Canadian Incentive Strategy

Canadian incentives, modeled against your actual budget.

Real Movie Magic budgets run through every relevant province, see what each location actually costs with a defensible top sheet in days, not weeks.

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What we do

Canadian Production Studio

From feasibility to finance, every engagement starts with a free 20-minute assessment and scales with where your project is.

Feasibility Snapshot

Fast clarity before you commit.

Assumptions memo, incentive snapshot, and a preliminary top sheet. For projects weighing Canada vs. elsewhere, you need an answer, not a spreadsheet.

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Budget & Schedule

Defensible, incentive-integrated.

Full Movie Magic budget, one-line schedule, and two rounds of refinement, built to survive financing review and audit planning.

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Finance & Consulting

Structured plan for investors.

Working recoupment model with IRR/ROI, exec summary, and 1:1 consulting on incentives, structure, and risk.

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Interactive Tool

Same project. Three provinces.

Pick a budget tier and a province. Every number is computed from real federal and provincial programs, PSTC stacked with each province's credit, union rate sheets, current Q2 2026 rates. The right location depends on story, crew, infrastructure, and which bonuses you can access, not just the raw net.

About

Built by producers who actually budget.

Sam Rosati

"We've spent over a decade building production scenarios in Canada. We know where the money is, and we know how to get it."

CineNorth is led by Sam Rosati, with 10+ years of hands-on experience in Canadian production, from advising US producers on provincial tax incentives to managing budgets and operations on large-scale television series in Toronto and Ontario.

Sam holds an MFA from the USC Peter Stark Producing Program and is completing his Executive MBA at UCLA Anderson. We also build AI-powered tools for production budgeting, allowing us to turn around incentive scenarios faster than anyone in the space.

UCLA Anderson MBA '26 USC Peter Stark MFA 10+ yrs Canadian production AI-powered budgeting
How we work

Days, not weeks.

Most incentive consultants hand you a spreadsheet and a rough estimate. We work differently.

Real budgets, not guesses

Complete Movie Magic budgets with full department scaffolding, union rate sheets, payroll fringes, and incentive integration.

Side-by-side scenarios

Federal plus provincial stacking. We run your project through every relevant jurisdiction and surface the real picture for each.

Proprietary speed

Custom tools that integrate directly with Movie Magic. What used to take weeks turns around in days.

Why Canada

Every province. Every incentive.

Four featured regions below, including post-production eligibility and VFX bonuses.

British Columbia
Pacific & mountain
36%
labour · +16% DAVE on VFX
Ontario
Urban & Great Lakes
21.5%
QPE hybrid · +18% OCASE
Québec
VFX & animation
25%
all-spend · +16% VFX
Manitoba
Prairie & northern
45%
labour · no CanCon req
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Get a free incentive assessment for your project.

We'll tell you which programs apply, what you'll recover, and whether post-production qualifies, in 20 minutes.

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Contact

Let's talk about your project.

Whether you're budgeting your first Canadian production or optimizing incentives on your fifth. Drop a few details and we'll respond within 24 hours with next steps.

Based in
Toronto & Los Angeles
Response
Within 24 hours
Pricing
Project-based · scoped per engagement

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