Today’s producers face a common challenge: how do you stretch your financing, access experienced crews and facilities, and deliver more production value without compromising your creative vision?
Saskatchewan offers an increasingly compelling answer.
Whether you’re looking for a Saskatchewan co-production partner or considering bringing your next production to the province as a service production, Saskatchewan combines one of Canada’s most flexible production incentive programs with broad genre eligibility, modern production infrastructure, innovative workforce development programs and experienced local production companies.
For feature films, television series, documentaries, reality television, game shows, lifestyle programming, commercials and branded content, Saskatchewan offers opportunities that few other jurisdictions can match.
A Flexible Approach to Co-Productions
Saskatchewan’s production incentive program is designed to encourage collaboration. And it offers up to 40% back on Saskatchewan spend. The best part? You’ll receive 50 – 80% up front. That’s great for cashflow, and can drastically lower interest costs.
In a coproduction, projects are eligible through Saskatchewan-owned production companies, with the Saskatchewan producer participating as an owner or co-owner of the project and holding copyright proportional to the Saskatchewan investment. Rather than requiring producers to fit within rigid ownership models, Saskatchewan’s participation can scale to the level of Saskatchewan financing being accessed.
This flexibility allows producers from across Canada to incorporate Saskatchewan into their financing strategy without fundamentally restructuring their projects.
Whether Saskatchewan is contributing a modest portion of the financing or playing a much larger role, producers can build partnerships that make business sense while accessing the province’s incentives, experienced production companies, crew, facilities and locations.
For Saskatchewan producers, it also creates exciting opportunities to build new creative and business partnerships while retaining meaningful ownership in projects.
A Competitive Destination for Service Productions
Saskatchewan is equally attractive for producers seeking an efficient and cost-effective service production destination. Service productions can receive up to 35% back, with 50-80% up front.
Competitive production costs, experienced local crews, diverse locations, modern facilities and responsive provincial support make Saskatchewan an ideal jurisdiction for productions looking to maximize on-screen value.
Unlike many jurisdictions, Saskatchewan’s incentives are available across an exceptionally broad range of production genres, making the province attractive for everything from dramatic series to commercials and large-scale studio productions.
Whether you’re filming an entire project or bringing only a portion of your production to Saskatchewan, local production companies can provide experienced partners to help deliver your project efficiently.
One of Canada’s Broadest Production Incentive Programs
Saskatchewan recognizes that today’s production industry extends well beyond traditional scripted television and feature films.
Eligible productions include:
- Feature films
- Scripted television
- Documentary
- Lifestyle programming
- Reality television
- Competition series
- Game shows
- Verticals
- Web Series
- Children’s programming
- Commercials
- Branded content
- Digital-first productions
Many jurisdictions exclude or significantly limit support for reality programming, game shows, commercials or branded content.
Saskatchewan embraces them.
That means producers developing unscripted formats, studio entertainment, branded campaigns or commercial productions have access to meaningful production support that simply isn’t available in many other parts of Canada.
Grow Your Crew While Producing
Finding experienced crew continues to be one of the industry’s biggest challenges.
Saskatchewan’s Apprenticeship Stream transforms that challenge into an opportunity.
When specialized positions cannot be filled locally, qualifying productions may bring experienced mentors into Saskatchewan to train local apprentices while production is underway and receive a grant of up to 40% on non-Saskatchewan resident’s labour. During the approved mentorship period, eligible mentor costs become Saskatchewan expenditures that qualify for the same grant percentage as the production itself.
The result is a program that allows producers to bring in the expertise they need today while helping Saskatchewan build the workforce it needs tomorrow.
Instead of choosing between hiring experienced professionals and investing in local talent, producers can do both.
World-Class Studio Infrastructure
Complementing Saskatchewan’s production incentives is the John Hopkins Regina Soundstage, one of Western Canada’s premier purpose-built production facilities.
Located just minutes from downtown Regina and Regina International Airport, the facility features three fully soundproof stages ranging from approximately 7,000 to 15,000 square feet, each with 42-foot ceilings and modern production infrastructure. The complex includes production offices, dressing rooms, hair and makeup facilities, wardrobe and laundry rooms, green rooms, secure storage, loading docks and full catering facilities, creating a true turnkey production environment.
For producers working in reality television, competition series and game shows, the John Hopkins Regina Soundstage is particularly attractive. Its multiple stages, generous ceiling heights and extensive support spaces make it ideally suited to “shiny floor” productions that require flexible studio configurations and sophisticated technical infrastructure.
The soundstage is owned by Creative Saskatchewan, the film commission, and offers highly competitive rates. Combined with Saskatchewan’s competitive production incentives, the soundstage gives producers access to a modern studio environment capable of supporting productions of virtually every scale.
More Than a Production Location
Saskatchewan isn’t simply a place to film.
It is a place to build partnerships.
The province is home to experienced independent production companies looking to collaborate with producers from across Canada and around the world. Local producers bring regional expertise, experienced crews, strong relationships with provincial agencies and a collaborative approach that helps projects move efficiently from development through delivery.
Whether you’re seeking a Saskatchewan co-production partner, a service production company, studio space, experienced crew or production financing, Saskatchewan offers an integrated production ecosystem designed to help projects succeed.
Let’s Build Your Next Production Together
Saskatchewan combines flexible co-production structures, competitive service production incentives, grants of up to 40% for qualifying co-productions and up to 35% for qualifying service productions, one of Canada’s broadest lists of eligible genres, the innovative Apprenticeship Stream and the world-class John Hopkins Regina Soundstage.
Whether you’re developing a feature film, television series, documentary, reality competition, game show, commercial or branded content campaign, Saskatchewan offers an opportunity to finance more, produce more and accomplish more.
If you’re exploring your next co-production or looking for a competitive service production destination, ScreenSask can connect you with experienced Saskatchewan producers, production companies and industry partners to help bring your project to life.
Let’s start the conversation.