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ESSEX COUNTY

TV Mini Series - CBC / ITV (Canada & UK)

Nominated for Best Photography, Drama Series for The Canadian Screen Awards 2024

Nominated for Best Pilot Episode Cinematography at the Canadian Society of Cinematographer Awards 2024

Nominated for Best TV Series at the Venice TV Awards 2023

Season 1 - 5 Episodes (1 Hour)

Based off the award winning graphic novel set ‘ESSEX COUNTY’ by Jeff Lemire.

How loss, betrayal, and trauma can impact generations and how redemption can be found through human connection.

The five-part limited series tells the story of four disparate characters – old Lou (Stephen McHattie), young Lester (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong), country nurse Anne (Molly Parker) and stoic farmer Ken (Brian J. Smith) – linked through their bloodlines. Kevin Durand also stars as Jimmy Lebeuf.

Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the simple-hearted care of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception?

Director: Andrew Cividino

Showrunner: Jeff Lemire

Production Co.: First Generation Films

Boxcutter

Feature Film

Director: Reza Dahya

After his laptop is stolen, an aspiring rapper goes on a quest across the gentrifying streets of Toronto to recover his music in time for the event that could change his life – a meeting with a Grammy Award winning producer.

A Fire In The Cold Season

Feature Film

Nominated for Best Achievement in Cinematography (Feature Film) - Canadian Screen Awards 2021

Director: Justin Oakey

A whisper among the sprawling forests and mill towns of central Newfoundland. A body found on the side of a river brings together a reclusive fur trapper and a heartsick mother-to-be. Scott is lonely and desperate to give himself meaning. Mona is strong-willed, but frustrated by her fragility. As a reluctant dependence blossoms the pair find themselves wading into violence, answering for the debts of a dead man. Stalked by outlaws, they plan an exit.

BET

Netflix TV Series - (Ep. 3,4,7,8)

Boatrocker Media

Live-action series adaptation based on the hit Japanese manga Kakegurui by Homura Kawamoto and Toru Naomura.

At a private school where gambling determines social status, a mysterious new student with a tragic past is shaking things up — and betting on revenge.

Sleeping Giant

Feature Film

Director: Andrew Cividino

Producers: Karen Harnisch, James Vandewater, Marc Swenker

Production Co.: FilmForge Productions

Teenage Adam Hudson is spending his summer vacation with his upper middle-class parents in Thunder Bay on rugged Lake Superior. His dull routine is given a jumpstart when he befriends Riley and Nate, working-class cousins staying with their grandmother, who pass their ample free time with debauchery and reckless cliff jumping. Sporadically joined by Adam’s friend Taylor, the three boys become inseparable, but their friendship is uneasy and rife with hormonal tension, bullying and jealously.

Flankers

Short Film

Director: Justin Oakey

Producers: James Vandewater & Justin Oakey

Kim's Convenience

CBC / Netflix TV Series

Canadian Screen Award 2021 Winner for Best Photography, Comedy Series

Canadian Screen Award 2022 Nomination for Best Photography, Comedy Series

The misadventures of a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store.

Starring: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Simu Lui, Andrew Phung, Andrea Bang, Nicole Power

An Audience of Chairs

Director: Deanne Foley

A mother living with mental illness struggles to cope after losing custody of her two daughters.

A beautiful, talented concert pianist loses custody of her children when, caught up in a manic creative episode, she leaves them unattended on an island. Diagnosed as borderline schizophrenic, she is left to struggle with her demons and live without sight or sound of her children until twenty years later a chance encounter brings them back into her life.

The Last Porno Show

Director: Kire Paputts

A man inherits his estranged father’s prized possession — a derelict porno theatre — in Kire Paputts’ second feature, about gentrification and finding love and compassion in unlikely places.

Kaha:Wi : The Cycle of Life

Documentary

Winner of the ‘Robert Brooks Award’ For Documentary Cinematography by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers 2014

Director: Shane Belcourt

Producer: Jeremy Edwardes

Network: APTN

Celebrated performer, choreographer and artist Santee Smith interprets traditional Iroquois legends through contemporary dance in a cinematic restaging of her 2004 award-winning debut production KAHA:WI : THE CYCLE OF LIFE. In this touching documentary, a gorgeous and transformative performance is translated effortlessly to the screen, telling us of sacred portals between the Sky World, the Earth World and the Under World.

Windowless

Director: Samuel Flückiger

It has been 35 years since Maria left her newborn in a baby window. With the help of the authorities, she tracks down her daughter and meets Caroline for the first time. A DNA test is to prove their kinship. An increasingly close relationship develops between Maria and Caroline. However, unfulfilled expectations and quiet accusations threaten to break it time and again.

I Put A Hit On You

Feature Film

Directors: Dane Clark & Linsey Stewart

Producers: Mike MacMillan & Jordan Gross

Distributor: Mongrel Media

A brokenhearted woman teams up with her ex-boyfriend to try and stop the hitman she accidentally hired to kill him.

Nightlight

Short Film

Director: Samuel Flückiger

Producers: Joël Jent & Mike MacMillan

Production Co.: Aaron Film / Lithium Studios

Zurich, Switzerland

What Would Sal Do?

TV Series (8 Episodes)

Director: Samir Rehem

Prod. Co.: New Metric Media

Broadcaster: Bell Media / CraveTV

Where Am I? - ON Tourism

 

Director: Andrew Cividino

Prod. Co: OPC / FilmForge

Darcys - 'Miracle'

Director: Ohji Noue

Production Co.: COMMON GOOD

ESSEX COUNTY

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BET

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Sleeping Giant

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Flankers

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Kim's Convenience

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An Audience of Chairs

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The Last Porno Show

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Kaha:Wi : The Cycle of Life

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I Put A Hit On You

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Nightlight

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What Would Sal Do?

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Where Am I? - ON Tourism

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Darcys - 'Miracle'

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