Justin Cutler, Ontario Film Commissioner, Ontario Creates
Justin Cutler joined Ontario Creates as Ontario Film Commissioner in 2015. As Film Commissioner, Justin is responsible for promoting Ontario at home and abroad as a jurisdiction of choice for film and television production. Justin’s team facilitates capacity building opportunities, particularly in the areas of studio infrastructure expansion, workforce development and environmental sustainability.
Albert Shin, producer, writer, director, Timelapse Pictures
Albert Shin co-founded the Toronto-based production company Timelapse Pictures in 2008, which has since produced several award-winning features including
In Her Place, The Waiting Room and
The Stone Speakers. He recently co-wrote and directed
KFTV Talk: Filming in Ontario, Canada
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ABC/Darko Sikman Big Sky shot in British Columbia. “B.C. is seen as a safe place to bet on,” says Zach Lipovsky, a rep for
the province with Canada’s Directors Guild.
Producers, crews and VFX houses up north are running at full speed, surpassing pre-shutdown levels.
As Hollywood travels a long, bumpy road to recovery from pandemic lockdowns, Canada is raising its production game. On local soundstages and location sets, agile Canadian crews and talent have managed to keep cameras rolling through a combination of resourcefulness, careful planning and sheer will.
In fact, the swift, industrywide embrace of strict safety protocols and social distancing has led to so much activity for the country s locations sector that productions have surpassed pre-pandemic levels.
Interiors for Netflix’s Locke & Key are shot at Cinespace Studios in Toronto.
With no end in sight for the production surge north of the border, facilities from Vancouver to Toronto are scrambling to meet demand.
Shooting in Canada has become so busy, the country s production sector is running out of room. Welcome to the Canadian space race, where the need for more shooting facilities is driving a building boom from coast to coast. The construction fever is especially high in and around Toronto and Vancouver, with earthmovers and jackhammers a common sight as developers scramble to meet the seemingly endless demand for international film and TV shoots.
Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario.
Cameras rolling locally on Netflix s Locke & Key and Apple TV+ s See is still permitted as the province declares a state of emergency.
Ontario has decided to leave Hollywood film and TV shoots on local soundstages untouched as the province declares a state of emergency amid a resurgent coronavirus outbreak. As further lockdown measures were announced by Premier (Doug) Ford today on January 12, film and television productions and post-production projects will continue to operate with no changes to the previously reported guidelines presented in the province-wide shutdown currently taking place, the Toronto Film Office said in a statement obtained by
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