An independent platform for producers deciding whether — and where — to shoot in Canada. Not a government resource, not a film commission, and not pretending to be neutral.
This site is operated by a Canadian service production company. If you shoot in Canada and we work on it, we get paid. If we refer you to another service producer, we may earn a referral fee — and that's marked on the listing.
That's a conflict of interest, so we'd rather state it than have you find it. The alternative — a site that looks like neutral industry media while quietly selling — gets discovered quickly in an industry this small, and costs exactly the credibility the site exists to build.
Incentive rates change several times a year and most published comparisons don't keep up. Crew availability is word of mouth. Stage capacity is a series of phone calls. Which Canadian city convincingly doubles for somewhere else is institutional knowledge held by maybe a few hundred people.
All of that is knowable. It's just nobody's full-time job to keep it current in one place. So: primary-sourced incentive data with a public changelog, production tracking built from public records, honest crew-depth reporting with published methodology, and a location library backed by productions that actually shot there.
It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any government body, film commission, union or guild. Where we reference their published material we link to it directly so you can check us.
It also isn't tax, legal or immigration advice. The calculator is a modelling tool. Before you commit a budget, talk to a Canadian production accountant — we can introduce you to one.