Scriptwriter Services

Here is how the work lines up. Canadian screenwriting carries a lineage that runs from Margaret Atwood's Toronto literary heritage — The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, and The Edible Woman adapted for screen — through Alice Munro's Nobel-Prize-recognised short-story tradition that has fed multiple feature adaptations including Sarah Polley's Away from Her, Mordecai Richler's Quebec-anchored novels including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Barney's Version, and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient that made the Oscar-winning Anthony Minghella adaptation.

The modern working slate is anchored by Sarah Polley, whose Women Talking won the 2022 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, plus the Denis Villeneuve writing-room circle of Eric Roth on Dune Part Two, Dune, and A Star Is Born with multiple Oscar nominations, Hossein Amini on Drive, and Jon Spaihts on Dune. Our network reaches into the writers' rooms behind Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, Schitt's Creek, Letterkenny, Anne with an E, Workin' Moms, Kim's Convenience, and the streaming-prestige slate of Saving Hope, Mary Kills People, and Cardinal.

Global co-productions are supported by bilingual EN/FR writers fluent in both Canadian-content quota frameworks and the Quebec-distinct cultural-affairs needs that distinguish ARRQ contracts from WGC contracts. Writers hold credentials from L'Inis Montreal's scriptwriting MFA, the Canadian Film Centre founded by Norman Jewison in Toronto, the National Screen Institute Winnipeg, Vancouver Film School's writing-for-film-and-television diploma, and the University of British Columbia and Concordia MFA programs that have fed the auteur-festival slate to TIFF Toronto, Whistler, VIFF, Festival du nouveau cinéma, and the Canadian Screen Awards.

Productions filming under the CPTC sixteen percent federal credit plus stacked Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, and Manitoba provincial credits receive bilingual writers' rooms with showrunner-level leads, story editors, EN/FR translator-adaptors, WGC and ARRQ-compliant contract structures, SOCAN and ACTRA Performers' Rights Society clearances for music and performance rights, and CMRRA mechanical-rights coordination for delivery to CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV, Global, Crave, and the global streamers Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV+, and Disney+.