As Ottawa revives legislation to regulate foreign media players in the local market, IATSE says global studios and video giants already employ most Canadian creative workers, while local actors and directors want more local stories told.
ACTRA, Canada’s actors union, welcomed Bill C-11 as a way to compel financing in local film and TV creators by foreign media players being regulated for the first time like traditional broadcasters. “Streaming services need to be required to contribute to Canadian content production, distribution and development,” ACTRA national president Eleanor Noble said in a statement.
And the Directors Guild of Canada also welcomed Bill C-11 as expanding the definition of broadcasting to include online services to force more investment in local story-telling.
But the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents 30,000 Canadian creative workers, while echoing calls for global studios and streamers to contribute to local filmmaking, voiced concern that first-time regulation could put high-paying jobs from local work on American movies and other foreign content at risk.
“Domestic film production should be supported – but that must not be at the expense of job opportunities with the global studios and streamers, which employ the majority of Canadian creative workers,” IATSE International vp and director of Canadian affairs John Lewis said in his own statement. IATSE argued global studios and streamers already represent the second largest source of financing for domestic production after provincial tax credits, and that regulating foreign media players could imperil that investment. “Film is a global industry and we do not want the cost becoming so prohibitive that the global studios and streamer move these creative jobs elsewhere,” the U.S.-based union, whose members routinely crew American content shooting locally, argued.
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