Habitat is the Canadian Film Centre's new media lab. Created in 1997, Habitat New Media Lab provides a unique training and production think-tank environment designed for both emerging and accomplished new media content developers. Based on a cycle of training, production and community building Habitat New Media Lab is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning training and production facility.Habitat New Media Lab recognizes that as technologies revolutionize our lives, new opportunities for writers, designers, producers, programmers, filmmakers, visual artists and creative thinkers are emerging. More importantly, the need for talented, forward thinking and technology-savvy content creators is becoming more critical than ever.Habitat is committed to nurturing the development of new talent and new projects for the Canadian and international industry and to push this evolution forward. Attracting residents who are drawn to one-of-a-kind training and production environment - encouraging exploration, entrepreneurial drive and boundless imagination - Habitat provides the highest level of analytical and practical new media training in Canada.