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Tetty Harbor, New Foundland / Courtesy of Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Commission
ONTARIO/TORONTO According to manager of Film Ontario Media Development Corporation, the region is “quite busy right now, thanks to several big productions, such as Paramount’s The Love Guru, Grey Gardens (HBO), The Gathering (Warner TV/Sony) and New Line Cinema’s Time Traveler’s Wife. But it’s hard to tell what next year will bring. There are so many factors that come into play. Toronto’s industry provides an excellent overall package with a huge infrastructure, deep talent pool – both crew and cast, and facilities that put it in a world-class league.” As Zuchlinski notes, Ontario boasts a wide variety of architectural styles, geographic features, and is home to over 4.3 million people of diverse cultural backgrounds. As a result, stories set in New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Vienna, Warsaw, Tokyo, and even Siberia, Shanghai and Tehran, have been convincingly shot in the Greater Toronto area.
The province’s film commission works hard to attract and feature film and television productions, they offer services ranging from preproduction research and location scouting to accessibility of their digital location database of over 7,200 digital locations. Thanks to its location on the north shore of Lake Ontario, Toronto is one of the most popular filming destinations in North America, and its studios and stages offer great deals and facilities for productions. Toronto Film Studios (TFS), Canada’s largest studio facility with 17 sound stages and over 360,000 square feet of production space, also has Canada’s largest collection of standing, ready-to-shoot sets, airplane sets, a New York apartment, a brownstone townhouse, and a New York-style police station.
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Iain Blair
James Thompson
Dyana Carmella
