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The Transmedia Zone is a one-of-a-kind entertainment incubator that cultivates a vibrant community, fostering innovation and creative exploration in storytelling and entertainment. We support the next wave of storytellers, creators, and entrepreneurs, who possess a distinct voice and a fervent drive to craft innovative media experiences.

Whether it’s embracing emerging technology, reinterpreting conventional storytelling formats, expanding audience outreach, or establishing fresh platforms to bolster creativity - the TZ serves as a dynamic conductor of change, propelling the evolution of storytelling in the ever-expanding and always changing landscape of entertainment media. 

TZ Membership

This era of the entertainment industry, isn’t easy to navigate and it’s easy to get stuck on how to make your goals a reality.

TZ helps you rethink the entertainment & media industry from the napkin stage, to launch and beyond.

Whether you’re just starting out or rethinking your current strategy, we want to help creatives, storytellers & entrepreneurs grow a new confident creative business mindset - in a way that makes sense to your project and business. For some of you creativity feels hard, for others business can feel like a dirty word. TZ bridges the best of all worlds, and shows you new ways to succeed.

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Interested in joining? Applications are now open! Fill out the form below and be invited to one of our Pitch Days.

More information in the link below.

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All TMU students can now join our programming and be part of our community. Come to events, learn from guest speakers and gain mentorship and industry mapping from the TZ team! 

The Transmedia Zone is a community focused incubator for innovation and reative experimentation in storytelling across entertainment media platforms. 

The TZ supports storytellers, creators, artists, and innovators with a strong unique and authentic point of view, and a clear mission and deserie to develop new and exciting media experiences. At TZ, innovation takes many forms and in our context, it can mean: 

  • Using new platforms
  • Remixing or reimagining traditional storytelling formats
  • Reaching new audiences
  • Creating new platforms to support storytelling

Streamers

Digital Creators / E-Sports (Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, etc.)

Podcasts

Story Centred Tech (apps/platforms/products)

TV/Web Series

Film

Journalism/Live Journalism

Video Games

AR/VR/XR

Interactive Theatre Experiences

Innovation in Music

Something yet to be invented that you're making right now...


Is it moving forward the art of storytelling and entertainment? Then, yes.

TZ is a place for the next wave of entertainment media and storytelling projects. To us, "innovative" doesn't just mean technological advances.

Are you serving an underrepresented community?

Are you taking a new approach?

Are you making it easier to bring new and important stories to the forefront?

And if you're a changemaker in the music industry, you'll be a great fit for our Music Den.

TZ Membership:

  • Year round
  • Fill out your application and get invited to our bi-monthly pitch day for an interview/presentation

TZ Summer:

  • Our 8 week personalized bootcamp bringing the most innovative entertainment projects and founders together

TZ Student League:

  • The way TMU storytellers and media changemakers can collaborate and join the TZ, Music Den, and Innovation Studio community

NO.

Our incubator is for all Canadian storytellers. For our bespoke zone learning approach to be the most effective, we need folks from all ages, backgrounds, education levels, and viewpoints. 

Downtown Toronto Work & Meeting Space

Mentorship

Community Support

Funding Workshops

Access to Talent

Radio/Podcasting Studios

Market Insight and Research

Entrepreneurship 101 Sessions

Communication & Media Training

Brand Storytelling

Discounted Conferences

Publicity

Also:

Dedicated Desks, Board Rooms, and a Creative Storytelling Meeting Room

Plus, access to free resources from TMU, such as: Radio Studios, the Equipment Distribution Centre, Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk, and more!

“I just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed the past two years being in the Transmedia Zone. It literally kept me sane during the trash fire of 2020. And I'm really grateful for the thoughtfulness, genius and empathy”

TZ Member

CONTACT US

 General Inquiries: jessie.lee@torontomu.ca

MAILING ADDRESS

Transmedia Zone
110 Bond Street
Toronto, Ontario M5B 1X8
M5B 1X8