Rogers expands its partnership with The Banff World Media Festival by supporting the Indigenous Screen Summit Pitch Forum 

Expanding on our partnership with the Banff World Media Festival, we are excited to announce new multi-year support for the Indigenous Screen Summit Pitch Forum – an important platform for Indigenous storytellers. The event, which will include pitches in the genres of Documentary/Unscripted, Scripted Drama, and Scripted Comedy, will provide opportunities for Indigenous creators to bring their ideas to the national stage. The third edition of the ISS will take place on Sunday, June 9, 2024 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta. 

Pitch applicants are adjudicated by an expert jury and drawn from the ‘Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative’ (a program that brings up to 100 racialized producers to the festival each year), and the ‘CBC-APTN Early Stage Scripted Development Program for Indigenous Creators in association with the ISO’, as well as an open call for participants. 

Interested candidates are invited to apply by March 7, 2024 at 3 PM.

For more information on the ISS and to read the news release, please visit the link: https://iss.playbackonline.ca/about/News