About

A pilot project at Cinespace Studios, 777 Kipling.

The SOS DEPOT team comprises experienced players and sustainability advocates from across and within the industry: Producer and PM Mary Anne Waterhouse, Production Designer Marian Wihak, Film Materials aficionado Pete Miskimmin and Construction Coordinator Joe Madziak. For many years, both individually and collectively, we have imagined this kind of facility’s existence and are thrilled to see it realized as a pilot project in collaboration with Cinespace Studios at 777 Kipling, one of Toronto’s largest and most vital studio hubs.

The SOS DEPOT will operate as an independent not-for-profit organization for one full ‘pilot’ year and hopefully beyond. The DEPOT will have a curated collection of basic, frequently used scenery assets and materials, such as flats, whalers, jacks and subfloor, and all items will be inventoried, and listed on the SOS website so that potential users can identify and communicate in advance the items they wish to rent or purchase.

Our model will be primarily rental-based helping to support the concept and methodology of design-build circularity, but will also allow negotiated longer-term arrangements in which assets will be returned upon a project’s completion. We will establish a fair, and comprehensive fee structure. Ultimately, these fees will help to offset operating costs and allow the SOS DEPOT to continue beyond its initial pilot term.

Made possible by

The organizations putting real support behind reuse in Ontario film and TV.

Cinespace Studios
City of Toronto
Ontario Green Screen
Ontario Creates
IATSE Local 873 — Motion Picture Technicians
Canadian Media Producers Association
Directors Guild of Canada — Ontario
NABET 700-M Unifor
Full Frame Signs Ltd.