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CTV Television’s Bravo!FACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) has distributed millions of dollars in grants for the production of over one thousand shorts across Canada. Short films and videos produced with Bravo!FACT grants have been honoured with awards and screenings at festivals including the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance, the Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, and other prestigious festivals in New York, Japan, Argentina, Italy and throughout the world..
The shorts cover a range of subject matter and styles. Sand animation to opera; modern dance to short dramas - the variety is as endless as the creative talent in Canada. Emerging and recognized filmmakers are encouraged to apply for grants.
Bravo!FACT's objectives are to:
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stimulate public interest in Canadian excellence in the arts |
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encourage the creation of new ways of presenting the arts on television |
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increase public recognition of Canadian artists and their works |
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provide professional opportunities for film and video-makers |
"If there's one thing that has made Bravo! exceptional, it is the programme of shorts that has been sponsored by the station since its inception...Bravo!FACT is uniquely oriented towards the creation, by Canadians, of performance art and avant garde shorts. What's lovely about them is their purity and non-commercial nature."
-Marc Glassman, POV, (winter 2003)
“...what Bravo!FACT has done is harness the power of television to promote Canadian artists and to develop the genre of arts video.”
- Dance on Camera Journal, New York City (January 2000)
“There are marvelous little things on Bravo!, if you know when to look - short films and videos made for Bravo!FACT…”
- John Doyle, Globe and Mail (June 2001)
Bravo!FACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) was established in 1995 and is funded by Bravo!, CTVglobemedia’s Canadian national cable arts channel.
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