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Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto

Current researcher, strategist and advisory board member for fandom startup Biom.studio, founded by two former Jam3 colleagues and the head of digital gaming studio ZeMind, builders of the Biom platform, which provides an elegant solution to web3’s UX/UI problem.Concurrently with Biom, I provide strategy and production for premier ZeMind client work, like.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In 2020, I was invited to design and teach a course on transmedia storytelling and interactive documentary for the filmmaker-led Documentary and Non-Fiction Media (DNM) program at Seneca Polytechnic. I combined post-structuralist philosophy of technology I studied at McGill with the latest theory and practice from MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and Co-Creation.

Toronto, Canada Area

In 2018, I started a long stint freelancing for Sumit Ajwani, who I met while filming in Ghana for Cadbury’s Fair Trade and Bicycle Factory initiatives – as one of the OG members of his fast-growing Makers.to commercial producer resourcing company. It turned into a great opportunity to broaden my integrated production experience, for clients like.

Accra, Rotterdam, Salt Lake City, Manchester

2023 saw the release of a Microsoft 365 brand doc series I wrote, directed, produced and provided content strategy for alongside friend Aaron A, featuring users in four countries on three continents, sharing how Microsoft products address their local needs. My former Jam3 colleague Heather Phenix, EP on my NUCLEAR DISSENT interactive documentary, got me.

Toronto, Canada Area

While at Jam3 I co-led interactive documentaries SONS OF GALLIPOLI, CHANGE GOUT and NUCLEAR DISSENT, among the company’s most awarded projects – bringing in several Webbys, OneShows, D&AD Pencils, Cannes Lions, AWWWards, ADCCs and a Banff World Media Festival Award and a Canadian Screen Award. See my LinkedIn projects or my bookersim.com Selected Work.

Brooklyn, New York

I co-founded music-tech startup Legitmix with serial startup entrepreneur Omid McDonald, who came up with a tech solution to a problem I encountered while making my TRAGEDY hip-hop documentary: music clearance. I supported him in investor pitches that led to over $3 million in financing, led by the Purple Angels and Canadian startup incubator MaRS (with.

Toronto, Europe, California

After producing Cervélo’s 2008 commercials and filming the Carlos Sastre win the the Tour de France Yellow Jersey on a Cervélo, I co-created, wrote, directed and produced BEYOND THE PELOTON (BTP), a groundbreaking branded web series about the Tour de France Green Jersey winning Cervelo TestTeam. I produced and co-wrote and co-directed all Cervelo's video.

Montreal, New York, West Africa, The Balkans, The Middle East

Since 2000, Alexandre Trudeau and I have worked intermittently together under his JuJu Films banner on numerous geopolitical conflict docs for Canada’s premier current affairs programs The National (CBC) and W5 (CTV), including:THE NEW GREAT GAME – a docuseries about pirates, pariahs and world powers competing for strategic global waterways (CBC’s The.

Between 2002 and 2006, Alexandre Trudeau and I worked closely together on geopolitical documentaries for CTV’S W5, Canada’s most-watched current affairs and documentary program, including:EMBEDDED IN BAGHDAD – Trudeau embeds himself with a family in Baghdad during the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing campaign, seen by over 1.5 million viewers on its primetime.

Between 2000 and 2012, Alexandre Trudeau and I worked intermittently together on geopolitical conflict documentaries that aired prime time on CBC Television’s premier current affairs news program The National and CBC Radio One’s The Current, including:BELGRADE: ONE YEAR AFTER (2000) – a documentary about activist youth in Serbia who helped defeat the.