Film Production
American Film Companies Discovering The Potential of The Canadian Landscapes
The locations that American cinema favours seem to vary with every generation. Once upon a time it was Europe that everybody wanted to shoot in, then Italy and even the Middle East, now it’s Canada’s turn in the spot light.
Canada has in fact been used in some popular films, including Lucky Number Slevin which stared Josh Hartnett, The Terminal, and the soon to be continued X-Men films. Believe it or not in the last ten years alone, more than 2000 American productions (both TV and film) have taken place in Canada, and according to most experts in the industry, even more than that will happen in the next five.
Recently director Dominic Sena was asked about the motivations for shooting his latest film ‘White Out’ in Canada. The plot is that a US Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months. Sena suggested that the biggest motivation for using Canada was that they could find terrain similar to that found in Antarctica, but close enough to civilization to make filming possible. Many producers share this like of the convenience of shooting in Canada, where they can still speak the same language as the locals and the systems for gaining shooting permissions are very similar, yet the settings are completely different to America.
Other industry experts have suggested that aside from the fact film crews like Canada holidays, many films are shot there because it is so close to America and so easily accessible, making it the perfect place to shoot film in fresh and new surroundings that have not previously been seen by the American public. Additionally, it is cheaper to shoot here due to the weaker Canadian dollar. In fact many scenes that could be shot on American soil, such as Alaska cruises footage, is actually shot in Canada due to the reduced production costs. If you fancy being part of the next big Canadian-shot film or just fancy Toronto holidays check out Canadian Sky.
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