Cast & Crew Canada

Supporting your Canada-based productions for more than 20 years.

Cast & Crew Canada operates full-service offices in Toronto and greater Vancouver.

We provide a combination of legal, accounting and financing solutions including payroll processing, workers’ compensation, production-accounting software and financial services — all under one roof. For more than 40 years — and 20-plus years in Canada — we have provided services to the motion picture, television, event and commercial industries.

Cast & Crew Canada supports the Canadian industry and works both with local payroll as well as U.S. and other foreign entities operating in Canada. We offer several tailored financial services for companies conducting business in Canada, including tax-credit financing and advisement, production-incentive services and full completion bond services and advisement.

Providing superior service and easy-to-use digital products.

One-stop-shop to manage all tax-credit needs.

Canadian tax-credit programs have very specific structural directives and require a more comprehensive service solution than in the U.S. Cast & Crew Canada expertly handles the needs of producers accessing Canadian production tax credits, including:

Incentive valuation
Management services
Experienced third-party oversight

In addition to standard management services, Cast & Crew Canada will assist with:

Creating/operating Canadian permanent establishment
Activating federal tax accounts
Reviewing chain of title
Preparing production services agreement with copyright holder

A paperless solution for faster and more accurate onboarding.

Start+ is a digital solution that lets you process start documents and crew deals from anywhere and at any time.

With new key features like automated approval workflow, interaction-based triggers for digital forms, and automated scale rates, Start+ enables you to produce faster, more accurate start packets that are compliant with internal, union, and legal audit requirements.

It’s convenient, customizable, and entirely paper free.

CFC

Cast & Crew has close ties with the Canadian Film Centre and fully supports the CFC’s activities on behalf of the Canadian entertainment industry. Our involvement includes the CFC’s gala dinner and fundraising event, its cocktail party in Los Angeles and its activities in association with the Toronto International Film Festival.

Leo Awards

The Leo Awards are a project of the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, whose mission is to celebrate and promote the achievements of the British Columbia film and television industry. The awards are the foundation’s largest and most-visible project.

DGC

The DGC represents key creative and logistical personnel in the screen-based industry covering all areas of direction, design, production and editing, and exists as the collective voice of the industry. It expands creative opportunities for its members and is a visionary leader and partner in the development of the international Canadian industry.

FilmOntario

FilmOntario is an industry consortium representing more than 35,000 individuals working in the screen-based industry in Ontario. Members are from all parts of the film, television and digital-media industries, including unions and guilds, production companies, studios, suppliers and financial and legal-services organizations.