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Northern

Exposure

Samuel L. Jackson. Both films

were

Production Slate, AC, Dec. '99), in

locally.
Controversy in both Canada
and America has accompanied the
growth in Canadian production.
Canadian producers argue that while
provincial governments bend over

England's Shepperton Studios
afforded Egoyan and his longtime
cinematographer, Paul Sarossy, CSC,
a
luxury they never enjoyed back

shot

backward

to

accommodate

U.S.

productions, they don't do enough
to stimulate the development of
Canadian projects, which rely heavily
on public funds. One need
only look
at the marquees of Toronto's many
movie

home. "We had

see

their

point.
The

pecking order within
by the case

Toronto is demonstrated

of local director Atom

announcement, and the

it's

decided

always in converted warehouse
spaces. We've never had access to the
studio spaces [because] they're
always booked by bigger [U.S.]
films."

recently threatened when

most recent

film, the U.K.-Canadian

co-production Felicia's Journey (see

Alta Sensibilidad
Would Ilka to thaoh
Director Allooso Cuaron
and Emmanuel Lukezki,
Director of Photography,
for trusting oor lab with
the processing of their
most recent film
"Y to Mama Tambien"

government
stay its decision. Many in

production and post fields

believe that Revenue Canada will

ultimately not
good thing.

want to

sacrifice

Meanwhile, industry infra¬
structure

continues

to

develop

withholding tax levied on
foreign actors working in Canada

for

percent

insufficient, and that

return

a

full

tax

would be

required. This
particularly detrimental to

California actors, whose home state
not offer tax credits for
foreign

does

work. This

development

sent shock

recently announced plans
expansion, confident
that feature film production will only
continue to grow in B.C. Mark Scott,
vice president and director of opera¬
one,

for a $3 million

tions at Post

Modern, states that "it's

important for the government to
recognize the kind of industry that's

Lab Director Ing.

Rodolfo Jacques

Bookings Claudia Medrano
Quality Control Ing. Miguel A Corral
Operators Francisco Becerril
Mario Cervantes

Centro de Produccion
Av. Merced Gomez, Mexico,
Tel. 5593 9177 ext. 229
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Emma Flores

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a

unabated. Vancouver audio postpro¬
duction shop Post Modern Sound,

would be

most

Shooting his

to

Canada, the federal taxa¬
tion division, stated that the 15

made him

of Canada's

the

Canada's

Revenue

Revenue

was

one

followed

The volume of U.S. business
was

Egoyan, a 17year industry veteran whose features
Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter have
acclaimed filmmakers.

a

studio," Egoyan explains. "When you
shoot in Toronto [on low budgets],

theaters, dominated almost

entirely by U.S. product, to

shot in

never

throughout the Canadian
production sector, where some
expressed the belief that major
Hollywood stars would no longer
work north of the border. A lobby by
Canadian industry members quickly
waves

Gustavo Ruiz
Rene

Maguellar
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