CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Canadian Literature, Telefilm Canada, Canadian Magazine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

150,000$ marketing budget, hollywood films have marketing budgets of 30. Canadian films get lost in the system. Cinema chains in canada are american own. Therefore the distribution of canadian films is based on tv. Runway productions: canadian cities are used to film in instead of american cities, it"s cheaper for production companies to film in canada. It"s an industry driven by government funding oriented towards production. Canada does really well in documentary films but not entertainment films. We"ve never established quotas limiting the amount of foreign films. An annual film budget that producers can apply for and receive grants. Films that promote diversity, linguistic diversity and other canadian values. So in general there is not a whole lot of money for canadian films. Tax breaks for investing in canadian films. Because of this in the late 70"s canadian films were really awesome (but they didn"t promote canada at all) Therefore canadian films suffer because they cannot compete with the us!