Have a daughter, niece or sister who’s curious about coding? As part of DigiBC’s ongoing commitment to education for youth, they have partnered with UTG Academy and IUGO Mobile Entertainment again to create an online video game development focused coding camp for girls that will be held over the summer.

This incredible opportunity is open to 8-13 year olds and is suitable for a wide range of novice and beginner coders (no previous experience is necessary). Additionally, a unique and new curriculum is implemented each year to build a camp experience that accommodates the skills and creative goals for every participant’s project ideas — more info below for returning campers from previous years! 

The week-long session is project-based, and campers will create a HTML5 game using PixelPAD and Python. For this year’s curriculum, experienced UTG instructors will lead the class through the design and development of the iconic game, Flappy Bird. Students will then get to write code, customize gameplay features, update sprites, re-skin their game, and create a version that is uniquely their own.

Dates: July 10-14; July 24-28; August 14-18; August 28-September 1
Times: M-F, 9:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Location: Online (Zoom)
Ages: 8-13
Cost: $155

Learn more and register here.

Reel Green™  is collecting information about positive green experiences and green accomplishments to better tell the story of the sustainability progress in the motion picture industry in British Columbia.

If you are a sustainability coordinator, crew member, film office or liaison, industry stakeholder, green vendor or hold a relationship to the film + TV industry, you are invited to share your experience and observations!

Productions regularly do both big and small things to help leave a lasting positive impression and steward goodwill for future filming opportunities, often with no fanfare or recognition.

Data will be collected on an ongoing basis with the goal of regularly compiling and sharing big picture stories widely.  The format will be guided by the stories themselves and may include blog and social media posts, Reel Green™ Newsletter spotlights, etc.

Tell us your stories here. 

For Film Incentive BC (“FIBC”) applications, the “producer” of a film or video production is defined in the Income Tax Act – Film and Television Tax Credit Regulations as:

the individual who

(a) controls and is the central decision maker in respect of the production,

(b) is directly responsible for the acquisition of the production, story or screenplay and the development, creative and financial control and exploitation of the production, and

(c) is identified in the production as being the producer of the production;

The “producer” of an FIBC project must be a BC producer. To be considered a BC producer, the individual must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada who is subject to tax in BC on December 31 of the year before principal photography starts on the production.

All producer and producer-related roles on the project will be reviewed in order to determine who the “producer” on the project is, as defined by the Regulations. This may include Executive Producers or other producer-related personnel.

Granting Executive Producer or other producer-related credits to non-BC individuals is acceptable, as long as it is clear that those individuals are not performing the roles and responsibilities of the producer, as described above.

Granting producer or co-producer credits to non-BC individuals will disqualify the production if it is not an interprovincial or a treaty co-production.

If it is unclear during an application review as to who the producer is that fits the definition of the regulations, the analyst will reach out to the application contact directly for clarification.

For interprovincial and/or treaty co-productions, as defined in the Regulations (“interprovincial co-production” and “treaty co-production”), non-BC producer and co-producer credits are acceptable as long as their work is for the non-BC production corporation, and there is a BC producer / co-producer credit of the same level for work done by the BC production corporation.

Supporting documents are listed in the FIBC Eligibility & Completion application checklists available on our website at www.creativebc.com/fibc.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to Creative BC with questions about meeting the Producer requirements for your FIBC projects.

This post is intended as a general overview. It is not exhaustive and should not be relied upon to determine eligibility or the final amount of an anticipated tax credit. In case of any discrepancies between this post and the Income Tax Act (BC) and Regulations (the “Act”), the provisions of the Act prevail.