A globally competitive centre for production, Canada’s film and television production industry has boomed over the last decade: but with success comes repercussions. The encouragement of foreign location shooting in the Canadian film and television production industry has caused barriers for Canadian producers and creators to carry out domestic productions, further hindering the development of Canada’s media identity in film and television sectors as a result. The appealing tax incentive for foreign producers, most notably the U.S., is a major catalyst in increasing industry activity. While the presence of U.S. productions increases opportunities for Canadian workers to get essential industry experience, this notion is driven by the fact that
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productions. From a creative and cultural perspective, the generally high barrier to use the country’s high quality production facilities is deterring when foreign location shooting is being prioritized. Foreign location shooting may be great for the economy, but the encouragement sends an underlying message to Canadians that U.S. content more attractive and easier to obtain than Canadian content. This is a conflict of interest for the Canadian film and television production industry: If developing Canada’s creative and cultural identity is so …show more content…
The fact that the government is increasingly supporting foreign location shooting as it generates more money is alarming. By looking at the negative effects of foreign location shooting, Canada’s film and television production industry has a real romance versus realism issue: should the industry support a higher generation of income for the government or work to support and develop Canada’s media identity? As the industry has proven to be stable for the last couple of years, now is an integral time to implement change in the film and television production industry structure so that Canadian productions can access production spaces, resources, and workers: Canada needs to not only be competitive in its production industry, but with its content
productions. From a creative and cultural perspective, the generally high barrier to use the country’s high quality production facilities is deterring when foreign location shooting is being prioritized. Foreign location shooting may be great for the economy, but the encouragement sends an underlying message to Canadians that U.S. content more attractive and easier to obtain than Canadian content. This is a conflict of interest for the Canadian film and television production industry: If developing Canada’s creative and cultural identity is so …show more content…
The fact that the government is increasingly supporting foreign location shooting as it generates more money is alarming. By looking at the negative effects of foreign location shooting, Canada’s film and television production industry has a real romance versus realism issue: should the industry support a higher generation of income for the government or work to support and develop Canada’s media identity? As the industry has proven to be stable for the last couple of years, now is an integral time to implement change in the film and television production industry structure so that Canadian productions can access production spaces, resources, and workers: Canada needs to not only be competitive in its production industry, but with its content