As Hollywood production in Vancouver recovers after industry disruptions, a new banner, titled Black Harbour, has launched to offer services to American and other international producers looking to bring projects to British Columbia for budgetary savings.
The partners behind the new Vancouver-based production banner unveiled this week at the Banff World Media Festival have worked closely with Osgood Perkins and other American producers using Vancouver as a base from which to produce hit movies and TV series for the U.S. and other international markets.
The founding partners are veteran location manager Jacob Bailey, producer Jonathan J.J. Dubois, producer and production manager Kate Kroll and production manager and cinematographer Gabriel Medina.
The quartet’s ambitions with Black Harbour include bringing more production to British Columbia as producers look to shoot locally from project development to delivery, whether on budgeting, scheduling, and crew management through to studio-level negotiations financing models.
Besides direct access to local crews and equipment, the Black Harbour principals aim to leverage tax credits for savings as budgets and episode orders shrink and small- to medium-sized projects chase affordability for their producers in a tough global market.
The westernmost Canadian province has long provided a production hub for Hollywood producers, but has seen a fall off in film and TV series shoots after the end of the Peak TV era and industry disruptions like the 2023 L.A. labor strikes just as rules in Hollywood for storytelling, packaging and distribution are being reshaped.
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