Vic Sarin
Director, Partition, Deluxe Combo Platter

TMN is crucial. Without them, I can’t make a Canadian movie. They are an important piece of the puzzle.

Over the years, the budgets have gotten higher than before. And you need different players now; you can’t have any one source bankroll you.

When securing funding, it has always been the way that the filmmaker gets the money, not the producer who is developing the film. It’s backwards.

When we were making Partition, thank God they came on board. It looked like [we were going to have to make] it a South African copro, but thanks to them I could make this film, which was very dear to me, an all-Canadian film. And it wasn’t about ego to make it all-Canadian – it’s just that you have more creative freedom, which is music to a filmmaker, when less people are involved.

There are so many pieces to the puzzle. TMN is a player that helps you. They not only give you funds, but give you a healthy input to develop your film into a very good film that is also marketable.

As a Canadian feature filmmaker, their support is important, today more than ever, especially when you live next door to the giant. [Without them], we wouldn’t be making the movies we are.