Everything you need to manage your Canadian productions.
Quick, accurate, compliant payroll from the industry’s most-trusted provider.
Streamline payroll with EP's fully integrated, digital payroll service and solutions specifically designed to support Canadian studio and indie productions.
- SmartStart→
Get crews up and running faster and streamline your workflows with EP’s secure digital onboarding solution. - EP On Location (EPOL)→
Transform your payroll with the leading solution for entering timesheets, calculating payroll and submitting it to EP for payment. - EP Residency→
Securely collect, verify, manage and store residency support documents with the industry’s only digital residency solution. - Payroll→
With EP’s deep expertise in entertainment payroll and federal and provincial regulations, we ensure accurate, efficient payroll for cast, crew and background talent every time. - MyEP→
With myEP, crew and talent can view their current and historic pay information, access tax documents, set up direct deposit and more.
Track and manage your production finances with the industry’s most advanced solutions.
Save time and keep your production finances on track with EP's fully integrated budgeting and production accounting solutions.
- SmartAccounting→
The most advanced cost management system in entertainment, with real-time dashboards, easy document uploading, digital payment processing and more.
- Movie Magic Budgeting→
The industry standard for building and adjusting film and TV production budgets, integrated directly with SmartAccounting for accurate cost tracking and forecasting. - SmartPO +Payables→
Streamline purchase order and AP management. Two-way integration with SmartAccounting ensures accurate invoicing and automated vendor certification and approvals.
- CASHétPay→
Pay your vendors digitally, securely and paper-free with CASHétPay, which is fully integrated with SmartAccounting.
Power every phase of production from prep to wrap.
Automate script breakdowns, manage schedules and maintain continuity with tools built for any production.
- Movie Magic Scheduling→
Convert scripts into detailed, conflict-free schedules. Seamlessly integrated with Movie Magic Budgeting for accurate cost forecasting and faster budget creation.
- SyncOnSet→
Manage continuity and share photos across costumes, props, hair and makeup.
- Scenechronize→
Share, manage and deliver files securely from one centralized, cloud-based hub.
Manage multiple productions with ease with industry-leading enterprise solutions.
From managing documents digitally across shows to making data-driven decisions, EP's enterprise solutions are designed to ensure smoother, more efficient and secure productions.
- SmartHub→
Everything you need to manage and archive all your production documents and assets on one platform. Remain audit ready with all your production data instantly available. - Payroll & Labor Insights (PLI)→
Detailed payroll reporting and analysis with workforce KPIs and metrics for proactive problem solving. - Production Accounting Analytics (PAA)
Transform your production data into actionable intelligence, with a consolidated view of accounting data across all your global productions. Increase accuracy and improve cost efficiencies.
Expert support accessing Canada’s leading film and TV tax credits.
Canada offers some of the world’s most competitive screen production incentives, including the Federal Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Production Services Tax Credit (PSTC), and generous provincial programs across British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and beyond.
EP incentives specialists help film, television, and streaming productions identify, secure, and maximize available funding – managing the full process from application through to final claim. Whether you’re producing in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal or emerging production hubs, we ensure you capture the full value of Canada’s tax credit landscape.
Canada Ratebook
Access the industry's only comprehensive, Canada province-specific ratebook.
The Canada Ratebook is published separately from the Paymaster Rate Guide and is available to EP clients only, by request.
Email epcmarketing@ep.com to request a personalized Canada Ratebook→
Entertainment Partners provides Canada’s most comprehensive suite of film and TV production finance and management solutions for Canadian productions, including entertainment payroll, tax incentives administration and industry-leading budgeting and cost management software.
With decades of experience supporting studio and independent film and TV productions across Canada, our local team understands federal and provincial regulations and the unique needs of Canadian screen production.
THE production partner to the Canadian entertainment industry.
THE production partner to the Canadian entertainment industry.
THE production partner to the Canadian entertainment industry.
THE production partner to the Canadian entertainment industry.
Local expertise Canadian productions can trust.
With a lifetime of industry experience, our local experts have deep knowledge of payroll, labor and tax law, production incentives, production finance and regulatory and legislative issues and can support you throughout the entire arc of your Canadian productions.
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Why Choose EP for your Canadian Productions
Entertainment Partners is the only provider of film and TV payroll, production finance, production management and incentives solutions that offers a consistent global experience to studios producing in both the US and Canada. Studios can maximise their production budgets and make the most of what each territory has to offer with expert support from EP’s global team of incentives experts. When it’s time to shoot, EP’s globally leading solutions Movie Magic Scheduling, Movie Magic Budgeting, SmartStart, EP On Location, SmartAccounting, SmartPO +Payables and CASHét are fully customised for Canadian productions, ensuring studios comply with federal and provincial laws and regulations while maintaining consistent financial reporting across territories. Plus, EP’s enterprise solutions Payroll & Labor Insights (PLI) and Production Accounting Analytics (PAA) transform global production data into actionable intelligence, giving studios complete visibility over their production activity and driving quick, informed decision making across their Canadian slate.
EP's flexible industry-leading accounting solutions Movie Magic Budgeting, SmartAccounting, SmartPO +Payables and CASHét simplify production finance for indie producers, ensuring real-time visibility, seamless cost control and instant, compliant payments to cast, crew and vendors. EP’s local team have decades of experience in federal and provincial production payroll and provide unmatched hands-on support to ensure your cast and crew are paid on time. EP is also the only Canadian payroll provider with in-house incentives experts, who work with productions to help them maximise the available tax relief while eliminating the administrative burden.
Entertainment Partners is the industry-leading expert in federal and provincial regulations ensuring the most accurate, efficient Canadian payroll. EP brings the only fully integrated, digital solution specifically designed to manage Canadian productions, including the industry’s only digital residency solution and the industry's most secure payroll file sharing solution in EP Online.
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