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Playback's Events Calendar - international, but Canadian focused Playback's Hot Sheet - current top films, TV shows and DVDs in Canada
Selected Entertainment & Industry Press (the inside scoop)
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Playback - Canada's leading broadcast and production journal
Broadcaster - Canada's broadcast magazine
Qui Fait Quoi - Major Quebec Film/TV Magazine
Globe and Mail - today's "Arts" section from national paper
Canada.com Entertainment - includes entertaiment news from cities across Canada
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Universal Currency Converter - How far will your production dollars go in Canada, today?
Traveling in Canada - Information from the U.S. State Department
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Producer's Resources (location, facilities, contact and talent info)
Ontario Media Development Corporation - producer's guide to Ontario's film and television industry
Commercial Production Association of Toronto - Why shoot your next commercial in Toronto?
British Columbia Film - One of Hollywood's favourite shooting locales
Reel West - promoting Western Canada's film, televison, and multimedia industry
BC Film Commission - location permits, British Columbia
Alberta Motion Pictures Industries Association - Canada's "Texas"
Alberta Film - Locations, production incentives and producer resources
Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association - from cities to praries to surreal landscapes
Manitoba Motion Picture Association - wide open, big, BIG sky country
Quebec Shooting Guide - helpful resource
SODEC - Societe de Developpement des Entreprises Culturelles
Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development - Rugged, rocky, and beautiful.
Film New Brunswick - Historic architecture and spectacular locations
Nova Scotia Film Development Corp. - shoot in Canada's beautiful East Coast
Yukon Film Commission - Canada's first snowfall, and last.
Studio Facilities Across Canada - compiled by Playback Magazine
Canadian "Spot" Productions Houses - specializing in commercials
Canadian Animation Houses - we're world famous!
Edna Talent Management - offers pictorial database of Canadian actors
Canadian Actors Online - not exhaustive, but helpful
CSC - Canadian Society of Cinematographers
Stunts Canada - country's largest association of professional stunt coordinators and performers
VOX TALENT - Canada's Non-Union Voiceover Talent Agency
Financing Related Info: "Show me the money!"
NOTE: International producers (by themselves) may not qualify for these funding resources, but CO-productions with Canadian producers & production companies often do. Government tax credits, received for hiring Canadian crews & talent, combined with favorable exchange on Canadian currency, saves $$$ on film and television productions.
Canadian Heritage - includes guidelines & forms for Canadian film-television production tax credits
Telefilm Canada - key funding source for many Canadian productions
Canadian Television Fund - application forms also available on Telefilm Web site
Independent Production Fund - finances and promotes Canadian independent production
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
National Funding Resources - as listed in Playback
Provincial Funding Resources - as listed in Playback
Regional Funding Resources - as listed in Playback
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Production and Distribution Companies
Canadian Indie Prodcos - compiled by Playback Magazine
Alliance-Atlantis Communications - Canada's largest film and television distributor
Corus Entertainment - changing the face of Canadian entertaiment
Fireworks Entertainment - Relic Hunter, Beastmaster, Queen of Swords, see a pattern?
National Film Board of Canada (NFB) - the award-winning public producer
Nelvana - internationally renowned for animated children's and family
Minds Eye Pictures - known for International co-productions
Stornoway Productions - movies, docs and digital channels
Cinar Films - big in children's fare
Sullivan Entertainment - best known for family-fare like Anne of Green Gables
Imax Corporation - The world's experts in BIG screen productions
S & S Productions - best known for the "Red Green Show", a Canadian comedy classic
Radical Sheep Productions - known for children's fare, like Big Comfy Couch
Super People Productions - consulting, development and directing services
Technical and Post Production Resources
Top Canadian Post Shops - as compiled by Playback
William F. White Ltd. - film, television, and theatrical equipment rentals, national locations
Finale Editworks - complete post-production management
Rainmaker Digital Pictures - lab, post, effects, new media, Vancouver and L.A.
CreativePOST - world standards conversions
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Legal Resources
Canadian Legal Expert Directory - entertainment law resources
CRTC - Canadian broadcast legislator
General Film-Television Resources
Rogers on the Web - Ted Rogers is to Canada what Ted Turner is to the U.S.
Shaw Communications - Canada's 2nd largest cableco.
COGECO - 2nd largest cableco in Ontario and Quebec
AC Nielsen - Nielsen Ratings
BBM - Bureau of Broadcast Measurement
Brunico Communications - Publisher of Canadian film & television production journals
Canadian Film Centre - founded by Norman Jewison
Canadian Movies Listed in the Internet Movie Data Base
Mandy's Film and Television Production Directory - includes links to Canadian resources, by territory
National & Regional Broadcasters
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) - Canada's national public broadcaster
Canadian Television Network (CTV) - national commercial network
Global Television Network - national commerical network
TVOntario - Ontario's educational authority and Emmy-award winning children's broadcaster
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Societe Radio-Canada (SRC) - CBC's French language counterpart
TVA Network - French language entertainment, information and public affairs programmming
Tele-Quebec - province's French-language educational television network
Knowledge Network - British Columbia's educational television service
A-Channel - Across Canada
ATV - Atlantic Television: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland
NTV - Newfoundland Television
National Specialty Channels
The Comedy Network - Who says Canadians aren't funny, eh?
Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN) - News, Movies, Game Shows, General Interest
Much Music - "The Nation's Music Station"
Bravo! - Canada's arts and entertainment channel
Vision TV - national "multi-faith" specialty channel
Crossroads Christian Communications - Christian Broadcast Ministries
CTS Television - Christian and family programming
YTV - national children's specialty channel
Teletoon - The Animation Station
Family Channel - Canada's counterpart (read vehicle) for the Disney Channel
TSN - The Sports Network
Space - The Imagination Station (Sci-Fi-arama)
Home & Garden Television Canada - There's no place like Home (or Garden)!
History Television Canada - Our version, eh?
Showcase - cultural arts and drama specialty channel
Life Network - national lifestyle specialty channel
Exploration Net - from Discovery Channel Canada
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The Weather Network - weather documentary, anyone?
NewsWorld Online - Canada's counterpart to CNN
CTV NewsNet - Canadian counterpart to CNN Headline News
Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) - features Canadian government proceedings, etc.
APTN - Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
The Canadian Shopping Channel - will that be Visa, or Mastercard?
New Media Broadcasting Leaders
SNAP Media - clients include CTV, Sony, CBC, HGTV, and Teletoon
Extend Media - creating interactive television content, clients include CTVSportsnet
Interactive Netcasting Systems (INSINC) - creators of www.mediaontap.com
Others
CanWest Global Communications - international Canadian-based broadcaster
CityTV - the first seed of the Moses Znaimer empire
Guilds, Unions, and Associations
Canadian Film and Television Production Association - important resource for producers
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television - includes Genie and Gemini award winners
Director's Guild of Canada - includes links to provincial counterparts
Writer's Guild of Canada - Latest news, information, and writer's links
ACTRA - Canadian Performers' Guild
Institute of Communications and Advertising - with links to other Canadian commercial production sites
Television Bureau of Canada - info about TV advertising in this country
CSC - Canadian Society of Cinematographers
MPTAC - Motion Picture Theatre Associations of Canada
Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB)
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council - what are YOUR standards?
Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA) - national lobby organization
Women in Film and Television Toronto - Building, advancing, and sustaining careers
Women in Film and Television Vancouver - ditto, West coast
Canadian Women in Communications - national focus
SOCAN - Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
National Screen Institute - oldest national Canadian training school for writers, producers, and directors
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