
Welcome to the Indie List Survey 2025
Playback's annual independent production survey ranks Canadian production companies based on the volume of film and TV/OTT production they handled in the 2024 calendar year. The results will be published in May as part of our Spring 2025 print issue and on our website.
HOW THE SURVEY WORKS:
The survey measures all production and development by volume on a calendar year basis for independently-owned production companies based in Canada. Productions in all languages are eligible for submission.
Volume is expressed in terms of total screen-entertainment production budget(s) handled by a company. (This does not include advertising or corporate/commercial production.) Proprietary independent production and service production are tallied separately.
Please tally all feature film, TV/OTT and digital entertainment projects you produced during the 2024 calendar year and tell us the total of these budgets. If a production overlapped with either the beginning or the end of 2024, include only the portion of the project handled during the calendar year. Similarly, also include the total amount spent on development in 2024.
HOW THE SURVEY WORKS:
The survey measures all production and development by volume on a calendar year basis for independently-owned production companies based in Canada. Productions in all languages are eligible for submission.
Volume is expressed in terms of total screen-entertainment production budget(s) handled by a company. (This does not include advertising or corporate/commercial production.) Proprietary independent production and service production are tallied separately.
Please tally all feature film, TV/OTT and digital entertainment projects you produced during the 2024 calendar year and tell us the total of these budgets. If a production overlapped with either the beginning or the end of 2024, include only the portion of the project handled during the calendar year. Similarly, also include the total amount spent on development in 2024.
*What we will publish in the Indie List: total production spend, total development spend, total service production spend, total feature production spend, total production spending broken down by genre, as well as qualitative data on the state of the industry*
**What we won’t publish: per-project production spending, per-project development spending – while we ask you to include the spend for individual projects, we will not publish any of this information**
**What we won’t publish: per-project production spending, per-project development spending – while we ask you to include the spend for individual projects, we will not publish any of this information**
The survey also includes questions on the current state of the industry. Newly added this year are questions on company ownership and the use of artificial intelligence. Unless otherwise noted, any answers won't be attributed to individual companies to maintain anonymity.
Reminder: Spend is self-reported and works on the honour system – please be as accurate as possible! This is an industry-only list... and the industry knows!
SURVEY DEADLINE: MARCH 6, 2025.
If you are having any problems with this survey, email: Kelly Townsend (ktownsend@brunico.com)
Reminder: Spend is self-reported and works on the honour system – please be as accurate as possible! This is an industry-only list... and the industry knows!
SURVEY DEADLINE: MARCH 6, 2025.
If you are having any problems with this survey, email: Kelly Townsend (ktownsend@brunico.com)