Creative BC’s Provincial Film Commission is crucial to sustaining motion picture activity in B.C. It promotes and facilitates the province’s production capabilities that make B.C. both a global centre of creative excellence and a full-service hub. We strive to continually improve and innovate our services in order to best serve the industry and contribute to the growth and success of the sector as a whole.
About British Columbia
Generally speaking, British Columbia is a cool, moist, mountainous, forested region. However, the province also has areas with Mediterranean-type, semi-arid, subarctic, and alpine climates. It has extensive plateaus, plains, and basins as well as several roughly parallel series of mountains.
Forests dominate the vegetation but there are also extensive areas of grasslands, wetlands, scrub, and tundra. (Source: SFU Data Warehouse 2007)
SFU Biogeoclimate Zone Page
Climate Averages
Sunrise / Sunset Tables
Tide Tables
Conversion Tables
Environment Canada Website
Departments
Library + Production Services
Through tailored location packages generated from Creative BC’s proprietary locations library, the Library + Production Services team provides domestic and international producers with a World of Looks that reflect their cinematic stories creative requirements from the rugged landscapes of the Kootenays to the Okanagan’s sunny vineyards or the Lower Mainland’s urban settings. We offer client service, locations, production expertise, and timely, up-to-date industry knowledge are core activities and skills for success in this role.
Industry + Community Affairs
Acts as the first point of contact for inquiries from the public and industry relevant to physical production in British Columbia. Creative BC plays an independent role in managing a variety of specific policy files, industry communications, and special initiatives.
Reel Green™
Sustainable production efforts in British Columbia were formalized in 2016 ago through the Reel Green™ initiative, a resource centre with a collection of best practices to help productions reduce their environmental impacts and improve their overall environmental footprint. The initiative has grown to become a leader in sustainable production strategy and action, with well over 20+ industry funders, 30+ national partners, and 10+ committees working on specific areas of action including Industry Best Practices, Clean Energy, and Circular Economy.
Creative Pathways™
Creative BC, the Motion Picture Production Industry Association (MPPIA), and B.C.’s motion picture industry developed a six-part strategy to deliberately increase workforce capacity through more fair and balanced representation. The strategy acts on recommendations from a recent labour market study, funded by the Province of British Columbia and the Government of Canada through their Sector Labour Market Partnerships program (SLMP).
The design, development, and implementation of this website and its two targeted equity streams, Setwork, and Meet 10, is a secondary SLMP project also funded by the Province of British Columbia and the Government of Canada, secured by industry “seed” funding from Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada.
History of Film in British Columbia
