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What Is Canada's Oldest Film Production Company? The Competing Claims Explained
The Canadian Bioscope Company was founded in Halifax in 1912, made one of Canada's earliest commercial feature films and disappeared during the First World War.
What Was the First Canadian Film to Win an Oscar?
The first Canadian film to win an Oscar was Churchill’s Island, a 1941 documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
What Was the First Canadian Television Show?
Canada's first regularly operating television station, CBFT in Montréal, officially began service on September 6, 1952
What Was Canada's First Science-Fiction Film?
Canada was making films about astronomy, imagined technology and other unusual possibilities long before Julian Roffman released The Mask in 1961.
Freddie Highmore and David Shore’s I’m Not Here to Hurt You Lists B.C. Production Dates
Freddie Highmore and Canadian television creator David Shore’s new Crave drama, I’m Not Here to Hurt You, has a British Columbia production schedule.
Who Were Canada's First Filmmakers?
On September 3, 1897, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that two men had returned to the city after photographing Manitoba's harvest.
What Makes a Film an International Co-Production? How Canada’s Treaty Rules Work
Laetitia Colombani’s film The Braid had producers in France and Canada. In a May 2022 funding announcement, Telefilm Canada named French companies Moana Films and Curiosa Films alongside Canada’s Forum Films.
The History of Independent Filmmaking in Canada
In 1913, the Halifax-based Canadian Bioscope Company filmed Evangeline in Nova Scotia, adapting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the Acadian expulsion.
What Is an Independent Film in Canada?
Denis Villeneuve's Incendies had one distributor in Canada and another in the United States.
Why Is It So Hard to See Canadian Movies in Canadian Theatres?
A Canadian film can be listed as a theatrical release even when there are few opportunities to buy a ticket. In a new study of Ontario independent cinemas, exhibitors reported deciding whether to book Canadian films they often had never heard of
Who Actually Owns a Canadian TV Show?
An independent Canadian television production company may own copyright in a finished series even when a broadcaster commissions it and a streaming service carries it overseas.
How Do Canadian Movies Get Funded?
An independent Canadian film can have a finished screenplay, an experienced producer and a detailed budget and still be a long way from starting production.
Why Do Canadian TV Shows Disappear From Streaming Services?
Canadian television series disappear from streaming services when licensing agreements expire, distribution rights change hands or broadcasters decide to keep programs for their own platforms.
What Was the First Movie Ever Made in Canada?
If “movie” means a feature-length dramatic film produced in Canada, the answer is Evangeline, filmed in Nova Scotia in 1913 and released in 1914.
Why Are So Many American Movies and TV Shows Filmed in Canada?
In HBO’s The Last of Us, downtown Calgary stands in for part of post-apocalyptic Boston, Fort Macleod represents Austin, Texas, and the Alberta Legislature Building becomes the Massachusetts State House.
Dan and Riya look beyond Beverly Valley with first feature film and two comedy series
Toronto-based Beverly Valley Productions is developing its first feature film and two comedy series, with all three projects set outside the fictional world that brought YouTube creators Daniel Kipnis and Riya Malik their audience.
CMF says $345.5M in funding spurred $1.93B in Canadian screen production
The Canada Media Fund says $345.5 million in program funding supported 1,248 audiovisual and interactive digital media projects and 103 industry initiatives in 2025–2026, helping generate $1.93 billion in Canadian production volume.
Canadian sci-fi Part 1: The 2010s cluster
On Friday, June 19, 2015, Space premiered Killjoys at 9 p.m. The second episode of Dark Matter, which had debuted a week earlier, followed at 10.
Why Netflix Is Putting Canada On Screen
Cat Cahill’s Gilbert Girls romance novels take place in a Colorado mountain valley, where young women find work along a newly built railroad and at the fictional Crest Stone Hotel.
Could rescuing cancelled American sci-fi help Canadian producers grow?
Canada already knows how to make science fiction. Over the past 15 years, Canadian producers and broadcasters have put Orphan Black, Killjoys, Dark Matter and Continuum on television, alongside genre series such as Lost Girl and Bitten.