Kickstart with Canva is a partnership between Canva and Tribeca to empower emerging creators across entertainment. The program provides training for creators to showcase and create buzz around their work via Canva's all-in-one visual communication platform through in-depth training workshops. Select projects receive additional funding and development to meaningfully advance their projects through kickstart award funding.
Combining Canva’s visual communication platform and Tribeca’s expertise in professional and artistic development, the program will consist of both in-person and virtual workshop sessions in the key design areas that entertainment creators need. Canva empowers over 225 million people globally every month - from all backgrounds and industries - to bring their ideas to life visually. Creating dedicated support for the people driving creativity within entertainment is a natural extension of Canva’s mission to empower anyone to design anything, anywhere.
Kickstart with Canva culminates with an opportunity to enter to win one of five US $20,000 Kickstart Awards that, along with support from Tribeca Studios, will help them further their development.
Each year the Kickstart with Canva program awards five winning films with kickstart awards and mentorship towards advancing their projects. The winners are also featured at a showcase event at the following Tribeca Festival to present their projects to an industry audience.
Learn more about the Winners.
The 2025 program will launch in June alongside the Tribeca Festival with an in-person design workshop, followed by virtual sessions in Summer 2025, hosted by Canva reps and designers. We are calling on all emerging independent creators - writers, directors, producers - working across traditional film, TV and immersive storytelling to join us.
Please see The Tribeca and Kickstart with Canva Contest Rules & Regulations here.
All workshop attendees will be granted a free 6-month Canva Pro subscription*. Creators that attend at least two sessions will be eligible to apply for a kickstart award in August 2025. To apply you must be based in the U.S. and have completed at least one writing, directing or producing project of any length.
The workshop sessions will be led by experts in both design and entertainment and will cover topics aimed to skill creators on creating dynamic and memorable pitch decks, marketing materials and design assets that will set your project up for success.
If you’re interested in attending the in-person and/or virtual sessions, please sign up to our mailing list here.
For more questions, please contact kickstartwithcanva@tribecafilm.com
*If workshop attendees already have an existing subscription to Canva Pro (whether yearly or monthly) the complementary subscription can only be applied at the expiry of their existing subscription period.