Fae Pictures Inc. @FaePictures Los Angeles | +1 323 400 0610 www.faepictures.com [email protected]

CORPORATE PROFILE

The global media landscape today is ripe for a production company to declaratively operate with a modus operandi to DECOLONIZE HOLLYWOOD.

Enter Fae Pictures. Founded in 2017 in Toronto & Los Angeles, Fae Pictures is a storytelling production company with a mandate to “Engage audiences with stories rooted in the perspectives of the Other.” We are committed to developing, producing, and delivering stories in a variety of mediums that impact the hearts and minds of audiences, while maximizing private investment through strategic packaging, government-based incentives, and innovative storytelling practices.

Loosely defined under the categories of LGBTQ+, people of color, women, and differently-abled people, the Other encompasses a community of storytellers and audiences that have been wholly underserved in the motion picture industry, and one that we seek to have a strong and integral relationship with.

The company’s strategy for employing its model has three key tenets that have been culled through experience in a disruptive and innovative media environment:

1. Engaging stories – Invest a majority of Fae Pictures’ capital into the curatorial and selective development, production, and exploitation of a lucrative catalogue of high-quality original stories; 2. Engaging audiences – Find the most effective and innovative means and medium of telling each story that not only reaches audiences, but keeps them actively invested as opposed to passively interested; 3. Engaging the Other – Work with under-represented talent and audiences domestically and internationally in marginalized spaces including the LGBTQ, people of color, women, and people who are differently-abled communities.

Fae Pictures Inc. @FaePictures Los Angeles | Toronto +1 323 400 0610 www.faepictures.com [email protected]

THE TEAM

SHANT JOSHI - President Shant Joshi is a Indo-Canadian producer based in Toronto and Los Angeles. His credits include the features, Porcupine Lake (TIFF, Busan, Rome, Outfest), Last Car (director John Greyson), and Framing Agnes (Tribeca, Inside Out, Outfest – Best Experimental); the hit web-series, Teenagers, Dekkoo original series, I’m Fine, and more than 15 short films that have traveled the global festival circuit. Joshi co- founded the Future of Film Showcase as a launchpad for emerging Canadian filmmakers, and he previously worked in literary representation and packaging at Buchwald and Lit Entertainment Group (fka Madhouse Entertainment). He is a recent alum of the 's Producers' Lab.

LINDSAY BLAIR GOELDNER – Director of Production Lindsay is a film producer and karaoke enthusiast based in Toronto, Canada. She began producing in the education-technology sphere in New York City before moving to Toronto and working as a commercial producer for clients such as Google, McDonald's and General Mills. In February 2019, Lindsay began freelance production in narrative and documentary film with a focus on developing and showcasing new stories from fresh perspectives. After completing the Producer Lab program at the Canadian Film Centre in December 2019, she is working on a feature-length documentary titled, The Archivist (dir. Tricia Hagoriles), is developing a web series, The Morning After (dir. Tricia Hagoriles), and is in prep to produce her first narrative feature for Chandler Levack’s debut Talent to Watch film, I Like Movies. She also recommends films on TikTok.

ABDUL MALIK – Director of Development Hailing from a family of Pakistani immigrants and with a degree in Film Production from , Abdul is an Edmonton-based photojournalist and screenwriter. Most recently, Abdul penned PEACE BY CHOCOLATE, a Telefilm-financed biopic of Tareq Haddad, a Syrian refugee who built a chocolate factory in Nova Scotia. Abdul’s short films have played internationally in Europe and Asia as well as at the National Screen Institute’s Short Festival and Toronto Youth Shorts, earning him a Special Commendation for Cultural Relevance. His work as a freelance photojournalist has surrounded such institutions as the CBC, the Advocate, Alex Javier (O.C.), Greenpeace Canada, Random House, and The Centre for Race & Culture. Abdul is also co-host of the popular politically left-leaning movie review podcast, Kino Lefter.

SIMONE SWABY – Executive Assistant Simone Swaby is a Jamaican-Canadian filmmaker from Toronto, Canada. She has been enamoured with the power of images and storytelling from a young age. Simone aspires to produce make visually rich and socially relevant films that highlight the stories of BIPOC and LGBTQ2A+ communities. She is a graduating student at York University’s B.F.A. Film Production program.