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By Erika Rolling

Film & TV Tax Credit

Province announces $225 million over three years for Film and Television Tax Credit program

May 17, 2022 | 5:27 PM

The province says demand is growing in Alberta’s film and TV industry and is continuing to attract major production to shoot in our province.

Sixty-two productions have been shot in Alberta since the introduction of the Film and Television Tax Credit in January 2020, including 20 feature films, 41 television series and one digital media production.

Some notable productions made in Alberta recently are; Ghostbusters, Fraggle Rock, Fargo and HBO’s The Last of Us.

Grande Prairie’s QEII Hospital has reportedly been used as a set in The Last of Us series being filmed across Alberta.

Doug Schweitzer the Minister of Jobs, the Economy and Innovation says “Alberta’s film industry has doubled in production value and is becoming one of the fastest-growing industries in our province.”

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The provincial 2022-23 budget has increased the Film and Television Tax Credit program by 40% to $70 million for 2022-23 and $225 million through 2024-25.

“We believe this is going to be enough to allow us to grow with industry over the next three years, but we want to see them shoot higher, shoot bigger and we want this to become a billion-dollar industry in the province of Alberta. I think we can get there with a lot of hard work and talent development that will be key.”

“Not only are we gonna make sure we have the investments in our post-secondary institutions for skills, but we’re also gonna be there with the Film and Television Tax Credit,” he noted.

Aside from expanding the budget for the tax credit program to bring in more productions, the province also is putting money into post-secondary education for the film and television sector to create more jobs at home.

Every year, Alberta graduates more than 3,200 creative industry professionals from its post-secondary institutions.

According to Statistics Canada, every $1 million of production activity in the screen-based production sector creates about 13 Alberta jobs and every $1 million of government investment under the Film and Television Tax Credit program is expected to support about 85 Alberta jobs.