BC Film industry going strong
Posted July 24, 2008 by Sacha Peter - Link
Category: Irrelevant and Irreverent
Despite the rise in the Canadian dollar, the film industry in BC continues to thrive - shows like Battlestar Galactica, for example, are shot in BC (mainly in the Lower Mainland) and make a name for themselves world-wide.
I couldn’t help but notice the government’s press release about giving Chris Carter (from X-Files fame) a certificate of recognition to his contribution to the BC film industry. This is very well deserved.
What the press release didn’t mention is that when the X-Files moved out of Vancouver and back to California, that’s when the series began to go downhill.
I wonder if that’s because they moved out of BC.
There is no electoral impact to this government press release other than that somebody in the ministry of Tourism, Sports and the Arts did their research.
Are you so blind as you can’t see? I have been in this business for 18 years and mostly in B.C. I am a UBCP member and according to the annual meeting (held just last week) we have a drop of 35% from the year before. Battlestar didn’t move back to California but Battlestar (on it’s own) a film industry does not make. We still have some other projects in town but precious little. In film B.C. is (like the rest of the country) the U.S.’s bitch. Canada will never have a legitimate film buisness as long as the CBC exists and other pseudo nationalistic baloney organizations.
Every patriotic twit cites X-files demise as some magic perpetuated by the move back to California. Well it wasnn’t, it died for two reasons. 1) Dave left the show and 2) it ran out of decent plots. Wake up and smell the celulose, as a film industry for the grace of California we exist.
What solutions would you suggest to no longer make us (in your words) “the U.S.’s bitch”? You mentioned getting rid of the CBC, but what else?
The BC government has been pretty aggressive in matching filming tax credits with the rest of the country.