Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) is accepting new program proposals for AMI-tv. Please take care to read the submission process guidelines below.
Submission Process
1) When creating your proposal document, please consider some of the following questions beforehand:
- Why is this program a good fit for AMI-tv?
- Who is the target audience?
- What is the program length and how many episodes will there be?
- Who are the key cast and crew members?
- Will there be an accompanying digital media component? If yes, please describe it.
- What value do the program and/or digital media component bring to the target audience?
- What is the proposed budget for the program and digital media component?
- What is your production timeline?
2) Download the Program Proposal Submission Release Form (Release Form) provided below. You will need to complete this form and submit it with your proposal.
3) Your proposal must be provided in a Microsoft Word or accessible PDF format. Once complete, attach your accessible proposal document(s) and the signed Release Form to an email, and send it to: submissions@ami.ca.
By sending an email with your proposal to submissions@ami.ca you agree to the terms and conditions as set out below in AMI’s Policy Concerning Unsolicited Submissions.
All submissions will be acknowledged with an automatic email response confirming your submission was successfully delivered. We review all submissions on a regular basis and will try our best to get back to you within 60 days.
Policy Concerning Unsolicited Submissions
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) and/or its subsidiaries, parent, affiliates and/or related entities (collectively, “Company”, “us” or “our”), wishes to inform you of our company policy regarding the acceptance, review and/or consideration of materials, including without limitation, ideas, suggestions, notes, scripts, story lines, text, screenplays, articles, formats, treatments, fiction, proposals, videos, marketing or promotional plans, program formats, literary material, videos, audiovisual works, musical compositions, characters, drawings, artwork, concepts and/or other information and/or materials in any form whatsoever that are not submitted via the Original Programming Proposal Submission process.
Our policy does not allow us to accept, review or consider, and we do not knowingly accept, review or consider, any Unsolicited Submission(s). DO NOT SEND US ANY UNSOLICITED SUBMISSION(S), AS IT IS OUR COMPANY POLICY TO DELETE, DESTROY OR RETURN ANY AND ALL UNSOLICITED SUBMISSION(S) IMMEDIATELY AND AUTOMATICALLY WITHOUT REVIEWING THEM, whether sent to us by mail, electronic transmission, personal delivery or otherwise, by you or any other person or entity.
Company seeks to avoid possible future misunderstandings and disputes when products and materials developed, by our own employees or licensees, or at our request, might seem to others to be similar to their own creative work and/or Unsolicited Submission(s). At all times, Company has many products, materials and projects in various stages of development, and the results of these endeavours may, be similar or identical to your own creative work and/or Unsolicited Submission(s).
Our policy is that no Unsolicited Submission(s) will be forwarded to, or reviewed by, any Company staff. Accordingly, any similarity between any Unsolicited Submission(s) and any elements in any Company’s creative work including without limitation any film, television series, commercial, podcast, branded content, story, character, title or concept, is purely coincidental.
If, despite our request, you ignore this policy and submit any Unsolicited Submission(s) to Company, you agree to assign to Company all rights of every nature and description, in perpetuity, throughout the universe in and to such
Unsolicited Submission(s). As such, such Unsolicited Submission(s) will be deemed, and will remain, the property of Company and may be used, copied, sublicensed, adapted, transmitted, distributed, publicly performed, published, displayed or deleted as we see fit, and Company will exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights in and to any Unsolicited Submission(s) of any kind and nature throughout the universe in perpetuity, and we and we will be entitled to unrestricted use of such Unsolicited Submission(s) for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, by all means and in all media now or hereafter known or devised, without compensation to you and/or any other sender of such Unsolicited Submission(s).
You agree that you are not entitled to any compensation, credit or notice whatsoever in connection with any Unsolicited Submission(s), and you further agree that by sending Unsolicited Submission(s) you waive the right to make any claim against Company relating to such Unsolicited Submission(s), including without limitation, unfair competition, copyright infringement, breach of implied contract or breach of confidentiality. No Unsolicited Submission(s) will be subject to any obligation of confidence on our part and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Unsolicited Submission(s).