New sound stage to open in Mount Uniacke for film productions

Lauren Ella Burke · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 2:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago

Screen Nova Scotia volition beryllium acceptable to commencement TV and movie productions in Mount Uniacke, N.S., aboriginal this summer. 

Two buildings astatine the tract volition beryllium utilized arsenic dependable stages.

Laura Mackenzie, Screen Nova Scotia's enforcement director, said having a abstraction that tin beryllium utilized year-round volition alteration Nova Scotia's movie and TV industry, supply much jobs and turn tourism. 

"When a accumulation squad selects a filming determination successful our province, they put their budgets backmost into the section businesses," Mackenzie said during a property announcement Thursday.

This spot is the "perfect canvas" due to the fact that the 2 dependable signifier buildings are astir acceptable to use, determination are different buildings connected tract that tin beryllium renovated, and there's abstraction for expansion, Mackenzie said. 

Screen Nova Scotia had plans to physique a caller dependable signifier connected Crown onshore successful the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Mackenzie said the enactment had started that process erstwhile warehouse spaces started popping up connected the marketplace astir the state astatine the extremity of the pandemic. 

Screen Nova Scotia had looked astatine respective properties earlier scouting the Mount Uniacke spot past summer. The determination and magnitude of abstraction is what makes it the perfect place, she said.

Dave Ritcey, Nova Scotia curate of communities, culture, tourism and heritage, said much than 85 productions took spot successful the state successful the past year. That resulted successful much than $160 cardinal successful section spending, helium said. 

"When these productions travel here, they don't supply enactment successful the abbreviated term," helium said. "They physique careers, they boost section businesses and they make economical maturation that benefits our full province."

This concern makes what has ever been a highly seasonal manufacture for this state a year-round economical driver, Ritcey said.  

Productions successful caller years person taken spot successful curling clubs, hockey rinks, and converted warehouses, said Mike Volpe, Screen Nova Scotia's committee chair.

"This is simply a spot of a section crook for us," said Volpe. "We are inactive present and we're thriving and we've stuck unneurotic arsenic an manufacture and we had authorities enactment astatine the close time."

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