Singapore’s MediaCorp names fund recipients

Friday 04 Nov 2011
Six projects have been chosen to received pilot funding from MediaCorp’s S$5 million-dollar (US$3.95 million) Content Innovation Fund.

Each project will receive between S$15,000 and S$50,000 (US$11,800 and US$39,500).

The fund, which will be distributed over three years, will be used to support the development of the selected projects. These projects may then be commissioned for any of MediaCorp’s range of media platforms spanning television, radio, print, movies and digital new media.

Since the fund’s launch in June, over 500 proposals from the world over have been received.

Of the proposals which were received, 30 percent came from Australia, China, India, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the USA and the Philippines.

The selected projects are Play This Mystery (drama-cum-game show), Animal In Me (animation), The Potential (reality), Do It Or Else (sitcom), Just Search It (game show) and Channel News Kids, (infotainment).

For details on The Content Innovation Fund, browse mediacorp.sg/cif .