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B CORP

Certified

B is for Benefit

With Vancouver Film Studios leading the way, we have dedicated ourselves to becoming a better business; for our employees, our customers, and the rest of the world.

But what does that even mean, to be a better business? We're on a mission to find out exactly what that is, and being a Certified B Corporation is part of that mission.

How We're Doing It

Here's just a few of the things we're doing to promote a healthy workplace, community, and world! Want to see more? Check out our full B Lab assessment with Vancouver Film Studios here.

SUPPORTING

OUR

EMPLOYEES

- Provide a living wage -

- Promote from within -

- Health benefits -

- Incentives for health & wellness activities -

- Paying our employees a living wage -

- Providing cross-skills training -

- Promoting from within -

- Offering incentives for health & wellness initiatives -

- Dispensing health benefits -

- Cross-skills training and facilitate for external professional development opportunities -

- RRSP Matching -

- Paid parental leave -

-Tuition reimbursement -

SUPPORTING

OUR

ENVIRONMENT

- Provide a living wage -

- Promote from within -

- Health benefits -

- Mandatory Carbon Literacy training for all of our employees -

- Carbon neutral since 2008! -

- Community Garden for all employees to use -

- Donating and sponsoring various eco-minded initiatives and charities (ex. REEL Green Earth Day, Still Creek Streamkeepers, & the Sustainable Production Forum)

- Incentives for health & wellness activities -

- Learn about more of our sustainability initiatives on our Sustainability Page -

- Cross-skills training and facilitate for external professional development opportunities -

-Tuition reimbursement -

SUPPORTING

OUR

COMMUNITY

- Provide a living wage -

- Promote from within -

- Health benefits -

- Incentives for health & wellness activities -

- Paid days off for staff to use for volunteering -

- Amended our recruiting process to conduct unbiased hiring -

- Sponsering local film festivals and production companies (ex. Crazy 8s, UBC POV, Primary Imaging, & COJAX Industries) -

- Donating gear to schools with film programs in need -

- Cross-skills training and facilitate for external professional development opportunities -

- Donating and sponsoring various community initiatives and charities (ex. Vancouver General Hospital, Take A Hike Foundation, Collingwood Neighbourhood House) -

-Tuition reimbursement -

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Backlot is now a Certified B Corporation

Pacific Backlot
Apr 30, 2021
1 min read

Updated: Feb 9, 2022

Pacific Backlot is now the first Lighting & Grip company to become a Certified B Corporation! To learn more about what this means, head over to our Certified B Corporation page.