Our people have a long history of success and innovation in independent film and television. 

The work we have produced has screened and broadcast widely around the world in film festivals, art galleries, and on television, winning many national and international awards.

Ian Toews csc

President, Producer, Director, Cinematographer

Ian Toews has been making films and television series since 1996. His works are primarily concerned with the natural environment. He is the producer, director, and DOP of more than 100 television episodes, 7 short films, and 8 full-length documentaries, including the Gemini Award winning series Landscape as Muse and the Canadian Screen Award nominated theatrical feature and digital media project Bugs on the Menu. His productions have been nominated for 10 Gemini/Canadian Screen Awards (Etthén Heldeli: Caribou Eaters, Untamed Gourmet, Saskatchewan River Delta), including a 2024 series nomination for Ageless Gardens (Rob Stewart Award for Best Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series). The second season of his series Visionary Gardeners will premiere in Canada on VisionTV in May, 2024.

Toews is a producer on the international co-production Soviet Bus Stops, a documentary feature that premiered to sell-out audiences at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and has screened internationally at CPH:DOX, Docville, and Millennium Docs Against Gravity, among others. It was nominated for a 2024 Danish Academy Award (“The Robert Prisen”).

Mark Bradley

Producer, Business Affairs Manager, Picture Editor

Canadian Screen Award-nominated producer Mark Bradley has worked in the television industry for over 25 years. He has produced award-winning broadcast television series and one-off arts and nature documentaries for major Canadian broadcasters. Projects have included the Gemini Award-winning Landscape as Muse, Grasslands, Great Minds of Design, The Nature of Inspiration, and Leo Award-winning series Visionary Gardeners. He has been nominated for five Leo Awards as producer and editor. His productions have been nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards (Bugs on the Menu, Untamed Gourmet, Etthén Heldeli: Caribou Eaters), including a 2024 nomination for Ageless Gardens (Rob Stewart Award for Best Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series).

Jason Nielsen

Picture Editor, Music Editor

Jason Nielsen is a versatile and experienced visual storyteller who edits multi-genre MOWs, scripted series, and documentaries for international broadcast. Jason was honoured with a Gemini Award Nomination for Best Editing (Dramatic) in 2004 and is the recipient of various Directors Guild of Canada Awards. Jason is proud to have his work in the collections of The National Gallery of Canada and The National Archives in Ottawa.

Jason Britski

Picture Editor, On-line Editor

Jason Britski is an independent filmmaker. His films and videos have been screened around the world at such film festivals as Toronto International, Rotterdam International, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Hamburg International Short, Revelation Perth International in Australia, Tampere International in Finland, and Cork International in Ireland. His work has screened in forty three countries. Over the course of his career Jason has made numerous experimental films, documentary TV episodes for broadcast, and two feature length documentaries. He edited the 2020 Canadian Screen Award nominated (Best Documentary Program) Etthén Heldeli: Caribou Eaters and the documentary Soviet Bus Stops. Jason has worked in the industry as a producer, director, videographer, sound recordist, sound editor, but primarily as a picture editor.