Location Innovators Lure Productions With Incentives, Crews and Locales
16.09.2022 - 19:13
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British Columbia Takes Steps to Tackle Growth It’s estimated that the production workforce in Vancouver, B.C., needs to expand by up to 5% annually, or 1,000 people a year, and those figures are drawn from a study conducted in 2017, before the streaming wars went into high gear. To help accommodate the growth, government-supported independent nonprofit Creative B.C. has launched Creative Pathways, a website featuring listings for 300-plus jobs across 30 different departments, along with training and education sessions and postings for networking events. To further the industry’s Jeddi (Justice, Equity, Decolonization, Diversity, Inclusion) efforts in the region, the organization has also teamed with Elevate Inclusion Strategies to create the Creative Equity Roadmap, an online resource with guidelines for best practices and cultural competence.
With increased production also comes concerns about the corresponding environmental impact on Vancouver, which is being addressed by Creative B.C.’s Reel Green initiative. Founded in 2006, it has grown from a resource website offering info, tools and training to a Canada-wide program that works with a wide cross-section of industry stakeholders through efforts such as its Clean Energy and National Reel Green Committees and its recently launched Power Tie-Ins program, which helps local and Indigenous governments upgrade their power infrastructures to support larger projects. “We’re trying to eliminate diesel generators, and the city of Vancouver has led the way with [energy] grid tie-ins at lot of locations, so they have enough power for a circus or a full unit,” says Marnie Gee, B.C. film commissioner and director of production services for Creative B.C. — Todd Longwell Cherokee
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