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Moviemaker Magazine ranked Victoria, in the Capital Regional District alongside Professor XB次元官网网址檚 School for Gifted Youngers, No. 5 on their annual Top 10 Small Cities & Towns to live and work as a moviemaker. The only Canadian city on the list trailed only Savannah, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe and New Orleans, which took the top spot.
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Greater Victoria landed approximately 40 shows in 2021, with 40-60 per cent of production budgets spent locally and bringing in approximately $60 million in direct spending to the Capital Regional District alone.
Five-star hotels and amazing restaurants coupled with a richly diverse location palette rarely seen on film make the region an undiscovered hotbed for Hollywood filmmakers to local independent filmmakers alike and Gilbert said many of the reasons high-budget series like Maid or Gracepoint choose Greater Victoria to shoot their projects, are the same reasons why the locals choose to live here.
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Gilbert said a temperate climate with approximately 30 per cent less rain than Greater Vancouver, competitive tax incentives for labour, a shared timezone with Hollywood and unique locations within close driving distance to each other also help make us one of the best small cities to live and work as a filmmaker.
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