Discover Canada with our new Showcase, unveiling the latest projects from creatives across The Great White North.

Welcome to our new edition of Showcase Canada. This edition includes the work of talented photographers, directors, production companies and talent representatives.

Discover the unparalleled talent and professional services available for advertising campaigns across Canada. Keep reading to watch a short film on the Ferrari Purosangue, explore the incredible roster of a women-owned and operated agency from Toronto, and discover a variety of locations that can double for almost anywhere in the world.

Our featured editorial was captured by Marley Hutchinson with model Hanna Smetana. Marley is a British-born photographer based out of Vancouver and London. Further discover outstanding creatives in our Canada Directory and previous issues of Showcase Canada.

Here’s a selection of forthcoming events you shouldn’t miss:

CONTACT Photography Festival is Toronto's annual city-wide festival encompasing exhibitions, public art installations, and programs that feature the work of local and international lens-based artists.

Located in the heart of beautiful Montreal, Fantasia is a cultural and professional destination point, and since its first edition, the festival’s ever-growing popularity has attracted the attention of the international film industry alongside a legion of attendees from across the world. From July 18 to August 4.

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch is the first major retrospective of work by the multimedia artist Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan). For more than 50 years, Niro has been creating art reflecting contemporary life and building upon Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) philosophies, deep understandings of history and a woman-centred worldview.

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors and photo & film production companies working out of Canada.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Toronto (Photo / Film) and Vancouver (Photo / Film) directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• The Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto presents The 1960s: A Selection of Vintage Prints from The Keystone Press Agency Canada. The Keystone Agency played a vital role by distributing images to Canadian newspapers, magazines, and other publications throughout the world. Their archive is vast, comprising over 500,000 original photographs and transparencies. From 6th July to 19th August.
• Fashion Fictions surveys experimental design practices that exist at the intersection of fashion and other modes of cultural production. International in scope, the exhibition explores the increasing influence of research-based, materially driven practices on the global fashion scene. At Vancouver Artgallery until 9th October.
• Toronto International Film Festival will take place from 7th to 17th September, and curated ticket packages are on pre-sale.

Our cover image was shot by Kelly Jacob.

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors and photo & film production companies working out of Canada.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Toronto (Photo / Film) and Vancouver (Photo / Film) directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its 25th edition at the vanguard of international genre cinema. The festival has been responsible for breaking countless new talents and introducing international greats to new audiences. The festival will take place at various venues of the city of Montreal, from 14th July to to 3rd August.
• The international group of artists in Ghosts of the Machine reminds us that cyberspace is an extension of our societies, economy, and ecosphere. Through the glowing interfaces associated with digital media, these artists constantly point back to the world offline. Until 14th August at he Polygon Gallery in Vancouver.
• The Stephen Bulger gallery presents “Canada & To Be a Dancer”, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of work by Peter Varley. This exhibition celebrates aspects of Varley’s contributions made over four decades through a selection of vintage B&W photographs, as well as newly printed colour photographs from vintage colour slides. Until 27th August at the gallery's location in Toronto.

Our cover image was shot by Trevor Brady for State of Underdress.

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, photo production companies and talent agents working out of Canada.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Toronto (Photo / Film) and Vancouver (Photo / Film) directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• We Buy Gold. A collective exhibition bringing together primarily emerging LGBTQ+ artists living and working in Canada. The exhibition foregrounds the perspectives of younger queer generations. Largely using various forms of portraiture, but also still life and sculptural elements, these artists are concerned less with representing queerness and more with performing, challenging, and interrogating it. Until 6th November at Gallery TPW, Toronto.
• Breaking the Frame showcases many accomplished artists of the 19th and 20th centuries – from Malick Sidibé and Florence Henri to Lang Jingshan, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Henry Fox Talbot, Robert Frank, and Dorothea Lange – who have helped shape photography, offering a global perspective on the medium that pushes our understanding beyond the conventional. Until 22nd January 2022 at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. 

Our cover image was shot by Javier Lovera. 

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, photo production companies and talent agents working out of Canada.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Toronto (Photo / Film) and Vancouver (Photo / Film) directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events, both part of the annual CONTACT photography festival:

• Christina Leslie. Absence/Presence: Morant Bay. Exhibition focused on photographer's personal meditation on loss, absence, and resilience. Shot with intimacy and directness, these portraits record the resiliency of the people whose lives Christina Leslie continues to document. BAND Gallery, Toronto. 
• Featuring recent video works, a group exhibition Performing Lives boldly bridges the supposed gap between documentary and entertainment, information and spectacle, fact and fiction. The exhibition can be viewed online. 
• Evelyn Bencicova’s Cure is an amalgamation of two recent bodies of work: Alice, and Artificial Tears. Both stem from personal experience, the artist having grown up in post-Soviet Slovakia. The exhibition can be viewed online. 

Our cover image was shot by Dave Hynes. 

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, directors, photo production companies and talent agents working out of Canada.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Toronto (Photo / Film) and Vancouver (Photo / Film) directories.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• Larry Towell: Vintage Prints. A solo exhibition by the world-renowned Canadian photojournalist highlights Larry Towell’s impressive 40-year career in photography and includes a selection of his earliest prints made of some of his best-known images, as well as previously unseen works.  Until 21st December at Toronto's Stephen Bulger Gallery.
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year. The longest-running and most prestigious nature photography competition in the world. The 55th editon of the competition reflects on the astonishing diversity of our natural world. The categories include Animal Portraits, Urban Wildlife, Behaviour of Birds, and Under Water, while a hard-hitting documentary section features two photojournalism portfolios. From November 23rd to March 29th 2020 at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. 

Our cover image was shot by Genevieve Charbonneau, represented by FUZE Reps. 

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photographers, CGI artists and hair and make-up artists working out of Canada.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production are available in our Toronto (Photo / Film) and Vancouver (Photo / Film) directories.

Brands including Pepsi, Rip Curl, McDonald's, Reebok, Sappho Cosmetics, Billabong, Alcon, BCAA, GoDaddy among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to catch our recommended events:

• Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, until 31st March.
• CONTACT - 23rd edition of the annual photography festival, featuring over 200 exhibitions and other events. Toronto, 1st - 31st May.
• DOXA Documentary Film Festival will take place 2nd May - 12th May in different venues around Vancouver.

Our cover image was shot by Toronto-based photographer Alex Evans. 

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. We present the very best of the Canadian visual media industry.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Toronto (Photo / Film) and Vancouver (Photo / Film) directories. 

Brands and publications including McDonald's, Variety Magazine, BBC America, American Apparel, Nordica, Willowbrook, and Sandbox, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• Places in History is the first solo exhibition of work by Dawoud Bey, American photographer and educator renowned for his large-scale colour portraits of adolescents and other often marginalized subjects. Until 22nd December at Toronto's Stephen Bulger Gallery.
• Guo Pei: Couture Beyond is the first Canadian exhibition devoted to the work of Guo Pei, China’s preeminent couturière. Until 20th January at Vancouver Art Gallery.

Our cover image was shot by Samuel Engelking.

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. We present the very best of the Canadian visual media industry.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Toronto Photo and Film directories. Vancouver directory, listing the best photo and film production industry creatives and companies in the city will be launched very soon. 

Brands and publications including Campbell's Soup, Fairmont  Hotels, Lamborgini, McDonald's, Sharp Magazine, Smirnoff, and Linkoln, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• Moemoeā, a solo exhibition by Canadian artist Brendan George Ko, until 10th March at Contact Gallery, Toronto.
• 22nd edition of The Latin American Film Festival (LAFF) - from 1st April to 31st May, at Richcraft Hall, Ottawa. 

Our cover image was shot by Natasha Gerschon, Natasha is represented by Sting. 

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading food and drink, still life, people, portrait, sports, lifestyle, advertising and architecture photographers currently working out of Canada. As well as the country's top photo and film production companies, talent agents, location services and scouts and equipment rentals for photography and film production. 

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production in our Toronto Photo and Film directories.

Companies including Chanel, Unicef, Gucci, Lavazza, Flaunt Magazine, 20th Century Fox, Molson Canadian, L'Óreal, Nespresso, BBC, Essential Magazine, and Sharp Magazine, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

Be sure not to miss our recommended events:

• World Press Photo 2017 - until 13th August in Ottawa, until 1st October in Montreal, from 3rd to 24th October in Toronto and from 20th October to 12th November in Chicoutimi.
• Canada - photography exhibition by Mark Lewis, until 10th December at Art Gallery of Ontario.

Our cover image was shot by Alkan Emin, a renowned Canadian fashion photographer, currently based in Toronto. 

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. This edition features some of the top photo and film production and service companies, photographers, retouchers, stylists, hair and make-up artists, photographers' and illustrators' agents, photographers' associations, studio and equipment rental companies based in Canada.

Companies and editorials such as McDonald's, Huawei, Chanel, Coca-Cola, Flaunt Magazine, Audi, BBC, Essential Magazine, Sky TV, Hollywood Reporter, Olay, and 20th Century Fox Studios, among others, have trusted these professionals with their latest advertising campaigns and editorial shoots.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Toronto Photo and Film directories, as well as in Vancouver, Montreal and other destinations in Canada. 

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay, from 2nd to 27th November.
• 34th Japan Film Festival  - from 4th to 5th November in Ottawa.
• World Press Photo 2016 - until 25th October in Toronto and from 3rd to 27th November in Chicoutimi.
• Capture - photography festival, from 1st to 28th of April 2017 in Vancouver. 

Our cover story was shot by Pooya Nabei. 

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. We present the very best of the Canadian visual media industry.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Toronto Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay, until 29th November.
• Nævus - Josée Pedneault photography exhibition, from 19th November to 23rd Janaury 2016. The opening reception on 18th November 6 pm at CONTACT gallery, Toronto.
• 30th European Union Film Festival - from 20th November to 10th December 10 at ByTowne Cinema, Ottawa.
• Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival - deadline to register: 4th December. 

Our cover image was shot by André Pinces. 

Welcome to Showcase Canada, brought to you by Production Paradise. We present the very best of the Canadian visual media industry.

More creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production can be found in our Toronto Photo and Film directories.

Be sure to check out our featured events:

• In Case of No Emergency: The Films of Ruben Östlund, on 28th March at Carleton University's River Building Theatre, Ottawa.
• Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, from 1st to 31st May at CONTACT gallery, Toronto.

Our cover image was shot by Tina Chang.