The Directors Guild of Canada BC has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract covering films and TV shows shot in British Columbia
, which gives “safe harbor” to production companies that allows them to keep on shooting as long as they agree to sign a new contract when it’s finalized. All those companies that had been filming there had signed safe harbor agreements and now would be bound by the terms of the new contract.
Filming wasn’t affected anywhere else in Canada, either. In Toronto, which like British Columbia is also a major filming destination, directors and their crews are represented by a different DGC district council, which has its own separate contracts and wasn’t threatening to go on strike.• Minimum wage differentials: as minimum wage increases, so should all wage rates of lower-paid positions.• Retroactivity of wage increases to the expiry of the last collective agreement.