Multi award winning Writer and Filmmaker with a background that includes broadcast management, Television Anchor, Acting, a run hosting the number one rated afternoon radio show in Vancouver, BC, and Professional Golf. My first script collaboration earned a Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship (with Rodger Cove); my work as a Director/Producer has been screened at festivals in New York, Montreal, Chicago;, Toronto (and others); as an Actor, I’ve had numerous principle, guest starring, recurring roles which provided the invaluable opportunity to be directed by such notables as David Zucker, Robert Redford and Tim Burton. I’ve been a successful recipient of funding for several projects in Canada, including Telefilm Canada, the Canada Media Fund and Telus Storyhive. As an independent producer, I produced the feature film, Woodland, which was a multi-award winner and is distributed in over 20 countries internationally, and have a number of projects in various stages of development, ranging from both narrative and documentary features and scripted and unscripted television.. We also offer production services for productions looking to take advantage of the benefits of shooting in Vancouver - from casting, crews, post, locations, tax credits, etc. - and work at all stages of production, from development to final delivery.
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Panda Boy! Budget: $1M - $5M | Crime ⋄ Comedy A sweet, naìˆve man-child with a lifelong dream of becoming a theme park character lands a dream job as the beloved Panda at a rundown amusement park, only to be thrown into a world of debauchery, crime, and danger after discovering the park is a front for organized crime—and he’s their new drug mule. ("Barry" meets "Adventureland")
Going for Broke Comedy (Series - single camera comedy) A minor-league pro athlete attempting to make it to the major leagues struggles to hold it all together while co-parenting his 13-year-old daughter.
Slugterra: Into the Shadows
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Film
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Actor As the Shane Gang return to the 99 caverns from their Eastern adventure, a dispute erupts between them and the Shadow Clan, threatening to shatter the hard-won peace in Slugterra. Eli and the Gang have their hands full dealing with the antics of the usual thugs, plus growing hostility from their former allies. So when Tad and his slug Pieper-who have just arrived from the Surface-lend a hand with Pieper's amazing powers, Eli welcomes a new team member. But soon this newcomer casts his own shadow on the chaos.
Going for Broke
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Television
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Writer, Director A minor league pro golfer aspiring to a shot in the big leagues battles his demons, on and off the course.
Slugterra
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Television
(Animation, Action, Comedy and Sci-Fi)
Actor Eli Shane is determined to be the greatest Slugslinging hero of them all! Only by collecting, training and dueling with little critters called SLUGS can Eli and his team hope to defeat the forces of evil. Did we mention the part where the slugs transform into powerful magical beasts? That part's awesome. Slugterra is an epic sci-fi comedy adventure set deep underground, where the ammo's alive and only the quick survive! In this luminous, high-tech, underground world every cavern holds a new adventure, new battle and weird little slugs to be discovered! The story follows Eli and his crew as they explore the caverns, challenge rivals and each other to friendly duels, upgrade their cool gear, and generally have a blast in this never-before-imagined underground world! But there is a very real threat to the world and the slugs; Dr. Blakk is seeking to "ghoul" the slugs, transforming them into feral mindless weapons! No one has been able to stand up to Blakk's powerful slugs and army of ... Written by Anonymous
What Has Obama Ever Done for Us
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Film
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The Patio
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Film
(Short and Drama)
Director An urban couple's struggling marriage suffers further complications when a good friend stops by for a visit.
Big Eyes
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Film
(Biography, Crime, Drama and Romance)
Actor In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children with big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings. Written by Anne Campbell
The Count's Mabel
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Film
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Director Count Dracula's competence slips through the dungeon floor cracks as his victim Mabel, a feisty dancer from the roaring 20's, takes control leading them from terror to romance and eventually a happy ending. But for whom???
Psych
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Television
(Comedy, Crime and Mystery)
Actor Think you are psychic? Well so does Shawn Spencer. Shawn and his best friend Gus own a business called Psych. They are able to stay in business only because of the cases they work with Santa Barbara police department as psychics. Shawn and Gus go through many ups and downs trying to keep the ruse up. Can they pretend forever? Or is the world they built going to come crumbling down?
The Company You Keep
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Film
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Actor After years in hiding, ex-Weather Underground militant, Nick Sloan aka Jim Grant, learns about his old compatriot's arrest for a bank robbery turned deadly in the 1970s, which he is wanted for as an accomplice. This puts the ambitious young local reporter, Ben Shepard, on the scent of a story that exposes Nick as well. As such, Nick goes on the run while taking his daughter to safety. With that accomplished, Nick stays one step ahead of the FBI while pursuing a faint hope to clear his name. Meanwhile, Shepard digs deeper into the case himself as he discovers the true complexities of another times' determined ideals even as Nick faces their consequences with another. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
There's Something the Matter with Montcrief
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Film
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Director Two roommates learn the bloody truth about just how far someone will go to capture a shared accommodation's most coveted and disputed prize - the TV Clicker.
Stand Up Funeral
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Film
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Director An aspiring comedian misinterprets a request from his now deceased friend to have a happy funeral and does his routine instead of a eulogy. He appalls the crowd, then tries to go the opposite way and sing his dead friend's praises as much as possible. The crowd is confused and upset, he is not describing the real person they knew. Finally the comic finds a middle ground, making jokes about the endearing habits of his dead friend. But just when the crowd is warming up he throws in one off-color joke and they beat and chase him out of the church. Written by Anonymous
Caprica
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Television
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Actor Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences. A spin-off of the Sci Fi Channel series "Battlestar Galactica" set 50 years prior to the events of that show.
Tron: Legacy
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Film
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Actor Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 20 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant Quorra, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. Meanwhile, the malevolent program CLU, who dominates the digital world, plans to invade the real world and will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. Written by ZootCatchy
Pretty Little Liars
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Television
(Drama, Mystery, Romance and Thriller)
Actor Set in the fictional town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, the series follows the lives of four girls, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields, and Spencer Hastings, whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison DiLaurentis. One year later, the estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure named "A", who threatens to expose their deepest secrets, including ones they thought only Alison knew. At first, they think it's Alison herself, but after her body is found, the girls realize that someone else is planning on ruining their perfect lives.
Tooth Fairy
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Film
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Actor Derek Thompson is 'The Tooth Fairy,' a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's hopes, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth" - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes...doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams Written by 20th Century Fox
Open Diaries
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Film
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Actor Karen, 40, embarks on a provocative journey of self-discovery and sexual liberation when she finds love in the arms of a much younger man, Alex.
The Coming
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Film
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Actor Tom's protective older sister, Samantha, goes missing and the strange events surrounding her disappearance become a match that sets aflame a small town's racial mistrust and mass hysteria eleven years later. In 1997, when tension in the Middle-East is prominent, the future of our world remains uncertain. Tom begins to have terrifying dream memories and finally decides to uncover the truth behind his sister's disappearance. Tom attempts to confront Ezzedine, an old Arabic recluse who harbors the answers to all of his questions concerning Samantha's vanishing. But the suspicious hermit is being viciously pursued by a police officer whose sanity spins wildly out of control. A last desperate act sends Tom home to protect his family and it is there that the greatest secret is revealed. For Tom's story is that of a witness to the tragedy of our world. A witness to... The Coming. Written by Chad Costen
Watchmen
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Film
(Action, Drama, Mystery and Sci-Fi)
Actor In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot. Written by evan murphy
A Great Day for Death
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Film
(Short and Comedy)
Actor The story of what might happen if we annoying mortals would just let the Grim Reaper take a vacation.
Lenny the Raccoon Slayer
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Film
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Actor The story of a rogue Raccoon hunter and his bumbling sidekick as they seek vengeance on the critter that ruined the family flower bed.
Hair of the Sasquatch
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Film
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Director While researching the legend of the Sasquatch from a marketing perspective, two filmmakers learn of a man rumoured to have had an intimate encounter with the beast. Written by Anonymous
Getting a Head
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Video
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Director Pursuing a dream of becoming a mascot, Gern Simchuck gets his big break as The Easter Bunny. However, he soon discovers the dangers of the job when a group of teenage thugs pursue their own souvenir bunny head.
Scary Movie 4
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Film
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Actor The unemployed Cindy Campbell is hired to work in a cursed house as caretaker of an old lady and meets the ghost of a boy. Meanwhile, the teenager son Robbie and the young daughter Rachel of his next door neighbor and crane operator Tom Ryan are spending the weekend with their loser father. Cindy and Tom meet and fall in love for each other, but when Giant Tripods invade Earth, Tom escapes with Robbie and Rachel; Cindy travels to a village, trying to find the answer to a riddle to save the world; and the president of USA organizes the defense of the planet in UN under his intelligence and leadership. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution
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TV Movie
(Drama)
Actor A single blind date suffices for handsome gentleman Scott Peterson, a traveling salesman, to seduce Amber Frey all the way. When a colleague finds out about his marriage, she believes him to be a widower. Later however it becomes clear his wife was alive and pregnant, but is missing. Pregnant herself, Amber hears his wife and baby's corpses were found and records his phone calls for the police. Ultimately she's the key witness is his murder trial. Written by KGF Vissers
Canada International Film Festival - Royal Reel Award
(2014)
Langara College
(2006-2006)