Toronto’s Film and Television Clusters

Shohil ChauhanSeneca College

MRK625 MS

What is a cluster?

A Cluster is a geographic concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions in a particular field.

Clusters are considered to increase the productivity with which companies can compete, nationally and globally.

Seneca: Visual Effects for FilmAnd Television

Seneca College plays a roll in the having a cluster focus in film. This following program is to teach students in many different ways to create visual effects for film and television. students explore software tools used to create visual effects and  the combining of effects in live action footage

$1.4 million in funds for 3D Film Innovation

Recent success of Avatar in 3D has sparked more interest of these film developers and believe that future film making success is to incorporate the 3D technology.

Ensuring Cluster Infrastructure

A staff report addressed to Mayor Miller in making Toronto’s and Canada’s infrastructure better by building Film Production Studios in Toronto and other locations such as Vancouver.

The GTA Film And Television Cluster

Clicking on the following image will navigate you to ‘The GTA Film And Television Cluster’ page. Displayed here is a Slide-share presentation- in the presentation there are several facts of how this cluster benefits the GTA, plans about going green, and more.

http://www.slideshare.net/george_lambropoulos/the-gta-film-and-television-cluster

Toronto International Film Festival

The Film Festival is very beneficial to Toronto’s Economy and helps support Film clusters in and around the GTA. This big event brings to town many big name celebrities and in fact Toronto has the best Film Festival in the world.

Acting for film, T.V. & Theatre

The Toronto Film School, Canada’s finest film school. Here the students make films, edit work constantly and prepare for work both in front of and behind the camera.

Ontario Media Development Corporation

OMDC (Ontario Media Development Corporation) supports the Film and Television industries through a variety of programs, funds and events, including the Film Fund; the Entertainment and Creative Cluster Partnerships Fund; Screen-based Content Initiative; domestic markets and events and the Export Fund.

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