Producers carry the creative.Let us carry the business side.
Nickel Entertainment Partners helps film and television producers in Toronto and across Ontario handle financing, tax credits, and production accounting, end-to-end, or only when you need it. Led by a producer who knows the work from the inside.
# The Problem
You didn't get into this to do paperwork.
Producers often juggle all the business-affairs elements on top of the creative, and do it all themselves.
Hiring another producer at your level for an entire project isn’t in the budget. Neither is bringing on a junior person to train.
So you do hours of busy work after a full day of creativity. And that’s when things start to tilt.
# The Solution
We can help on your terms.
On an as-needed basis. We don’t have to be there for the entire length of your project.
We handle the business-affairs tasks that need handling, at the moments they need it, without breaking your budget.
You determine what that looks like, and when it happens. So you can focus on what no one else but you can do.
# Our Services
Three ways we partner with you
Whether you need a thinking partner, an extra set of hands, or a strategist, here’s how we plug in.
Collaborate
We work alongside you on co-productions and co-ventures, tax-credit and interprovincial opportunities, accounting processes, and production budgets, financing plans, and cashflows
Clear it off your plate
Hand us the work that's eating your evenings: contract deliverables, tax-credit calculations, production accounting and bookkeeping, interim financing applications, cost reporting, final reporting to funders, and contract administration.
Consult
We help you identify funding for development and production, finesse your corporate profile, and position your project for marketplace success.
1
The journey
We’re with you from first budget to final report
2
Intro
Most producers need different things at different stages, so we’re built to step in at any point, for all of it or just one piece.
3
Beginning
We build your budgets, craft the financing plans, complete the funding applications, and close the financing agreements that fund the work.
4
Middle
We negotiate the interim bank financing, build a Production Start Kit of contracts and cost-report templates, and run production accounting as you shoot.
5
End
We close the books for the Auditor’s Report and complete the final reporting to funders, finishing your project clean and on record.
6
Closing line
For smaller productions and businesses, we’re available on an as-needed basis only, you decide what you need, and when you need it.
# Why Nickel EP
Business affairs from someone who's been in your chair
Nickel EP was founded by Nicole McKechnie, who spent the first part of her 25-year career as a producer and director before turning her focus to the business side. That matters: she understands the creative pressures, the timelines, and what’s at stake, because she’s lived them.
Nickel EP is a bespoke consultancy of producers, line producers, and production accountants, supporting film and television creatives at every level of experience, from first-timers to seasoned production companies.
# Experience & credibility
25+ years across Canada's leading broadcasters
Over her career, Nicole has worked with national and international broadcasters including CBC, TVO, TFO, APTN, YTV, Bell Media, Canal D, & SRC, spanning children’s, documentary, and scripted programming, and inter-provincial and international treaty co-productions.
# Contact Us
Let's talk about what you need.
Tell us where you are in your production and what’s weighing on you. Start with a free 30-minute consultation, no commitment to the whole project.
