploration or exchanges with international colleagues, and nurture new and existing art markets in a global context.

Global Affairs Canada

CanExport

The CanExport program provides direct financial support to Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and national industry associations in Canada seeking to develop new export opportunities, particularly in high-growth priority markets and sectors. CanExport is open to all sectors, including the creative industries.

Third-party organizations

Canada Media Fund

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) fosters, promotes and finances Canadian audiovisual content across all platforms, including broadcasting and interactive digital media (such as video games), and helps to share it with the world.

The CMF’s International Incentives program encourages international coproduction. Projects with an international scope may also be eligible for funding under many of the CMF’s other programs.

Indigenous Screen Office

The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) supports Indigenous talent, communities and companies in the development, production and marketing of screen-based content. ISO helps build a strong Indigenous screen sector and workforce, while amplifying Indigenous stories in Canada on the international stage.

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2025-11-17

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