Guides and Resources

Lead by imagineNATIVE with support from the National Film Board of Canada, Canada Media Fund, Ontario Creates, Telefilm Canada, Creative BC and Inspirit Foundation, On-Screen Protocols and Pathways: A Media Production Guide To Working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities, Cultures, Concepts and Stories lays a framework to guide productions and funders in producing screen-based content with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities in Canada.

The Black Screen Office’s (BSO’s) vision is to provide Directives to everyone in the film, television and interactive digital media industries to help them commission, create and assess authentic content. The Directives, which come from the community of underrepresented members of the industry and general public who were consulted as part of the research, are a tool meant for the industry to use to educate themselves, develop strategies for change, and enact real, systemic and long-lasting transformation.

This report was developed by Archipel Research and Consulting Inc., in collaboration with the Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), as the final report for a national consultation process about Indigenous eligibility requirements for funding. This project intended to analyze and explore considerations for eligibility, including definitions, and criteria needed to identify Indigenous applicants for the purposes of Indigenous-specific funding and support, and to develop policy recommendations and a framework for Indigenous-specific funding. To do so, we connected with Indigenous industry professionals, cultural experts, traditional knowledge keepers, academics, artists, and media content creators from across Canada.

“Building Inclusive Networks in the Film and Television Industry” is a nation-wide qualitative study examining factors that contribute to the inclusion/exclusion of BIPOC women from industry networking events.

A report to collect race-based data to measure inequity. Finding that this was not possible, it became a call to the government to make this information more accessible and to formalize a new, safe way to collect data.