What’s New in Ontario

FilmOntario supports the recent calls by ACTRA Toronto for all players in the screen-based industries to join in a discussion about how best to address harassment, bullying and discrimination in the workplace. We commend the steps that individual organizations have taken to date to ensure safe, harassment-free workplaces. Addressing these issues [...]

There are some amazing Ontario productions getting the spotlight at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The economic impact of Ontario production is significant ($1.7 billion in annual expenditures), and it is great to see these features at TIFF this year: Alias Grace: A layered historical drama based on of Margaret Atwood’s [...]

On Monday, April 11, at an event at William F. White, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Eleanor McMahon announced that Ontario's film and television industry contributed almost $1.7 billion to the provincial economy, the third year in a row production levels have broken the previous record, and the sixth consecutive year [...]

FilmOntario has been participating in the Government's consultations on the 2017 Provincial Budget, with a continued focus on ensuring the stability of the province's film and television tax credits. In our written submission, we asked the government to do the following: 1. Maintain its commitment to stable tax credit rates; 2. [...]

Thank you to all the members who attended our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, November 30 at the Ritz-Carlton. We covered a lot of important business (review our 2016 Accomplishments here) in the first part of the meeting and then were pleased to hear from the Honourable Eleanor McMahon, Minister of [...]