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Industry Unions, Guilds & Associations

ACTRA

Australian Writers' Guild

Canadian Actors' Equity Association

Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design

Communications Workers of America (CWA)/CANADA

Directors Guild of Canada

IATSE

International Affiliation of Writers' Guilds

NABET 700 UNIFOR

New Zealand Writers' Guild

Professional Writers Association of Canada

Playwrights Guild of Canada

SAG-AFTRA 

SARTEC - Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma

Union of BC Performers/ACTRA

Writers Guild of America, East

Writers Guild of America, West

Writers Guild of Great Britain

Writers Guild of Ireland

Writers Union of Canada

 

Industry Organizations

Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television

Alberta Media Production Industries Association

BIPOC TV & Film

Black Screen Office

Canadian Media Production Association

Canadian Writers' Foundation

Disability Screen Office

Documentary Organization of Canada

FilmOntario

Indigenous Screen Office

International Standard Audiovisual Number

Media NB

On Screen Manitoba

PEN Canada

ScreenSask (formerly Saskatchewan Media Production Association)

Visual Researchers' Society of Canada

Women in Film & Television - Atlantic

Women in Film & Television –Toronto

Gender Equity in Media Society Vancouver (formerly Women in Film & Television - Vancouver)

Woman in Film & Television International

Women in the Director's Chair

 

Benefits and Assistance

AFBS

The AFC

 

Government Agencies

Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Canada Council for the Arts

Canada Media Fund

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

Creative BC

Department of Canadian Heritage

Global Affairs Canada

Innovation PEI

Manitoba Film and Music

National Film Board of Canada

New Brunswick: Film, television and new media industry support programs

PictureNL (Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation)

Ontario Arts Council

Ontario Creates

Screen Nova Scotia

SODEC (Quebec)

Telefilm Canada

Yukon Media Development

 

Co-ops

Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative

Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers

Charles Street Video

Cinevic/Society of Independent Filmmakers

Digital Arts Resource Centre (formerly SAW Video)

FAVA – Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta

Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa

LIFT - Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto

Main Film

New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative

NIFCO - Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-operative

Trinity Square Video

 

Libraries

The Film Reference Library (TIFF) 

TV Writing

 

Training

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

BIPOC TV & Film (Toronto): Episodic TV Writers’ Lab and Kids’ TV Writing Incubator

Canadian Film CentreThe Norman Jewison Film Program Writer’s Lab 

Culture Works Canada (formerly Cultural Human Resources Council)

Future of Film Showcase: Director Development Incubator (Pitch Competition)

Gender Equity in Media Society (Vancouver) Tricksters and Writers Screenwriting Program

National Screen Institute (Winnipeg): NSI Series Incubator

New York Film Academy

Pacific Screenwriting Program (Vancouver) Scripted Series Lab

Reelworld Screen Institute (Toronto)

Screen Nova Scotia (NS) Screenwriter Internship Program

Toronto Film School

Vancouver Film School

Warner Bros Discovery Access X Canadian Writers Program

The Whistler Film Festival (Whistler) Screenwriters Lab

 

Postsecondary Institutions

Centennial College, Advanced Television & Film

Centennial College, Broadcasting - Radio, Television, Film & Digital Media

Centennial College, Children’s Media

Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Langara College Film Arts Program

Red Deer College

Seneca Polytechnic

Sheridan College, School of Animation, Arts & Design

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Toronto Metropolitan University - Film Studies

University of British Columbia, Dept. of Theatre, Film & Creative Writing

York University, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

 

Screenwriter Blogs

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Miscellaneous Screenwriting & Film Sites

Final Draft Blog

Go Into the Story

IMDB

IndieWire

Movie Bytes

Save the Cat!

Script

ScreenCraft

ScriptShadow

Simply Scripts

The Bitter Script Reader

The Blacklist: Where Filmmakers and Material Meet

The Script Lab (shutting down)