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Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia

"Hollywood North", an allusion to Hollywood, California, the most notable film centre in the world, is a colloquialism used to describe film production locations and or film gatherings located north of its namesake. The term has been applied principally to the film industry in Canada, specifically Vancouver and Toronto. It is also used to refer to several California locations north of the original Hollywood, including San Francisco, Silicon Valley,[1][2][3] and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.[4]

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[edit] Canada

The term "Hollywood North", with regards to Canada has been in use as far back as 1981[5] and is the title of the book Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia.[6][7] While the term is predominantly used in relation to Vancouver, British Columbia[8][9][10][11] and Toronto, Ontario,[12][13][14] it is now common for the term to be used to described the entire Canadian film industry.[15][16]

In the American film industry, the loss of film productions to foreign locations such as Canada is known as "runaway production". Groups such as The Film and Television Action Committee have lobbied the U.S. government to enforce World Trade Organization agreements and to protect U.S. workers from what they say are unfair trade practices and outsourcing of American jobs to other countries, including Canada.[citation needed]

[edit] Vancouver

(See also Category:Films shot in Vancouver and Category:Vancouver television series)

Nicknamed "Hollywood North"[17], Vancouver has been used as a filmmaking location for nearly a century, beginning with The Cowpuncher's Glove and The Ship's Husband, both shot in 1910 by the Edison Manufacturing Company.[18] As a production centre for feature films shot in British Columbia; it has led Canada's other cities for feature films since 1999.[19][20][21] In 2002, 75% of all Canadian foreign productions were based in British Columbia and Ontario. That same year British Columbia led the country in foreign film production receiving 44% of the Canadian total.[15] Presently, Vancouver is North America's third-largest film centre,[22][23] just after Los Angeles and New York.[24][25][26] It is second to Los Angeles in television production in the world.[27] Lions Gate Studios and Vancouver Film Studios are among the two largest special effects stages in Canada.[24][8] VFS being the largest production facility outside of Los Angeles[28] On a world-wide scale, Bridge Studios, in Greater Vancouver, has one of the largest special effects stages in North America.[24]

The BC Film Commission reported that in 2005, more than 200 productions were completed in B.C.: 63 feature films, 31 television series, 37 movies-of-the-week, 15 television pilots, 5 miniseries, 20 documentaries, 16 short films and 24 animation projects.[29]. In 2006, spending on film and TV production in B.C. was $1.228 Billion. .[30]

Vancouver is 1,725 kilometres (1,072 miles) from Hollywood, a three hour airplane flight[31] or a two to three day drive. This relative proximity coupled with Canadian government subsidies is a major factor in the growth of Vancouver's production industry.[32] Proximity reduces issues over operating hours, accessibility, travel time for principals, access to filmmaking infrastructure, and experience of crews (the closer to Hollywood, the better and more experienced the crew).

Several books outline the evolution of the Vancouver production community, including Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia,[6] Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest,[33] and Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia: An article from: Business History Review.[34]

[edit] Toronto

Hollywood North 2004 Film

(See also Category:Films shot in Toronto and Category:Toronto television series)

Since at least the 1980s, Toronto has been associated with the nickname 'Hollywood North.'[35] Toronto ranks third in film and television production in North America[36] and ranks second as an exporter of television programming in North America.[37]. Toronto is the home base for Alliance Atlantis productions, the largest movie and television productions company in Canada,[38], which produces and distributes films and television across all of North America and parts of Europe.[39] Toronto is also the headquarters of Nelvana, the largest animation company in Canada and one of the largest animation/children's entertainment studios in the world.

The Toronto Film and Television Office reported that in 2005 some 200 productions were completed in Toronto: 39 features, and 44 movies made for television, 84 television series, 11 television specials, and 22 MOW's (movies of the week).[40] The Toronto Film and Television Office issued 4,154 location filming permits for 1,258 projects totalling 7,319 days of shooting.[41] Ontario is the only Canadian province to have an office in Los Angeles: the Toronto Ontario Film Office.[42][43]

In addition to being a productions centre, Toronto is the home to the Toronto International Film Festival, the largest film festival in North America and second to the Cannes festival globally.[44] It attracts numerous high-profile actors and film makers form around the globe to premiere their Films in Toronto and is generally considered the point to which the Oscar races begin.[45][46]

Poster for the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival
Poster for the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto is home to Canada's Walk of Fame, based on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, albeit honouring notable Canadians.

Former Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman proclaimed Toronto as being "Hollywood North" in 2002,[47] the same year which Toronto's film and television production industry accounted for $1.16 billion towards the city's economy.[48] However, in 2006, film and TV spending in Ontario was only $888 Million.[49]


Toronto's media outlets include CBC, MTV, Much Music, YTV, and Entertainment Tonight. Toronto usually hosts the Gemini Awards, and between 1970 and 2006, Toronto has hosted 28 of the 36 Juno Awards.

[edit] San Francisco and the Bay Area

The City of San Francisco has been used as a shooting location at least as far back as Illustrated Photographs in Motion was filmed there in 1880. Several other early documentary films feature films have been shot there in the years since.[50] San Francisco and the Bay Area have had a vibrant filmmaking community ever since, hosting several notable filmmakers including George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Wayne Wang, Saul Zaentz, and their respective movie studios and production companies. San Francisco was also a favorite shooting location for master film director Alfred Hitchcock, who filmed The Birds[51] and Vertigo [52] in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Movie and special effects studios in the San Francisco Bay Area include George Lucas' Lucasfilm, visual effects masters Industrial Light & Magic, and Lucas' Skywalker Ranch, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope, The Saul Zaentz Film Center in Berkeley, Matte World Digital, The Orphanage, Giant Killer Robots, Disney's and John Lasseter's Pixar animation studios, and PDA/Dreamworks.

Since 1957 San Francisco has been the home of the San Francisco International Film Festival, the longest-running and first international film festival on the North American continent.[53] [54] The first San Francisco International Film Festival hosted films by Satyajit Ray, Luchino Visconti, and Michelangelo Antonioni among others.[54]

[edit] Hollywood North the film

The 2003 feature film Hollywood North, starring Matthew Modine and Jennifer Tilly, is a mockumentary detailing the struggles of two Canadian movie producers in Toronto circa 1979.[55]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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  2. ^ SiliconBeat: "George Lucas' Hollywood North" - Mercury News by Mary Anne Ostrom
  3. ^ SF Gate.com San Francisco Chronical - "Google Team sets sights on big screen" by Verne Kopytoff
  4. ^ D.J. Palladino. Hollywood North Comes of Age: The Twentieth Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. indieWIRE.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-10.
  5. ^ Steed, Judy. "Pay Television", The Globe and Mail, 8 September 1981, p. 7.
  6. ^ a b Gasher, Mike (2002). Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-774809-67-1. 
  7. ^ Hollywood. Lois Siegel. Retrieved on 2006-12-24.
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  15. ^ a b Hollywood North: The Canadian film industry. Statistics Canada. Retrieved on 2006-12-24.
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  17. ^ Mike Gasher. Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. p. 8.
  18. ^ Ken MacIntyre. Reel Vancouver. Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1996. p. 133.
  19. ^ Foreign location production spending, British Columbia and Canada. Statistics Canada. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
  20. ^ Number of Productions 1993-2005 (36KBPDF). BC Film Commission. Retrieved on 2007-01-01.
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  22. ^ Industry Profile. BC Film Commission. Retrieved on 2006-12-24.
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  33. ^ Spaner, David (2004). Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press. ISBN 1551521296. 
  34. ^ Trumpbour, John (September 30, 2003). Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia: An article from: Business History Review. Harvard Business School. Retrieved on 2006-12-24. 
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  53. ^ About. San Francisco Film Society (2006). Retrieved on 2007-02-10.
  54. ^ a b Traude Gómez (2006). HOW THE SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL STARTED. San Francisco Film Society. Retrieved on 2007-02-10.
  55. ^ Movie Details: Hollywood North (2004). Yahoo! Canada Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-01-01.

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