Headquartered in London, and about to celebrate their 15th birthday, Union’s new Canadian studio will expand the services they offer to their clients in feature film and High-End TV.
The Montréal studio is based in a refurbished industrial building called Le Nordelec, between Griffintown and Pointe-Saint-Charles. Union’s recruitment drive is already in full swing to grow their Canadian team. They are currently recruiting technical, creative and production roles across all levels.
Union, a fully independent studio, was founded in 2008 by Adam Gascoyne and Tim Caplan. The steady growth of the business has allowed it to be financed by its success resulting in the company’s unrivalled reputation for working on story-led, director-driven projects.
Union’s back catalogue features collaborations with Oscar and BAFTA winning directors including Martin McDonagh, Danny Boyle, Sam Mendes and Stephen Frears, on a huge variety of projects from period dramas to dystopian fantasies as well as everything in between.
Since 2020, the company has invested heavily in growing its CG team and has recently delivered exceptional VFX on projects including For All Mankind, The Irregulars, Operation Mincemeat, Wheel of Time, Moon Knight, Pennyworth and the multi-award winning The Banshees of Inisherin.
Adam and I have backgrounds at bigger VFX studios and our plan with Union was to build a VFX company that had all the best bits from our experiences with the benefits and personability of an independent studio. Over the last 15 years we’ve definitely achieved this in London and, with the ongoing upturn in film and TV projects globally, the time is right to do the same in another region.
We decided on Montréal pre-pandemic. It’s the perfect place ideally positioned for us to work with clients across multiple time zones with an incredible pool of local VFX talent and a generous tax relief system.
All this plus finding a brilliant studio space made it a no-brainer. We are all hugely excited about this next chapter for Union.
Tim Caplan, Founder of Union VFX
Union has just completed work on The Power, a nine-part series for Amazon premiering on 31 March 2023.
