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Re: Canadians - Quebecers - Montrealers.
Spencer,
My pleasure! To answer your question, Quebec is a pretty unique place for pretty much anything but I think what's made it appealing to filmmakers is two fold:
On one hand I think a lot of productions come up here for the weather/seasons as well as the architecture in Montreal and Quebec City which is very old and is often used to pass for European cities. A few years ago the exchange rate favoured US productions coming up here as well but not so much anymore.
On the other hand, and less important to the rest of the continent I'd bet, is that Quebec is very fond of itself. So Quebecers really get behind their own productions. This naturally applies to french language productions most of all. I don't know any stats but Quebec's film industry is ridiculously successful compared to home-grown productions in the rest of Canada. I suppose what this means for the rest of the continent is that Quebec's film industry workers are very good at their jobs because they get a lot of practice making them appealing to outside productions.
On the indie side, because most of my work so far has been solitary, that's something I'm still exploring. It's also one of the reasons I set up this crew!
T
My pleasure! To answer your question, Quebec is a pretty unique place for pretty much anything but I think what's made it appealing to filmmakers is two fold:
On one hand I think a lot of productions come up here for the weather/seasons as well as the architecture in Montreal and Quebec City which is very old and is often used to pass for European cities. A few years ago the exchange rate favoured US productions coming up here as well but not so much anymore.
On the other hand, and less important to the rest of the continent I'd bet, is that Quebec is very fond of itself. So Quebecers really get behind their own productions. This naturally applies to french language productions most of all. I don't know any stats but Quebec's film industry is ridiculously successful compared to home-grown productions in the rest of Canada. I suppose what this means for the rest of the continent is that Quebec's film industry workers are very good at their jobs because they get a lot of practice making them appealing to outside productions.
On the indie side, because most of my work so far has been solitary, that's something I'm still exploring. It's also one of the reasons I set up this crew!
T