Business

Professional Development : TV Distribution 101: The A-Z Guide to Content Distribution Across Broadcast and Streaming Platforms

This three half-day information series has been developed to answer questions regarding the general process of television distribution.

Registration Open:
October 24, 2025

Scholarship Open:
October 24, 2025

Scholarship Deadline:
November 9, 2025

Registration Deadline:
November 19, 2025

Mentorship: Universal Pictures Mentorship

Are you an emerging Canadian content producer who is passionate about production and development, with a focus on scripted broadcast content? This is the perfect opportunity for you!

Closed for applications

Professional Development : Executive Leadership in Media Certificate Program

The C-suite awaits you! The Executive Leadership in Media Certificate (previously our Media Leadership Program) is a proven and successful professional development intensive designed to enhance your strategic leadership skills. This program is recommended for screen-based professionals with a minimum of ten years of management or entrepreneurial experience in the media industry, with a desire to develop their leadership skills. The Executive Leadership in Media Certificate offers a unique immersive learning experience that combines business school teaching from Schulich MBA faculty with best practices from high-level industry executives. Schulich School of Business is consistently ranked as one of the top business schools in the world.

Running again in 2027

Scholarships and Bursarie: Banff World Media Festival Scholarship

Are you an emerging Canadian content producer who is passionate about production and development, with a focus on scripted broadcast content? This is the perfect opportunity for you!

Open for Applications Spring 2026

Mentorship: CBC Business of Broadcasting Mentorship

Are you an emerging Canadian content producer who is passionate about production and development, with a focus on scripted broadcast content? This is the perfect opportunity for you!

Program on hold for 2025. Check back for upcoming dates.

Professional Development : Business of Budgeting

This workshop not only teaches you how to build a budget, but also the creative considerations involved. The Business of Budgeting workshop is a two-day workshop that imparts beginner-to-intermediate level knowledge into the process of creating a production budget for content in the Canadian market. Through the use of instruction and exercises, key topics of focus include (but are not limited to): understanding the breakdown,understanding the account codes and line-by-line dissection of the necessary elements, accommodating for contingencies. Participants will also visit budget templates from a variety of funders (i.e. Ontario Creates, CMF, Bell Fund, IPF, etc.)