Behind every frame in Ontario’s Film, TV & Digital Media: our members at work
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NABET 700-M is a union representing nearly 3,000 skilled film, television, and digital media technicians across Ontario. Across 14 technical departments.
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We scale crews to each production, connecting producers with skilled technicians, while protecting our members’ rights, safety, and fair compensation.
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Our technicians support productions for leading networks and streamers, including Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC, HBO Max, NBC, and more.
Departments
The crafts that power Ontario’s film industry
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Ensures consistency in a film’s story, visuals, and performances across all shots and scenes, making sure everything matches from take to take.
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Provides on-set support across multiple departments, assisting with tasks such as moving equipment, handling materials, and supporting crews to keep production running efficiently.
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Prepares, paints, and finishes sets and scenic elements, creating textures, colors, and effects that achieve the desired look and realism for filming.
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Creates practical effects on set, such as explosions, weather simulations, fire, and mechanical effects, to enhance action and visual storytelling safely and realistically.
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Builds, installs, and maintains physical sets and structures for productions, ensuring they are safe, functional, and ready for shooting.
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Designs, sets up, and operates lights on set to create the desired mood, atmosphere, and visibility for each scene while supporting the director’s visual vision.
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Sources, creates, manages, and maintains all objects handled or used by actors on set, ensuring they are accurate, functional, and ready for filming.
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Manages vehicles and logistics on set, ensuring cast, crew, and equipment are safely and efficiently moved to and from locations. They also handle on-set vehicle operations required for filming, supporting scenes that involve cars or other vehicles.
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Designs, creates, sources, and maintains clothing and accessories for actors, ensuring costumes support the story, time period, and character throughout filming.
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Designs and applies makeup to actors, enhancing or transforming their appearance to match characters, maintain continuity, and support the story on screen.
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Captures and manages all audio on set, including dialogue, ambient sounds, and effects, ensuring clear, high-quality recordings for post-production.
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Land Acknowledgment
Our work takes place on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. It is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.