Cinespace offers rent-free facilities to Canadian productions

TORONTO - Cinespace Film Studios Toronto has formally launched a program that offers rent-free facilities to select Canadian film, TV and digital media projects.Known as the Nick Mirkopoulos Canadian Content Initiative, the program is accepting applications from writers, directors and producers for studios, production offices or support spaces to assist projects that feature culturally impactful Canadian stories or that are helmed by rising Canadian artists. Notable past projects that benefited from this rent-free assistance include the 2013 feature Empire of Dirt, about generational drug addiction in a Native Canadian community, and the 2014 feature Bang Bang Baby, by Jeffrey St....