TORONTO – Television, film and digital production company Temple Street Productions announced today it has launched a new digital content studio that aims to become a new cultural hub for the city's online creator community.
Boat Rocker Studios, operating under the auspices of the company’s newly created Temple Street Media Ventures division, will work with Youtube and foster a campus-like environment for online creators to collaborate, gain expertise, receive business support and produce content that speaks to the new generation of viewers. The studio will be housed in Temple Street’s newly-acquired 20,000-square-foot Sackville Street building in Toronto. The site, which at one point used to house a CBC production facility, will undergo renovations throughout the fall and will open its doors in the first quarter of 2014.
“Temple Street was built on fostering strong relationships with writers and showrunners and providing them with the best creative and business environment possible,” said David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, co-presidents of Temple Street Productions, in an announcement. “We are now very excited to be forging similar collaborative partnerships with next-generation creators and to be working with YouTube to support the creation of great new content and to expand ever-growing online audiences.”
“Temple Street has a long track record of developing premium content. Their commitment to establishing a first class digital studio in Canada will present exciting new opportunities for the broader creator community,” said Jeremy Butteriss, Google Canada’s director of partnerships. “This will create tremendous benefits for Canadian content creators on their quest to make even better videos and build even bigger global audiences on YouTube.”
