Ottawa Film Commissioner Sandrine Pechels de Saint Sardos was born and raised in Paris, but has a three-decade career in North America's production sector.

Canada’s national capital offers film and television producers such upsides as a mix of city and rural locations, hundreds of workers ready to work in crews, and a film office to help with planning.

But Ottawa’s film commissioner says she’s vexed by a missing piece of the pitch: a purpose-built sound stage complex, common in many other large Canadian cities, that would allow Ottawa to attract major projects.

“It’s a big deal for me,” said Sandrine Pechels de Saint Sardos, who has been running the film office since 2022, in an interview.

Born and raised in Paris, where she worked in broadcasting, Ms. Pechels de Saint Sardos arrived i

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