A boost for the Northern Film and Television Industry and Canadore College.

$875,000 from FedNor and the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund will see a nearly 56-hundred square-foot post-production centre built on Canadore’s main campus.

It will include a post-production theatre and studios for colour correction, recording, dialogue replacement and sound mixing, as well as office space and a 24-seat computer lab.

Officials say the new facility will support the growing needs of the northern film industry and help create 26 jobs over the next three years.

Canadore will also be able to offer a new post-production diploma program with this new facility which will be located on Canadore.s main campus.

Once completed, the post-production centre will be the only certified Dolby Premier Studio in North America.

Canadore College president George Burton says the project will go out to tender by next month.

He says construction will start in March.

The plan calls for the computer studio to be open in September and the post production studio itself to be ready in October.

MP Anthony Rota says currently TV shows and movies are filmed here, but the post production work is done elsewhere, so this money will be tapping an untapped resource for the college.

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