Pitch Deck & Treatment Design

Here is how the work lines up. Pitch decks for the Canadian market are graded against an exact stack of funders. Each has its own form, story and evidence needs. Telefilm Canada's English Market and French Market envelopes weight Canadian creative teams, delivery commitments and CAVCO eligibility (the 6/10 Canadian-content point system). Decks routed to Telefilm carry crew nationality breakdowns, distributor LOIs, and a clear statement of how the project meets the producer-content and key-creative thresholds.

Here is the breakdown. The Canada Media Fund (CMF) — split into Performance Envelope (English/French) and Convergent Stream — needs TV networks trigger commitments from CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV, Global, TVA, Bell Media or Corus, and the deck must show the trigger envelope size, the platform deliverables and the digital-parts plan that CMF's convergent rules need. SODEC governs the parallel Quebec funding track and expects French-language decks tuned to Quebec cultural-economy positioning, with a clear path to Quebec creative principals and Montreal/Quebec City spend.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Beyond the public funders, we build pitch frameworks for the major Canadian market events and the global co-production treaty network. TIFF Industry Conference (Toronto, September) draws US studios, streamers and sales agents and rewards decks heavy on package — director, cast, distributor, festival strategy. Hot Docs Forum (Toronto, May) — the largest documentary festival in North America — runs a pitched-forum format that needs a tightly structured 7-minute pitch with TV networks prospects pre-identified. Banff World Media Festival is the scripted-series equivalent for TV producers chasing co-production and TV networks meetings.

Here is how the picture comes together. Whistler Film Festival's Praxis pitch sessions and Fantasia Montreal's Frontières genre market round out the year. Our team also structures co-production-treaty decks for the 50+ countries Canada has bilateral agreements with. UK, France, Germany, Australia, Ireland, China — building the budget-share, creative-share and territorial-rights presentation that the relevant national film body (BFI, CNC, BBFI, Screen Australia, Screen Ireland) expects, with CAVCO certification framed against the partner country's equivalent. Decks ship in bilingual EN/FR for any project touching Quebec or federal francophone funding.