We used to be Hollywood North, but we're losing to Ontario and Quebec, and the Liberals, who're supposed to be business-friendly, aren't going to offer competitive tax credits. If they're business-friendly ...
We're losing our film industry.
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We don't have a liberal government in BC. They are Socred/BC Reform - wolves in sheep's clothing.
Do you think Van. may have priced itself out of the market.?
Just asking. I know nothing of the film industry.
Out of all the TV shows and movie shot in Vancouver, how many actually say it's Vancouver and not some US city.
BC probably cut the tax credits.
Because they'll take the filming elsewhere.
I remember the movie about our home town hero Rocky Marciano being filmed in Canada. It was hilarious seeing Rocky (the actor actually) coming off the baseball field in "Brockton" Massachusetts and the majestic mountains in the background.
That is a s bad as the Starbucks commercial with people flying snowflake kites while wearing parkas in a park with flowers in bloom in the background.
The issue sits with the low American Dollar. In the film boom the Canadian dollar was sitting around 67 cents USD? Why would film-makers want to come North when they are now pretty much at par?
If it needs tax credits, then it's not a particularly efficient industry. I'm Ontarian, and I say id our film industry needs a subsidy, you can have it. I'd rather have an industry that can stand on its own.
What? Actors and directors, etc. aren't paid enough so need a subsidy?
I know dozens of people who used to work in that business and a few who still do- it's a temporary operation run by some of the flakiest people you could imagine and most of the jobs pay poorly.
So it's not something to build an economy on and having a movie shooting on your street is akin to a plague of locusts.
So it's not something to build an economy on and having a movie shooting on your street is akin to a plague of locusts.
Meanwhile they can't afford to fund elementary and secondary schools on reserves adequately. Shameful, really.
Cut funding for all TV including CBC except maybe essential services and educational services and that's it. If we can't even afford adequate funding for basic educaiton on reserves, let's get our priorities straight.