Agreement television and film co-production between Canada and Sweden
Ottawa, October 17, 1994 Mr. Michel Dupuy, Minister of Canadian Heritage, today announced the signing of an agreement on the television and film co-production between Canada and Sweden. The agreement was signed today in Stockholm, by Erik Lempert, Deputy Permanent Secretary of State attached to the Ministry of Culture, for Sweden, and Michael B. Phillips, Canada’s ambassador to Sweden. Sweden is the first Scandinavian country to sign an agreement of this sort with Canada. These agreements are an international co-production means more and more used to share costs and high risks for Canadians as for the Swedes, combined to produce works of cultural interest of quality and access to markets foreigners.In the opinion of Mr. Dupuy, this agreement will enable Canadian producers and Swedish combine their resources creative, artistic, technical and financial resources to produce in collaboration movies and television shows that are considered national productions in each country. In Canada, an official co-production benefits of national status for dissemination under CRTC regulations on broadcasting, and Canadian co-producer is eligible for a grant from Telefilm Canada. The signing of the agreement reflects the growing importance of industry Scandinavian cinema and television in the eyes of Canadian producers. Some feature films and documentaries are being developed in collaboration by the two countries, as well as television productions, most notably a series for television designed according to the Swedish film My Life as a Dog critically acclaimed film, produced by the company Atlantis Films of Toronto in partnership with Movie Makers of Sweden. Mr. Dupuy said that a mission of Canadian producers and distributors was organized by the Ministry of Canadian Heritage, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, in collaboration with Telefilm Canada, the occasion of the signing of this agreement. The mission aims to establish trade relations in the areas of co-productions and sales. The Swedish Film Institute and Denmark have agreed to host the mission. Mr. Dupuy hopes to conclude a similar agreement with Denmark in 1995. Canada has already concluded agreements with 25 countries, including most recently with Japan and Chile.
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