Playback’s annual Indie List is open for submissions for the 2021 calendar year.

The previous year saw Canada’s screen sector on the road to recovery from pandemic-related production shutdowns. By taking part in our annual list, you’ll provide valuable insight into how Canada’s independent production companies fared in an effort to keep the sector going amid ongoing COVID-19 obstacles and a dramatically changing landscape.

The results will be published in print and online this spring.

How the survey works

The survey measures all production and development by volume on a calendar year basis.

Volume is expressed in terms of total screen-entertainment production budget(s) handled by a company. It does not include advertising, corporate or commercial production. Proprietary independent production and service production are tallied separately. Spend is self-reported and works on the honour system, so please be as accurate as possible.

What we will publish

Total production spend, total development spend, total service production spend, total feature production spend, total production spending broken down by genre.

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.

Click here to access the survey. The deadline to submit is Feb. 24.