Canadian Heritage committee  A wide array in what sense? Do you mean high-budget to low-budget?

Canadian Heritage committee  We have three campuses in Toronto. Our largest one, in the west end where Sarah will be filming her third project, is our Kipling studio campus. It has a mix of large facilities and small facilities. So yes, we can attract a wide array of projects. Denis Villeneuve himself came

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. Because the vast majority of our clients are in television, and because our clients are very successful and are typically renewed season to season, they'll leave their sets up in the studios during that two- or three-month time period during which they're waiting for renewal

Canadian Heritage committee  Unfortunately, the way it is right now.... Instead of highlighting the fact that they get less equitable time, I would say that there are fewer feature films being produced in general. The volume is down. This was triggered by the Hollywood majors trimming their slates. Because s

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't necessarily disagree at all, but I'd be open to a discussion about what defines Canadian content, simply because there are too many people in this industry who are finding that they're not being supported. Co-production, as Sarah mentioned, is an excellent way to get more

Canadian Heritage committee  At the risk of sounding repetitive, Telefilm has quite a bit to do in that regard, helping to modify, streamline their system of delivering funds to film producers. They have to make sure that they catch the little fish that are getting through the net. Some good young clients

Canadian Heritage committee  I consulted a number of my producer clients before coming here today, so I could speak intelligently on all of the issues, including ones that I don't deal with on a day-to-day basis, namely the financing and production of film. The general consensus was that if low-budget produc

Canadian Heritage committee  Unfortunately, it will have a negative impact on the industry. We are already lobbying the provincial government to give some retroactivity to productions that were already under way. Given that the vast number of projects in Ontario are episodic, these TV producers have budgeted

Canadian Heritage committee  Sure.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to share with you today our company's experience with the Canadian feature film industry. If this industry can be simplistically separated into production, distribution, and exhibition, it is the production space tha