Sudbury: Your Northern Basecamp
Scenery
Sudbury's downtown includes heritage buildings and modern multi-level offices. Streets can be cheated to show almost any time period, with graffiti-covered alleys, clean sidewalks, or industrial landscapes. Unique destinations like Science North or the underground mine at Dynamic Earth offer something different, and lakes, forests, and cliffs are all within a few minutes drive of virtually any downtown location.
Residential homes from the turn of the century compliment neighbourhoods from the 60s, 70s and 80s, along with a some larger modern homes overlooking the boreal forest. Sudbury can double for virtually anywhere in the world -- and out of it, too.
Crew
Sudbury is home to a diverse and growing base of skilled technicians and filmmakers that help keep production costs low - some of which with over 20 years of experience supporting the industry's two-decade rise in Northern Ontario. Our crews are qualified, versatile, and eager to work on your next project.
Connect with Set Designers, Key Grips, Gaffers, Hair and Makeup Artists, Transport Captains, Location Managers, Line Producers, Production Managers, and more; many of our emerging and established crew can be found on CION's Crew Database.
Infrastructure
Film your vision at the Northern Ontario Film Studios (NOFS), the region's first production studio that has hosted countless projects since 2012. With a 16,000-square-foot single-span main stage floor, on- and off-site production offices, department rooms, and a craft kitchen, NOFS is a one-stop-shop for incoming producers.
Sudbury also has Northern Ontario's largest equipment rental facility, with William F. White International Inc., a Sunbelt Rentals company, providing professional equipment and expertise to projects of all sizes. Upcoming studio developments, including White Owl Film Studios just 20-minutes from the city, aim to increase producer access to state-of-the art facilities in the North.
Resources in Sudbury
Local Incentives
Employment Land Community Improvement Plan (CIP)
Film and television infrastructure projects can receive a Tax Increment Equivalent Grant (TIEG) to offset the increase in property assessment and municipal property tax based on the completed project. The TIEG will subsidize 100 per cent of the municipal portion of the increase in property assessment and municipal property tax. Grants will be available for a three, five, seven or 10-year period based on scoring.
Greater Sudbury Animation Partnership (GSAP) at Cambrian College
GSAP offers a non-repayable funding opportunity for animation and game design projects being developed in the Greater Sudbury region. Delivered through Cambrian College's department of Applied Research, the funding unlocks 500 hours of student time to assist with project development. A $2,500.00 investment from the partner organization is required to unlock a funding voucher valued at $12,500.00, for a total project budget of $15,000.00.
Production Facilities and Services
Film-Friendly Hotels
Special offers available at select hotels -- connect with film@greatersudbury.ca for details!
- Comfort Inn Sudbury Regent Street
- Comfort Inn Sudbury East
- Best Western
- Cambrian Residence and Conference Centre
- Canada's Best Value Inn
- Collège Boréal Residence and Conference Centre
- Clarion Hotel
- Econo Lodge Sudbury
- Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott
- Hampton Inn
- Hilton Garden Inn Sudbury
- Holiday Inn Sudbury
- Homewood Suites
- Legacy Suites
- Microtel Inn & Suites Sudbury
- Moonlight Inn Suites
- Northbury Hotel and Conference Centre
- Norvic Motel
- Quality Inn Sudbury
- Radisson Hotel
- Sage Executive Suites
- Super 8 Motel
- The University of Sudbury Residence
- Towneplace Suites by Mariott
- Travelodge Hotel
- Travelway Inn
Resources and Guidelines
Vendors
46th Parallel Management is a Talent Agency representing actors across Northern Ontario.
With a robust fiber-optic network, Agilis Networks is the premier choice for businesses and organizations in need of top-of-line, reliable telecommunication services. Your business’s success is important to us.
Art gallery located in Sudbury, Ontario specializing in watercolour and acrylic paintings, as well and mixed media art.
With photography that is natural, relaxed, and beautifully lit, Bertrand Productions has a calm and fun approach offering custom-made, artistic photographic solutions and commercial videography.
BrokerLink insures all types of businesses, and offers coverage specific to most industries.
Cambrian R&D helps you access funding, support, and skilled workers to facilitate research & development to help grow your business. Cambrian R&D is your catalyst for growth.
Provides supporting case, extras, and various locations for movies, TV series, and comericals filming in Northern Ontario.
For productions requiring major construction, this established Canadian supplier rents compact, aerial and heavy industrial and construction vehicles and equipment, with outlets all over Northern Ontario (available in North Bay, Timmins, and Kapuskasing).
Copperworks is a film, video and digital media production company, bringing its experience in production to our broadcast and commercial partners - primarily as line producers, production managers and location scouting/management.
Deadpan Studios is a professional recording studio marrying vintage and cutting edge equipment and techniques with a live room suited for music production as well as voice over and ADR.
We have all your print and sign production solutions under one roof. So whether you need a quick engraving, scanning of engineering blueprints, colour printing, reports duplicated, or industrial tags and signs created, our team can do it!
Gallus Entertainment is a highly regarded Canadian developer and producer of animated series. Through Canadian and International Co-productions Gallus bring reliability and quality to each and every production.
Inventory includes a complete array of film and television lighting, grip equipment and an extensive fleet of crystal sync generators. We also carry a wide range of remote heads and cranes, camera cars and related specialty, state-of-the-art production equipment and expendables able to accommodate any size production in Northern Ontario.
Hideaway Pictures is the largest full service production company in Northern Ontario, providing both creative and production services to a wide range of clients in film and television industry.
With over 80 hotels in our portfolio, representing internationally recognized hotel brands, InnVest is the largest owner of hotels in Canada. Multiple hotels in Northern Ontario (Comfort Inn) added to site.
JJ Mobile Gym is just that, a mobile gym. We deliver a fully equipped fitness center to your location. Our facility is great for: movie sets, company retreats, events, festivals, conferences, and more.
As a leading transportation Sudbury cab company, we pride ourselves in providing a wide range of professional and reliable transportation services 24/7.
Melissa A. Smith Casting (CDC) is a casting company specializing in casting for feature film and television.
Fully stocked sound equipment rental house, serving some of Sudbury’s most high-profile productions.
At MidCoast Productions, our passion is sound. That’s why producers from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa have trusted us with their on-set and post-production audio needs.
We are Storytellers focused on co-creating Premium Video Content for Mining & Industrial businesses to leverage the Power of Video.
Paquette has produced, written, and/or directed numerous feature films, including fiction, documentary, docufiction, experimental, and animation. While he initiates his own projects, Paquette welcomes project proposals from others, and his services as screenwriter, producer, and/or director are available for hire.
Nexus Canada is a full service special effects company providing on-set special effects solutions. We provide a broad range of practical FX to the film and television sector as well as the music video and commercial worlds.
Nite Lite Limousines is Greater Sudbury’s premier provider of limousine, car service and airport transportation in and out of town.
Comfortable and secure, our rental edit suites are nimble and can be configured with any spec. Equipped with online and offline edit suites available for both long form and short form productions, each suite can be customized with hardware and software based on your individualized editing needs.
We are a company in Northern Ontario who provides set medics for productions and medical staff for events.
Northern Ontario’s biggest studio features a 16,000-square-foot stage floor, 3,000 square feet of office space, on- and off-site production offices, a hair and makeup room, a prop shop, a craft kitchen, laundry facilities, studio rentals, grip/lighting rentals, production service vehicle rentals, and prop/building material rentals. With fibre-optic internet and Wi-Fi, along with copious parking, this studio can accommodate an entire production.
A hybrid mixing and mastering approach in a state of the art facility with the latest in audio gear and plugins, Sound engineering at its finest - We offer edge that is hard to replicate.
Specializes in the development, financing and production of feature films and television projects through location scouting, budget review,tax credit estimates, local casting, crew calls, and more.
At Panoramic Properties Inc, our mission is to provide high-quality and affordable rental properties that exceed the expectations of our tenants. We are committed to creating safe, comfortable, and well-maintained living environments that our residents are proud to call home. Our furnished apartments allows you to enjoy all the benefits of living in a luxury home without the worry of maintenance. Each unit is individually styled to offer a unique apartment in our exclusive collection to ensure your comfort and your return. Furnished suites include all the comforts of home, wifi and parking with daily, weekly or monthly stays.
I write and produce music for many genres, focusing on orchestral, electronic and heavy metal. Most of my music is available for licensing and I also take contracts to write original music for film, games or businesses. Please leave me a comment if you are interested in my services.
I create with sound. I conjure sound with artists, singers, musicians, film-makers, dancers, poets, activists, ecologists. I craft soundscapes from still and moving images, colours, emotions, lyrics, scripts and stories. I mix and master songs, soundtracks, albums until they give me goosebumps. I polish and hone sound.
Airline offering direct flights from Downtown Toronto to Thunder Bay, Sudbury, Sault. Ste. Marie and Timmins.
At Quality Inn Sudbury, we recognize the importance of addressing our environmental impact and making continuous efforts towards sustainability. We have gained third party sustainability certification from Green Key Global to add credibility to our sustainable efforts.
Through Green Key Global, we are regularly audited to validate and maintain our certification audit is required immediately upon earning our eco-rating status, and at minimum every 3 years thereafter. We have earned a level 3 eco-rating and are using the steps outlined in our sustainability map, as well as the tools and resources offered to us to make continuous efforts to improve and communicate sustainability practices both day-to-day and in the long-term.
We rent a large variety of items, including automotive tools, concrete breakers & mixers, saws, generators, lawn & garden equipment, plumbing tools, pumps, compressors and much, much more.
From commercials and music videos, to scripted television and feature films, we have the team, equipment and experience to bring virtually any project to fruition.
Greg is a Sheridan College Multi-Media Graduate with over 20 years experience in 3D modeling, motion graphics and 3D animation. Professionally, Greg comes from a background in digital marketing, communications, industrial design and packaging in the Sports & Sports Nutrition, Pharmaceutical and Auto Industries
Daniel Bédard has been composing music, designing and editing sound, and creating stereo and surround mixes for multimedia installations, film, TV, radio, and theatrical productions for over thirty years.
The Sudbury outlet of the longstanding go-to rental house has supplied lighting and grip equipment to some of the area’s most high-profile feature and TV productions.
That Creative Loft is a professional training facility for Northern Ontario actors & models formerly known as MAS Acting Studios. We offer on-camera acting, voice-over and modelling training to individuals of all experience levels & ages.
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