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Brian Hamilton, a principle in the Vancouver-based production company Omnifilm Entertainment, regularly travels to television conferences around the world. “But when I say the phrase ‘Canadian drama,’ buyers don’t come running,” he said in a recent phone interview. “They’re going to Israel, Norway, Korea.”
Vancouver should be one of those hometowns. B.C. is a $3-billion-plus per year global production hub – in 2021, it hit a record of $4.8-billion. But as much as 90 per cent of that money comes from service productions. Those scripts are written elsewhere. Which means that Canadian screenwriters are shut out of 90 per cent of B.C.’s business.
“We decided, let’s not fight over a slice of the pie – let’s build a pie shop,” Hamilton said. “It didn’t hurt that streamers are in a growth phase in Canada, looking for ways to demonstrate that they’re good citizens. But we’re all motivated that a collective rising of the tide will lift everyone. And everything starts with the writer.”
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