As a Partner of Choice, Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation dedicated to the success of Canada’s audiovisual industry, fostering access and excellence by delivering programs that support cultural resonance and audience engagement. With a lens of equity, inclusivity and sustainability, Telefilm bolsters dynamic companies and a range of creative talent at home and around the world. Telefilm also makes recommendations regarding the certification of audiovisual co-production treaties to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, and administers the programs of the Canada Media Fund. Launched in 2012, the Talent Fund raises private donations which principally support emerging talent.

Ontario Creates is an agency of the provincial government whose mandate is to be a catalyst for economic development, investment and collaboration in Ontario’s creative industries including the music, book, magazine, film, television and interactive digital media sectors, both domestically and internationally.
Through targeted programs and services, support for innovation, and by leveraging public and private partnerships, Ontario Creates builds the capacity and competitiveness of the Province’s creative industries to deliver award-winning content that is enjoyed by audiences across Ontario and around the world.

Creative BC brings a strategic and integrated approach to the growth and development of British Columbia’s creative sector. The independent agency was created and supported by the provincial government to sustain and help grow B.C.’s creative industries, which are defined as those generating original storytelling content for mass production, global distribution, and consumption: book and magazine publishing, interactive digital media, motion picture, and music and sound recording.

Niv Fichman is a veteran independent film and television producer and founder of Rhombus Media. Over the past 45 years, Rhombus projects have been screened all over the world. Fichman has produced feature films by renowned international directors Denis Villeneuve, Olivier Assayas, Fernando Meirelles, Atom Egoyan, François Girard, and Don McKellar. Notable past films include The Red Violin, Last Night, and Enemy. On April 14, 2024, the seven-part series, The Sympathizer, a Rhombus Media co-production with A24, premiered on HBO. The series is directed by the renowned Park Chan-wook, Fernando Meirelles, and Marc Munden and stars Hoa Xuande, Sandra Oh, and Robert Downey Jr.

Anthony Shim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and then immigrated to Vancouver, Canada with his family in the early 1990s. After his mother enrolled him in a high school drama class with the hopes of helping him overcome his shyness and fear of public speaking, Anthony quickly discovered his passion for storytelling and pursued a career in film. His latest feature film Riceboy Sleeps (2022) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was awarded the prestigious Platform Prize, the Flash Forward Audience Award at Busan International Film Festival, along with several others.