Producer Profiles 73 74 Producer Profiles Production Companies Vanessa Loewen Meghan Duffy Animiki See Digital Vanessa Loewen Black Watch Entertainment Meghan Duffy Production Inc. Manager of Production Established in 2010 President 204.688.7259 Established in 2008 Cell: [email protected] [email protected] Black Watch Entertainment is Current Projects: Black and White; Animiki See Digital Production Current Projects: Fit First Season 3; a service production company Cause for a Cure; The Good Cop produces Aboriginal television 1491 specializing in television Past Projects: Winnipeg Direct; The and digital media content Past Projects: Cashing In; Breaking production and creative Taking of Marty; Meghan’s Meal of the including interactive and New Beats; Fit First; Aboriginal Day producing. Meghan Duffy, Morning alternative multiplatform Live; Tiga Talk! president of Black Watch content. They create content Entertainment, has worked on through domestic and shows such as Dragon’s Den, international co-production Entertainment Tonight Canada, treaties and partnerships. CTV Morning Live and Breakfast Animiki See is a leading Television. Meghan Duffy provider of Aboriginal content works as a creative producer for television, the Internet and and television host bringing other alternative content delivery great content to the Canadian network services. television scene. 211- 323 Portage Avenue Tel: 204.899.2599 Winnipeg, MB R3B 2C1 Fax: 204.221.4750 Tel: 204.926.3128 ext 1 Fax: 204.989.2349 TF: 877.733.0999 TTY: 888.371.7659 aninikisee.ca 75 Production Companies Dino Schiavone BlinkWorks Media Lisanne Pajot & James Swirsky Bright Eyes and Ears Films Dino Schiavone Established in 2003 Producers Inc. (BEEF Inc.) Producer / Director 204.293.4164 Established in 1986 Tel: BlinkWorks is an innovative, Current Projects: Indie Game: The [email protected] award-winning production Movie, feature documentary Bright Eyes and Ears Films company that makes feature Past Projects: Grow Dammit!, TV Inc. (BEEF Inc.) produces films, TV series and new media series; Digital Dad, TV series high-quality documentaries, projects. Awards: Sundance Film Festival docu-drama, corporate and Winner for Best Editing in World educational videos. With 25 years Tel: 204.995.4915 Documentary Cinema; Sheffield Doc / experience in film, video and Fest Special Honour Youth Jury Award; television production, BEEF Inc. [email protected] Best Pitch WestDoc Conference; NSI blink-works.com has produced award-winning Short Film Winner youth programming to extreme indiegamethemovie.com arctic filming, from overseas productions in war zones to exotic vacation destinations. 1121 Manitoba Ave. Winnipeg, MB R2X 0K6 Tel: 204.582.3700 Fax: 204.257.0131 76 Production Companies Phyllis Laing Larry Giesbrecht Buffalo Gal Pictures Inc. Phyllis Laing CLG Communications Inc. Larry Giesbrecht Established in 1994 President and Producer Established in 1991 President, Executive Producer Tel: 204.956.2777 x 103 larry@clgcommunications Established in 1994, Buffalo [email protected] CLG Communications Inc. is a Current Projects: Spirit Shadows, Gal Pictures develops and Liz Jarvis Winnipeg-based independent documentary; Hockey on Horseback, produces diverse theatrical and Producer film and television production documentary; Fire in the Sky, television projects by creating Tel: 204.956.2777 x 104 company that was created in documentary series collaborative relationships with [email protected] 1991 with a vision to entertain Past Projects: Children who creative talent and building Jean du Toit audiences worldwide with moving work, documentary; Heart of the successful co-production Head of Business Affairs, Producer and diverse stories. Working City, documentary series; Aged to partnerships. Their team includes Tel: 204.956.2777 x 105 with a creative and innovative Perfection, documentary [email protected] experienced producers and team with decades of combined Awards: Canadian Association staff with expertise in business Current Projects: Guy Maddin’s experience, CLG has taken their of Broadcasters: Documentary affairs, accounting and tax Séances, feature; Ciudades Diesertas storytelling to five continents, Gold; AMPIA Awards; Al Jazeera (Deserted Cities), feature; All The International Documentary Film credit administration. Buffalo Wrong Reasons, feature and sells programming in Festival: Finalist Gal producers have completed numerous countries worldwide. over twenty feature films, Past Projects: Keyhole, feature; As a global and domestic Less Than Kind, TV Series; Mad Ship, ten television dramas, eight feature; The Stone Angel, feature; High producer of content, CLG documentaries and over 50 hours Life, feature creates, develops, produces and of television series. co-produces for domestic and Awards: 4 Gemini Awards including international markets. 333-70 Arthur Street Best Comedy Program or Series (Less than Kind, 2010); Fipresci Prize at the Winnipeg, MB R3B 1G7 Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes 122 Charing Cross Crescent Tel: 204.956.2777 Film Festival (Amreeka, 2009); Best Winnipeg, MB R2N 1N5 Fax: 204.956.7999 Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto Tel: 204.253.5126 International Film Festival (My [email protected] Winnipeg, 2007) clgcommunications.ca buffalogalpictures.com 77 Production Companies Noah Decter-Jackson Clinton Skibitzky Complex Games Inc. Noah Decter-Jackson DACAPO Productions Inc Clinton Skibitzky Established in 2002 President / Project Lead Established in 1998 President Tel: 204.997.4260 Tel: 204.956.2867 x 221 Complex Games Inc. is Manitoba’s [email protected] DACAPO is a creative production [email protected] premiere interactive & game Current Projects: Heartland: The company that creates original Current Projects: Supa Strikas development studio. We build Social Game, Battle Bears Royale, Guns music, casts and records voices Season 3 (service work), Santa engaging interactive experiences & Ammo: Point of Impact - Reloaded for animation and live action, Apprentice 2 (co-producer, animated for Creative Firms and the World’s Past Projects: Battle Bears -1, One provides sound effects, and feature), Lanfeust Quest (co-producer, Largest Brands. Ocean Online, MEGA Bloks: First offers mixing and audio post animated series), Tayo the Little Bus 2 Builders, Corona Find Your Beach (service work). Specializing in mobile games services. Additionally, we are Mosaic Maker, Air Traffic Commander co-producers and production Past Projects: Princess Season 2, development we have produced original music with Frantic Films, highly successful and award- partners on film and television Noonbory and the Super Seven, voices, winning interactive applications productions. music, SFX post with Cookie Jar; Kung Fu Dino Posse, voices with Cookie and games for household names 516 Hargrave Street like Sony, Corona Beverages, the Jar; The Green Squad, voices with Winnipeg MB R3A 0X8 CBC, and Sharp. Gaumont-Alphanim; Till Debt Do Us Tel: 204.956.2867 Part, music with Frantic Films; Guinea In 2010, we received the Canada Pig, music with Frantic Films New Media Award for Best dacapo.ca Awards: SOCAN award for Music Online Game for One Ocean Composition (2010); AAW Award for Online, a project we produced in Music for Communications (2011) conjunction with Merit Motion Pictures and Tactica. 201–545 Hervo St. Winnipeg, MB R3T 5S8 Tel: 204.417.9482 complexgames.com 78 Production Companies Kyle Irving Lisa Meeches John Barnard Eagle Vision Lisa Meeches Farpoint Films Inc. / Kyle Bornais Established in 2000 President Micro Bus Pictures Principal / Producer [email protected] Established in 2000 [email protected] Eagle Vision Inc. is one of Kyle Irving John Barnard Canada’s leading Aboriginal- Vice President, Production Farpoint Films / Micro Bus Principal / Director owned production companies [email protected] Pictures develops, produces, and [email protected] that produces exceptional, Current Projects: Aboriginal Peoples services television and theatrical Current Projects: The Medicine Line, award-winning television and Choice Music Awards (2006 – 2011); film projects on a national documentary series (2013); The film content for the Canadian We Were Children (2012); and international level. Our Sheepdogs Have At It, documentary and international marketplace. Strange Love (2013) services include award-winning feature (2012); X-Rayted, documentary series (2012) Past Projects: Elijah, MOW (2007); producing, directing and writing Tel: 204.772.0368 Walk All Over Me, feature film (2007); for film and television. Farpoint Past Projects: The Book of Vaudeville, Fax: 204.772.0360 The Sharing Circle, documentary also houses a full service post- documentary (2011); We’re the series (1991-2008); Capote, feature Weakerthans; We’re from Winnipeg, production facility. [email protected] film (2005); Tipi Tales Seasons 1-3, documentary feature (2010); Lost eaglevision.ca children’s series 202-1335 Erin Street Bones: In Search of Sitting Bull’s Grave, documentary (2009); House Party, Awards: 2 Gemini Awards (Elijah, Winnipeg, MB R3E 2S7 2009); Canadian Association of series comedy (2009); Wild Cherry, Broadcasters Blue Ribbon Award (The Tel: 204.222.3755 feature film (2009) Sharing Circle, 2003); Oscars: Five Fax: 204.772.0045 Awards: Hugo Television Award; nominations, one win (Capote, 2005) Accolade Awards: Four-time winner; [email protected] Gemini Nomination farpointfilms.com microbuspictures.com 79 Production Companies Chris McIvor Jeff