Culture of Saskatchewan - Film, and Television

Film, and Television

see also Saskatchewan Film and Video Classification Board

Television is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. By the mid 1950s, there were just over 150 radio broadcast stations operating nationwide across Canada, Canada first received television broadcasts in 1952 at Montreal and Toronto. There are currently nine separate television stations in Saskatchewan.

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. $7.80 admission fees, and 16 motion pictures (mainly made in the United States were viewed by the average Canadian in 1954. Saskatchewan residents thereafter developed their own films and the Saskatchewan Film Development Corporation a production unit of the National Film Board Canada, Saskatchewan Production Studios, as well as the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival. The Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios located in Regina that has been used for the production of both movies and television programs.

Film and television productions done at the Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios include:

• Falling Angels (2003)
• Corner Gas (2004–2009)
• Beyond Corner Gas: Tales from Dog River (2005)
• Tideland (2005)
• Sabbatical (2007)
• The Messengers (2007)
• How I Married My High School Crush (2007)
• It's Been a Gas (2009)
• Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
• Walled In (2009)
• InSecurity (2010)