# Telefilm Canada Feature Film Fund: Budgets and Production Financing Requirements (February 2024)

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- categories: T04 · tags: level:advanced, kind:budget-rules, jurisdiction:canada, task:budgeting, task:production-finance, format:pdf
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:22:22.457Z
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Source: https://telefilm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02_Budget-production-financing-requirements.pdf

Pairs with docs--telefilm-ca--accounting-and-reporting-requirements-2024.

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  "usefulness": "Two-page Telefilm rule sheet for production budgets and financing plans: standard budget form required, producer-fee and overhead caps, 8% contingency floor, completion protection and E&O insurance provisions, delivery/versioning provisions, final cost report obligation, deferral and sponsorship-commission limits.",
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    "The sheet is titled for the Canada Feature Film Fund; Telefilm's Production Program page (read via fetch summary) now lists this document and also a 'Standard Production Budget Template' reported as updated June 29, 2026. The template (xlsx) was not downloaded.",
    "'B+C portions' refers to sections of Telefilm's budget form; the section definitions are in the template, which was not opened.",
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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] A fully itemized budget on Telefilm's standard budget form is required with each application. · locator: A: General Principles Related to Budgets · source: https://telefilm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02_Budget-production-financing-requirements.pdf
- [sourced_fact] Producer fees and corporate overhead are each capped at 10% of the B+C portions (15% for documentary projects with budgets under 2.5 million $). · locator: A, first bullet · source: https://telefilm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02_Budget-production-financing-requirements.pdf
- [sourced_fact] The budget must include a contingency of at least 8% of B+C. · locator: A · source: https://telefilm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02_Budget-production-financing-requirements.pdf
- [sourced_fact] Funded productions must deliver a final cost report certified under the Accounting and Reporting Requirements Policy. · locator: A · source: https://telefilm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02_Budget-production-financing-requirements.pdf
- [sourced_fact] The budget for every production should include an item for that purpose. · locator: A · source: https://telefilm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02_Budget-production-financing-requirements.pdf
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

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- documentation: license=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · No licence or reuse terms located; telefilm.ca terms page returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch. · evidence: https://telefilm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02_Budget-production-financing-requirements.pdf

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