108+ verified Canadian film and doc funding programs. One calendar. Custom alerts before every deadline hits. Built and maintained by working Canadian producers, not a software company. Used on the matistacreative.com slate.
The CMF announces deadlines on PDFs. Bell Fund posts them in board-meeting minutes. Telefilm changes the dates without telling anyone. You rebuild a tracking spreadsheet every September and it is out of date by October.
Telefilm.ca, CMF.com, Creative BC, BC Arts, Hot Docs, NFB, CMPA, Bell, BSO, Knowledge, APTN. Each site is a maze. Your dev exec is the only one who knows the calendar. When they leave, the knowledge goes with them.
BC has a Distant Location bonus that adds 12% to your tax credit. Quebec has a minority co-pro premium. Bell Fund quietly opens a Slate Development window twice a year. You miss them because nobody put them in front of you when it mattered.
Built by Matista Creative, used on our own slate (Becoming John Horse, Building Belonging, the Black Seminole docuseries). We file 30+ applications a year, the calendar is how we never miss.
Every federal fund (Telefilm, CMF, Bell Fund, Canada Council). Every provincial agency (Creative BC, BC Arts, Ontario Arts, SODEC). Every major festival and pitch forum (Hot Docs, imagineNATIVE, Banff). Stream-specific deadlines for documentary, scripted, animation, XR.
Annual programs auto-roll forward each year. One-time events drop off. The calendar is current the week you open it, three years from now.
Email or SMS, 7 / 14 / 30 days before any starred deadline. You decide which programs matter. Calendar quiets to nothing if you are not applying that month.
Idea → Drafting → Submitted → Won / Lost. Notes per program. Your producing partner sees the slate at a glance. Nothing slips between meetings.
Four questions: citizenship, region, format, budget. Calendar filters to the programs your project actually qualifies for. Stop reading 50-page guidelines for funds you cannot apply to.
iCal feed: every starred deadline lives in your Google or Apple Calendar. Update once on Matista, propagates everywhere. Your laptop, your phone, your producing partner.
| Free | Pro | Studio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadlines visible | Next 30 days | Full 365 days | Full 365 days |
| Custom email + SMS alerts | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Calendar export (iCal / Google) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full Sheet notes per program | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application status tracker | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Eligibility wizard | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2026 Funding Playbook PDF (40 pages, $79 value) | — | included | included |
| Tax credit calculator (CPTC + provincial) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team seats + shared watchlists | — | 1 seat | 3 seats |
| Weekly Monday digest email | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Direct Slack support from Matista team | — | — | ✓ |
All plans include a 30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime, no questions. Founders pricing is locked for life when you sign up before seat 100.
First 100 members. Locked at $9/mo for the life of your subscription. Goes up to $19/mo after the 100th signup.
Annual plan. Equivalent to $8.25/mo. Stop thinking about it for a year. Best value for working producers.
Try it for a month. Cancel anytime. Standard pricing after the 100 founders seats are gone.
Everything in Pro plus 3 admin seats, shared watchlists, assignable deadlines, direct Slack support. For prod cos and film schools running multi-project slates.
Used to keep a spreadsheet that lived in seventeen places. Now I check one calendar. The CMF deadline last month I would have missed.
Producer, BC indie shingle
Pro member since launch
The weekly Monday digest is now part of my routine. Saved my Telefilm Talent to Watch slot by three days.
Director, Toronto
Founders member
My students stopped asking me what to apply to. They just look at the calendar. Best $99 I have ever spent on curriculum.
Faculty, Canadian film school
Studio member
Composite quotes from Matista Creative member feedback during the 2026 closed beta. Individual results vary.
Sign up. Use it for 30 days. If The Funding Calendar does not help you find at least one funding program you did not know existed, or does not save you at least one hour of deadline tracking, reply to your welcome email with the word "refund" and we send it back. No exit survey. No questions. The risk is on us.
Yes. The 108 programs are maintained on a Google Sheet that Matista updates as funders publish changes. Annual programs auto-roll forward each year. We mark estimated dates as estimates. If a date is wrong, you can flag it directly inside the app and we correct within 48 hours.
Funder websites are designed for one program. You need to read all of them at once and compare. The Funding Calendar shows every program side by side, sorted by deadline, filtered to your eligibility. The math says it takes a producer 40+ hours a year to maintain a private version of this. Our subscribers get the same answer in 30 seconds.
First 100 paying members get the price locked for the life of their subscription. We need the early signal that this is worth subscribing to. You get the win for taking the early bet. After seat 100, the founders price disappears.
Yes. One click from your account page. No retention dance, no exit survey, no negotiation. You also have 30 days from signup to get a full refund, no questions.
Not yet. The core product is Canadian film and doc funding. US (Sundance, ITVS, NEA) and UK (BFI, BBC Storyville) are on the roadmap and will be included free for Pro and Studio members when they launch.
Matista Creative is Christopher Bautista's BC-based film studio. We have an active slate (Becoming John Horse, Building Belonging, the Black Seminole docuseries, multiple branded content engagements). We file 30+ funding applications a year. The Funding Calendar is the internal tool we built for ourselves and now share with other Canadian filmmakers. Full studio at matistacreative.com.
Then the next step is the matistacreative.com/services lane: investor decks, broadcaster pitches, grant applications, Consulting Producer retainers. Every Funding Calendar Pro member gets a free 30-minute strategy call with Christopher to discuss whether a build engagement fits.
Spend the next twelve minutes signing up, or spend the next twelve months wondering which funding window you missed. Founders pricing locks at $9/mo for life when you sign up before the hundredth seat.
30-day refund · Cancel anytime · Founders price locked for life