In a year when Canada’s screen industry has been holding its breath, the federal government’s new budget landed with the kind of impact usually reserved for a festival-night world premiere. The Canadian Media Producers Association
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Tax Shelter Era: When Canadian Cinema Got Popular
“There are now many Canadian films, but there aren’t too many good ones are there?” The above quote was spoken in 1980 by then-Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau at a black-tie film industry event. Whereas
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SK NDP: Use Soundstage for Filmmaking
(Via WireService.ca) Saskatchewan has its own provincial soundstage in Regina for film productions. But since 2012, business in the film industry has been so slow it’s barely come near the soundstage, due to the tax
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