Canada's film industry slows down
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 เม.ย. 2023
- Budget cuts, a changing media landscape and upcoming negotiations,
are just some issues that are part of a slowdown in B.C.'s film industry.
As Maryse Zeidler reports, it's leaving some workers wondering where their next paycheck will come from.
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I was living in Alberta and encountered a 'slow down' in projects in the Oilfields and Special Waste Treatment CenterI was working on.
It disrupts your life.
I wish people in the film industry would still have work but with Discovery buying WB led to the cancelling of many wasteful and dead if not dying franchises. Its about the number of productions in the end. Productions need to have good writing a good showrunners that understand streaming and bingeing to increase success in BC. They also have to understand that shows have their natural ends.
Work is booming in Ottawa right now, which is a nice change. I worked as a set dresser for a few years and gave up trying to make it work and left back in the fall. That's the number 1 reason why I left, the work just isn't consistent enough, especially if you have a family and a mortgage...some of the best years of my life, but I was unemployed more than I was working.
Been in the industry since 2013, IATSE 891 member and all the shimmy. Left during the pandemic, got into healthcare went back got school got good benefits and never looked back. it sucks for all we pay in dues, getting membership and taxes there's still NO stable benefits. And if you break it down after gross and all the time you're off, you make as much as as an average 60-70k worker who works full time except they sleep more. I miss crafty and on the on set location with cool action but i def dont miss the decorators/ designer or nepo baby who dresses like yoko ono (why do they all wear large off white canvas shirts that are wrinkled and smell like moth and prosecco) wearing a crystal quartz neckalce or turquoise they got while roasting their chest like red peppers in mexico and walk into set and move ONE chachke with a hand while holding their lactose, gluten and sugar free artigiano in the other thinking they just pulled king arthurs sword out of the stone. The industry has gone downhill and with more AI being pushed in, WB cutbacks, its only gonna get worse. Good Riddance!
Miss that "Golden Age" of TV syndication (late 80s-early 2000s), when there were tons of non-network action and sci-fi shows on the air, and I swear all of them were shot in Vancouver!!! (Well, there were a few out of Toronto and Montreal, but...) I'm sure more work will return to BC, with all that content coming down the streaming pipeline! ❤ from 🇺🇸 !!!
I hope so! I am interested in working in the industry. Hopefully it gets more busy in the next few years
Film industry are chaotic hours
I’ll be leaving BC soon it’s unbelievable and unbearable. Canada altogether! C YA
The worst part is that both IATSE and TEAMSTER 155 keep hiring new employees informing them of more incoming productions when they have been steadily decreasing. Every couple of months they hire a bunch of new employees with the majority leaving after a few short months due to lack of work. They purposely do this so they can line their pockets with their monthly hall fees and control the number of employees becoming full-time members. They are merely reaping what they have sown.
Yah I worked many year's for Iatse in Toronto as a driver the works not consistent enough so I went to the city instead that work should be treated as a good part time gig the problem is when people try to make it full time
But if your just a permit I don't think you have to pay fess
Yup. Two years ago I was paying $65 per quarter then I was paying $100 per quarter and I only worked maybe 2 union shows a year. I finished up a job in North Bay in the fall and decided I wanted out. That's pretty much the situation in Ottawa right now...they just keep taking on more and more people with a promise of work and then they never get to work...yet still paying dues. Majority of the people working in Ottawa don't have alot of onset experience, and in North Bay half my art team had never worked on a movie before...
How’s the industry now in dec 2023?
It's unfortunate that we have to deal with this now.
*High Canadian housing costs impact everything.*
Well the shows filmed in BC have terrible writing and direction so those programs have been rightfully cancelled
So weird, considering all the amazing diversity and the industry is still a bust. It's almost like the film industry was created and maintained by a majority white production crew.
It’s always slow in winter.
It’s April now lol. Things suaully pick up mid feb. this is pilot season and it’s really slow for what usually is very busy.
No work for the permittees since last November.
Yah that's no surprise not sure why she complained about that
@@thezackseven wow in Bc or Toronto?
Atlanta.
Last movie I left my cosy nest to see in a dirty crowded “Theater “
was Schindler’s List.
My snacks at home are much better.
❤❤❤
Well, 30 years later, theaters are not the same. More space between rows. Premium seats are available if you want to splurge. The experience is totally different as well: Atmos sound and digital picture in 4K or 8K. Oh, and last few times I've been, theaters are cleaned between viewings.
@@blairzettl3933
Big screen, better snacks,
Better every thing right at home.
No parking , just relaxing in my pajamas as soon as I get home. Millions of DVDS still to watch. Classics to cartoons!
Bring a snack for sharing.
@@ellecampbell3271 Who wants to stay cooped up in the house all the time though?
@@ALuimes
Nobody is staying cooped up . Not wasting time driving somewhere to watch a movie, unless it’s a summer night and Dusk to Dawn, all four Planet of the Apes is showing at the Drive-In.
Tailgating with the BBQ and playing on the swings until the Previews start.
$10 bucks a carload.
But Cineplex!!!???
Lmfao!
Never again !
Bad news.
With more AI coming in, lots of tech and cgi jobs will be done by bots therefore it will lead to thousands of job cuts.
Good because our film industry sucks
Big talking film crews with their flashy nonsense in the unemployment line. Good
I call bs. Every other Hollywood interview I've watched.the actors say they have filming set in BC for upcoming projects. I have multiple renters in the industry and they are doing fine.
You said it..HOLLYWOOD as in CALIFORNIA as in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! Different country, different local, different jurisdictions and bigger tax credits!! IATSE 891 member here: More AI is being pushed in, WB cutbacks and the way future streaming is changing is causing an inevitable major shift. Your renters have some what savings , ei, bank of mom and dad and probably a sugar baby fund that keeping them afloat. Welcome to Film!!
The film industry has been and is always crying. For as long as I have resided here in BC, they whine.
there are so many more tv shows and movies compared to 10 years ago, its insane. So if you cant find something then thats you
Jesus single mom of 4…. Has she not heard of birth control
*You sound like Jonathan Swift in his “Modest Proposal,” who suggested that the babies of the poor be fattened up and exported to be eaten by the American rich.*
The children are needed to pay for your pension. Not sure why her children should support anybody except her.
Film industry are chaotic hours