Beyond the Treaty Network

Canada's coproduction treaty network currently covers fifty-seven territories. The Rubedo database aims to cover all of human economic history regardless of treaty status. Creative expenditure in gold doesn't stop at borders, and neither does the audience for what we make.

If your country isn't on the treaty list, we still want to talk to you. There are two pathways worth knowing about, and we're actively building both.

The immediate one is distribution. Treaties govern how films get produced as official coproductions, but they don't govern where films get sold. Rubedo's work is intended for global audiences, and the people best positioned to open new markets are people with genuine connections to those markets. Be it via heritage, family networks, professional relationships, language, or just deep curiosity about a specific corner of the world. If that sounds like you, regardless of your current industry position, we want to hear from you.

The longer-term one is bilateral treaty advocacy. Canada's treaty network has expanded steadily over decades, and every current treaty started as a conversation between people who believed the corridor was worth building. Real distribution activity in a non-treaty territory as evidence that Canadian creative work has commercial appetite there is the kind of foundation that makes formal treaty conversations possible at the policy level. The first pathway feeds the second. Both take time. Both are worth starting now.

Rubedo is building infrastructure for cross-border creative collaboration, not just within the existing treaty network, but toward what the network could become. If your country isn't connected to it yet, that's an opportunity we're interested in exploring.