QEPC Producer Mentorship Program

We are looking for emerging and mid-career producers working on English television projects in Quebec. If you are based in Quebec and are currently working on or developing a project you would like to produce, and would like some guidance from some of the most experienced English-language producers and production companies, this program could be for you. Individuals from underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

You, along with a small group of mentees, will get online information sessions on topics which may include finance strategy & funding applications; creative (feedback on a project, development strategies, and pitching advice, etc.); business affairs (understanding how to set up a production) production (on-set experience) and more. Depending on availability, you will also have access to private one-on-one consultation with a mentor of your choice.

Your mentors will be coming from some of the most experienced and established production companies, many of which make up our QEPC board of directors. We’ll be approaching and selecting mentors that fit the needs of the selected mentees to provide counsel and advise you on production matters in group sessions and individually, where possible.

2024 marks the third year the QEPC will be offering the producer mentorship program, which has been made possible by the generous support of the Canadian Media Fund. Previous mentees received guidance from mentors from:

Apartment 11

Established in 2000, producers of Children’s Scripted & Unscripted Programming (Big Top Academy, Rank the Prank, Mystery Hunters, and many more).

Art et essai

Montreal based production company that explores the imagination through films, series, and virtual reality, that take both fictional and documentary approaches

Band With Pictures

Montreal-based feature film production company

Cineflix Media

Independent production house & distributor of Factual and Scripted Series/MOW’s with a 5,500+ hour catalogue (Coroner, Property Brothers, Wynonna Earp, Mayday, among many others).

Compass Productions

A film production company with experience in international partnerships.

EyeSteel Film

Documentary production company and distributor (Angry Inuk, Up the Yangtze, Inside Lara Roxx, and many more).

Galafilm

A Montreal-based production company working in documentaries, television dramas, youth programming, and feature films.

Muse

Production company with a number of international coproductions, prime time TV series and a catalogue of projects with over 300 award nominations.

PMA Productions

Working in unscripted and scripted television, films, and digital media programming for nearly twenty years.

Poutine Studios

Boutique production company working in both scripted & unscripted programming, as well as offering production services.

Rezolution

An Aboriginal-owned film & television production company

From June to December 2024, we expect you to be available up to 10hrs per month for the group sessions and one-on-one consultations.