Lloyd Summers

Red Iron Labs

Founded in 2016 as a game company in Calgary, we specialize in VR (virtual reality), building multiplayer experiences, simulations, and hyper realistic AAA (“Triple A”) video-game level environments across many industries.

Johnny Cole

Kuychi

I'm a Canadian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter.

Nimrod Shanit

HCXR

HCXR creates fantastic and transcendent XR experiences combining gamification, biometric data, natural language processing, virtual humans, and 5G Edge Computing. We are experts at matching the myriad of XR formats and technologies to achieve creative objectives.

Michael Peterson

Peterson Polaris Corp.

Peterson Polaris Corp. is a Canadian based media production company, owned by the award-winning filmmaker, Michael Peterson. Peterson Polaris has helped create, develop and produce original feature films, TV and web series, short films, commercials, new media, including video games, and documentary projects. Our projects lean towards elevated genre where we've made a strong impact as experts over the past 8 years.

Located in Calgary, Canada, they are constantly developing new creative ventures internally, and through a variety of partnerships and collaborations with other Canadian and international companies. Intense efforts and an eye to good marketing, has placed them as leaders in the genre world, by promoting creator-driven projects towards both critical and commercial success. Our projects have played top film festivals and been sold and distributed in multiple domestic and international territories.

Maeve Kern

Archipelago Productions

Archipelago Productions is a full-service entertainment production company based out of Toronto, Canada, with 15+ full-time employees between our production and post-production offices. We are a team of visual storytellers, technicians and diverse creatives, and were voted “Best Videography Services” in the Toronto Star Readers’ Choice awards (2019 & 2021).

In 2019, we produced Devout + Out, a three-part series for the CBC about openly LGBTQ+ individuals who have chosen to become or remain leaders in the church. Our short film, Camp Tipsy, directed by Jana Stackhouse, is about a 14-year-old girl who is struggling with alcoholism. The short won 5 awards at the 2022 Hollywood North Film Awards, including Best Short Film, and is the official selection of many festivals across the country. Jana also directed Note to Self, a comedy web series for the CBC starring ​​Rakhee Morzaria. Our upcoming limited series, Content Farm, is a partnership between Canada Council for the Arts and the CBC, and is set to premiere later this year. Also set to premiere this year is our wildly funny comedy web series, My Special Guest, starring Juno Rinaldi and Jenny Young, alongside special guests Dani Kind and Jann Arden.

We are driven by an unwavering passion for cinema and series. Together, we are inspired to create a lasting and positive mark in those mediums. We are genre agnostic, and are drawn to story and meaningful impact over format. Archipelago takes a creator driven approach to all of our entertainment projects, be they documentary, narrative or unscripted. We strive to provide the ideal working environment that allows our creatives to flourish and ensure the best version of their vision is realized on screen.

Paul Dillon

Cupboard Games

Cupboard Games is a boutique game studio developing carefully crafted, intimate experiences across genres and platforms.

Cupboard Games’ passion is in creating interactive experiences that leave a lasting impression in people's minds. Alongside many years of experience in game development, they also bring collective backgrounds in the worlds of physics, film, philosophy, art design, and development. Common to their work is engagement with experts to ensure each experience has a level of authenticity and truth.

Norma Rossler

Red Meat Games

Red Meat Games is an innovative technology company that specializes in game design and development, virtual/augmented reality and artificial intelligence. We have an experienced team of developers with upwards of 25 years of industry experience and specialization in their craft. Our talented team can produce anything you need for 2D/3D graphics, programming, virtual reality, and Unity development.

We have made it our mission to create innovative and fun indie games, whether mid-core or hardcore titles for PC, Console, VR/AR, and Mobile. Our hope is that anyone who plays our games has fun, that they thoroughly enjoy the time spent, and are proud of their accomplishment

Paul Shoebridge

The Goggles

Award winning co-creator and producer of the interactive documentary, Welcome to Pine Point, the augmented reality book, The Book of Darryl, co-creator of The Ghosts In Our Machine interactive, the print book I Live Here, in development on Chasing the Sun, an interactive piece about climate change.

Derek A.

Crazy Voice Film Corp.

Irish-Canadian screenwriter-editor-producer, with engaging tales set in North America, Europe & Eire.

Pascal Atuma

The Atuma Brothers International Company (TABIC) INC.

Pascal is seasoned Filmmaker with over 15 years’ experience and several Awards to his name. This multi-talented Canadian/Nigerian actor, film producer, screenwriter, has about 10 Producer credits, 14 Writer/Screen play credits, and 12 Director credits and 20 Actor credits, to add to his list of accomplishments. He has produced movies that sold in blockbuster videos, Amazon Prime, Netflix etc. As a director, he’s helmed most of his twelve movie productions “CLASH” (A Canadian Multiracial story) which he Wrote, Produced, Directed and played the Lead Role was released by NETFLIX in the African territory on May 18th, the movie trended #1 on NETFLIX Africa for 19 days straight and Netflix expanded the release of CLASH globally, on July 8th and it is still streaming on Netflix right now.

Additionally, one of Pascal’s short films SWEET REVENGE, another wonderful movie (A Canadian interracial story), that he Wrote, Produced and Directed, Won the 2018 Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud - Just for Laughs, & Eat My Short Lion's Gate Competition in Montreal, Canada. Out of 653 submissions within Canada and the United States of America, Canada emerged the winner! “BloodLines” (with Billy Dee Williams & Lynn Whitfield, released in North America March 10th ,2015), the move streamed on Amazon prime. LAPD African Cops (with Vanessa Bell Calloway, Luenell, Dorian Wilson, Brian Hooks released in Cinemas in West Africa Dec 4th, 2015), Hurricane In The Rose Garden (with Tangi Miller, Aloma Wright, Hakeem Kae Kazim, already released), also streamed on Amazon. The movie Only In America (with Tanjareen Martin & Sandra Achums, already released and distributed by maverick entertainment. Sexy Boy In America (with Pagor Akot & Bless Brown) “Who Is the Man?” “Okoto the Messenger,” “My American Nurse” and its sequel, “My American Nurse 2.” His breakout directorial debut, “My American Nurse,” premiered in the United States at the 2006 Pan African Film Festival.