Québec, June 11, 2025. – The production volume of the Québec audiovisual industry declined to $2.86 billion in 2023–2024, down 11% (-$356 million) from the previous year. This result was due in part to a drop in the volume of foreign productions and production services, which accounted for 54% of total production volume.
This was revealed in the 2025 edition of Profil de l’industrie audiovisuelle au Québec published today by the Observatoire de la culture et des communications of the Institut de la statistique du Québec.
Film and television production, Québec, 2019-2020 to 2023-2024
Sources
Société de développement des entreprises culturelles, data from the Québec tax credit program.
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission: Discretionary and on-demand services: statistical and financial summaries, 2019-2023; Conventional television: statistical and financial summaries,2019-2023.
Compilation
Institut de la statistique du Québec, Observatoire de la culture et des communications du Québec.
Foreign production down
In 2023–2024, the volume of foreign production and production services decreased by 7% to $1.54 billion, down nearly $120 million from 2022–2023. This decline can be attributed to the impacts of the writers’ strike in the United States that began in May 2023, followed by the actors’ strike in July 2023, which led to the interruption or postponement of shoots, loss of contracts, and layoffs.
Decline for Québec independent television production
In 2023–2024, Québec independent television production volume decreased by 12% to $818 million ($933 million in 2022–2023) due in part to a 20% drop in the production volume of French-language drama, variety, and magazine-type TV programs. These three genres accounted for 65% of television production volume and totalled $538 million, down from $673 million in 2022–2023.
Drop in Québec film production
The volume of Québec independent film production was down sharply from 2022–2023 (-43%), due to a smaller number of productions (60 productions vs. 94 in 2022–2023). The total volume of these productions was $154 million, down from $270 million in 2022–2023. Of that amount, $83 million came from the production of French-language fiction feature films, a decline from the previous year (-53%).
Increase in volume of productions intended for online distribution
The volume of productions intended for online distribution rose 24% to $34 million in 2023–2024 despite a decline in the number of these productions. The rising production cost of series (+119%) is one of the contributing factors.
Profile of the audiovisual industry in Québec
The data in the publication Profil de l’industrie audiovisuelle au Québec, édition 2025 cover the 2023–2024 fiscal year, which ended on March 31, 2024, except for the data on in-house production by broadcasters (August 31, 2023) and film exhibition, which cover the year 2024. This publication was prepared with the contribution of the Association québécoise de la production médiatique (AQPM), the Association québécoise des techniciens et techniciennes de l’image et du son, local union 514 IATSE (AQTIS 514 IATSE), the Association des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Québec (ARRQ), the Quebec Film and Television Council (QFTC), the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC), the Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma (SARTEC), the Table de concertation de l’industrie du cinéma et de la télévision de la Capitale-Nationale, and the Union des artistes (UDA).
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