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Top 25 Nonprofit documentary film companies based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 122 nonprofit documentary film companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 976 professional contacts across them, including 411 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers nonprofit documentary film companies headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest nonprofit documentary film companies based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 525 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The NFB is Canada’s public producer of award-winning creative documentaries, auteur animation, interactive stories and participatory experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hot Docs, North America’s leading documentary festival, conference and market, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing and celebrating the art of documentary and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Les Films de l’Autre est un OBNL dont la mission est de favoriser la recherche formelle et la liberté de création en cinéma indépendant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Create.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondées en 2006 à Montréal par Marie-France Bazzo, Les Productions Bazzo Bazzo se sont données comme mission de produire du contenu intelligent, original, accessible et ludique…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Committed to the power of distinctive storytelling, Rotating Planet produces and distributes an extensive library of award winning documentaries, TV series and short films.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EyeSteelFilm is a documentary film and interactive media company dedicated to using cinematic expression as a catalyst for social and political change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “White Pine Pictures is an internationally respected producer of award-winning documentary and dramatic programming for the world’s leading broadcasters and distributors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DOXA is presented by the Documentary Media Society, a Vancouver based non-profit, charitable society (incorporated in 1998) devoted to presenting independent and innovative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Funambules Médias travaille à l’avènement d’une société juste et inclusive à travers la production vidéo, la formation et la diffusion de cinéma documentaire, en favorisant…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Loaded Pictures is dynamic film company that has a history of making excellent political and social documentaries and films.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are interested in projects that take a fresh look at societal issues while educating and entertaining a diverse audience, and their creations take many forms: documentary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re creating hopeful stories driving allied impact for social and environmental justice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lantern Films, founded in 2015, is dedicated to producing impactful and visually compelling documentaries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded five years ago by Caitie Drewery, Graeme Mathieson, and Steve Lang, Bonfire is driven by a documentary sensibility that informs every project.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2007, Cinevolution is the winner of the 2012 Richmond Arts Awards for Artistic Innovation and the Professional Resident Art Group in the Richmond Media Lab.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “La Ruelle Films (formerly Productions de la Ruelle) is an award-winning documentary film production company based in Montreal, Quebec and led by Guylaine Maroist and Eric Ruel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Pitch (in plain speak) Hey there!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PERIPHERIA is a film production company founded in by passionate filmmakers and producers Yanick Letourneau and Diego Briceno.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RealWorld Media Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ancrée dans le divertissement intelligent et grand public, la compagnie met sur pied des films et séries documentaires ainsi que des magazines à portée humaine, sans complaisance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a media production company working in documentary and narrative fiction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Simba Creative is a Calgary based film production company specializing in documentaries, drama and original content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VANCOUVER | LONDON | NEW YORK We make films to inspire change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en mai 2003 à Montréal, Metafilms voit le jour afin d’offrir à de jeunes auteurs atypiques les moyens d’exprimer leur vision du cinéma et du monde.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: nonprofit documentary film companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names nonprofit documentary film companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of nonprofit documentary film companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name nonprofit documentary film companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Nonprofit documentary film companies based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 122 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among nonprofit documentary film companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “nonprofit documentary film companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names nonprofit documentary film companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among nonprofit documentary film companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 411 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Nonprofit documentary film companies by metro
- Nonprofit documentary film companies in Toronto42
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names nonprofit documentary film companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many nonprofit documentary film companies are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 122 nonprofit documentary film companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
National Film Board Of Canada, headquartered in Montreal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most nonprofit documentary film companies?
Toronto leads with 42 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (22) and Vancouver (19).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 411 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 122 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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