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Aaron Ashmore Aaron Ashmore has been a professional actor since he was 10 years old. He was born in Richmond, B.C. and at a very young age, he and his family moved to Edmonton where he and his brother were recruited for TV commercials. Later the family moved to Brampton. Since Aaron appeared in Atom Egoyan's 1993 CBC movie "Gross Misconduct" he has amassed over 20 feature films, television movies and 3 series. Some of the many acclaimed television series to his name include the soon to air, new CBS series "The Bridge" in which he had a Guest Starring Role. Aaron has also appeared in three series in recurring lead roles: “Veronica Mars,” “Missing,” and “Smallville.” In addition, he starred in the critically acclaimed television movie "Prom Queen" for Shaftsbury Films. Aaron also has many film credits to his name such as “The Thaw,” “Deep Cove,” “The Christmas Cottage,” "The Stone Angel" based on the Margaret Laurence book and Palo Alto and “My Brother’s Keeper.” |
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Cindy Sampson Cindy Sampson was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She did not want to go to her first audition, but landed the job anyway and fell in love with acting. Sampson moved to Toronto immediately after graduating high school in order to attend the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, with intentions of going into musical theatre. However, Sampson ended up going into comedy, performing with a comedy sketch troupe, which led to her booking for the Life Network series, Sketch Troop. Cindy went on to star as ‘Sandra MacLaren’ on the Canadian television series ‘RUMOURS’. Other television credits include guest starring roles on the CW series ‘SUPERNATURAL’ and ‘REAPER’ as well as a lead role in the Sci-Fi Channel film ‘ALIEN WESTERN.’ Feature film credits include Paramount Pictures’ ‘THE LAST KISS’ sharing scenes with Zach Braff, Casey Affleck, and Rachel Bilson and the upcoming Warner Brothers film ‘THE FACTORY’ opposite John Cusack. |
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Meghan Heffern A rising Canadian talent, Meghan Heffern is no stranger to the big and small screen. She recently was featured alongside Liam Neeson in Atom Egoyan’s newest work “Chloe,” which premieres at this years TIFF, and starred in the most recent American Pie film, “American Pie: Beta House.” Other recent works include recurring roles in “Blue Mountain State” and Disney’s “Aaron Stone.” Ms. Heffern also has numerous other credits to her name including “Wild Roses,” “Lovebites,” “Conspiracy,” “Monster Warriors,” “Whistler,” “Flight ’93,” and “The Fog,” to name a few. |
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Trevor Matthews TREVOR MATTHEWS is quickly becoming a familiar face to audiences, turning out acclaimed performances in both short and feature length films. His performance in the cult hit “Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer” garnered him praise as it was nominated for a number of Fangoria Chainsaw Awards including Best Actor for Matthew’s performance. “Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer” also won a Saturn Award for best DVD release of 2009. Prior to his feature film debut, Matthews is credited with lead performances for a roster of acclaimed short films developed and produced by Brookstreet Pictures. These credits include “Moment of Truth,” “Still Life,” which made it’s debut at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, and “Teen Massacre,” which also played in the film festival circuit. |
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Vieslav Krystyan Vieslav Krystyan is an accomplished talent with a distinguished catalogue of work with starring roles in film, television, and on stage. His credits on the big screen include the critically acclaimed, award-winning “Fugitive Pieces,” “St. Roz,” “Year of The Sheep,” “Endless Night,” and “Darkman III.” His list of small screen credentials include CBC’s “The Border,” “Wonderland,” “Soul Food,” “Relic Hunter,” and “ La Femme Nikita.” In addition, Krystyan is no stranger to the stage, starring in numerous theatre productions such as “The Odyssey,” “Nothing But The Larks,” “Faust,” “School For Scandal,” “Twelfth Night,” and “Macbeth.” |
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Writer / Director – Jon Knautz As early as high school, Jon was developing his filmmaking craft. After gaining experience in directing, producing, camera, writing, and editing, Jon completed the Film Foundation program at the Vancouver Film School where he graduated in the top five percent of his class. Jon’s first short film Apt. 310 played eleven film festivals and garnered two awards for Best Short Film, leading to its sale to Hypnotic, a short film distribution company. Apt. 310 was also shown on the television network TMN. |
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Executive Producer – Trevor Matthews After studying Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Trevor attended the New York Film Academy where he graduated in 2002. It wasn’t long before his passion for film enticed Trevor to team up with Jon Knautz and Patrick White to form Brookstreet Pictures Corp. As CEO, Trevor initiated his film career by producing and acting in Brookstreet Pictures’ series of short films: Teen Massacre, Still Life, The Other Celia, and Moment of Truth. Trevor is the son of technology magnate, Sir Terence Matthews, founder of Mitel Networks, Newbridge Networks, and owner of the Brookstreet Hotel and Celtic Manor Resort in Wales. Trevor’s business acumen was, in part, seasoned through his involvement with various “Matthews” business holdings. He is an active board member for the private venture capital firm Wesley Clover Corporation. As CEO of Brookstreet Pictures, Trevor continues to provide the knowledge and capability required for this up-start company to grow and thrive within the film industry at large. He has also proven that he is able to transition between both the logistical and creative sides of Brookstreet Pictures as he was both the titular character and producer of Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, Brookstreet Pictures’ first feature film. Trevor now leads the company through yet another hurdle as Brookstreet Pictures continues working on its second feature film “The Shrine”. |
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Producer – J. Michael Dawson J. Michael Dawson is a producer in film, television and online media, focusing on commercially viable and brand centered entertainment. The founder of Lifeforce Entertainment, a digital media company, he produced four original web series, including the hit show Men’s Room, and launched Canada’s first online broadcast network, LifeforceTV.com. In 2005 he created the Toronto Film Challenge, Canada’s largest film competition. Executive Producing and hosting over 2500 filmmakers, the event became a staple in the Toronto film community, awarding local filmmakers over $100,000 in prizes and enabling their work to be adjudicated by some of Canada’s most distinguished actors, directors and producers. After spending several years in the field as an assistant director, Michael has gone on to produce a variety of projects such as the short film Heir Apparent starring Steve Byers (Wild Roses, Falcon Beach), and the latest music video Laces Out for the hit band U.S.S. Michael is an active member of the Canadian Film & Television Producers Association, and an alumnus of the Vancouver Film School. He is currently producing the feature film The Shrine for Brookstreet Pictures. He routinely hosts an ongoing meet-up for web television professionals in Toronto where he resides. |
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Associate Producer – Danielle Robinson Danielle joined Alan Siegel Entertainment in 2000. She is now Vice President and works with clients such as James Callis, JJ Feild, Jamie Bamber, Roger Rees, Trevor Mathews and Gerard Butler. In 2008, Alan Siegel and Gerard Butler opened their production shingle, Evil Twins. Danielle is the Director of Development for the banner and is currently developing feature film, television, and documentaries. Evil Twins’ first feature Law Abiding-Citizen starring Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler and Viola Davis is currently in theaters now. |
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Writer – Brendan Moore Brendan Moore began writing screenplays at the age of nineteen. During his time as a university student, screenwriting was put aside and relegated to a summer hobby. After receiving a Master's Degree in English from Carleton University in 2006, he returned to his first passion and began working full time as a screenwriter. He has developed a number of screenplays across a variety of genres in a short time. On the strength of a previous screenplay he had written with Jon Knautz, Brendan was brought in to Brookstreet Pictures to help develop ideas, eventually leading to writing the screenplay for their second feature, "The Shrine". |
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Director of Photography – James Griffith James is a working cinematographer in Toronto shooting for television & film. His credits and clients include 20th century fox, Discovery channel, History Channel, National Geographic, C.T.V., Global C.B.C., , Showcase, Alliance Atlantis, Pepsi, Nike, Bravo to name a few. |
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Editor – Matthew Brulotte While Matt’s academic background is in film studies, he is primarily self-taught in post-production and film editing. He began collaborating with Jon Knautz early on in his career and produced and edited Teen Massacre in 2004. He joined Brookstreet Pictures in 2005 to edit the short film Still Life, which has won several prestigious awards and played numerous festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and the Clarmont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. |
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Composer – Ryan Shore Award winning film composer RYAN SHORE's diverse background of orchestral, contemporary and jazz music, combined with his abilities to compose memorable music and to be highly collaborative, has quickly made him one of today's sought after film composers. |
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Production Manager – Justin Kelly Justin Kelly has been in film and television for fourteen years, mostly as a production manager & line producer, but has also worked as a director, producer, production accountant and assistant director. |
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Production Designer – Craig Harris Craig has worked in the film and television industry for 10 years, garnering many credits to his name. Production Design credits include “In Love,” ”Confessions of a Porn Addict,” “Sox,” “Monster Warriors,” and “Ghost Trackers.” He has Art Direction credits for the television series’ “Testees” and “Monster Warriors.” Other film and television series that Harris has worked on as Set Decorator/Dresser include “Nothing,” “Saving Grace,” “Guns,” “Puppets Who Kill,” “Degrassi TNG,” “Queer as Folk,” and “La Femme Nikita. |
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Casting Directors – Jenny Lewis CDC & Sara Kay CDC Jenny and Sara have been working together for over 5 years. They won the inaugural Gemini for casting the MOW ‘Heyday’ by Gordon Pinsent, and were nominated again in the second and third years for casting the series Rent-A-Goalie. Both Jenny and Sara spent years in the business working as assistants and then associates for other casting directors, before branching out on their own. They work mostly on Canadian projects but cross over onto American material when the opportunity presents itself. They love the particular challenges that casting a project brings, but mostly they enjoy helping a project realize its creative vision. |
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Costume Designer – Laura Montgomery Laura Montgomery is a Costume Designer for film, television and theatre. Her design for award-winning films showcases her skilled eye for colour, texture and style. Her extensive knowledge of contemporary, vintage and period clothing, married with a flair for creative storytelling, has made her work in demand amongst cutting-edge productions. Laura is an honours graduate of the University of Toronto in Literature and European Studies. While at U of T, she studied stage and costume design under Astrid Jansen and designed and built theatrical costumes for Shakespeare’s “Pericles” and “The Fiddler on the Roof”. Laura continued her studies at Ryerson University where she won the G. Raymond Chang award for “Best Achievement in Production Design and Scenography”. After completing her education, Laura continued to design for theatre, later expanding into film and television. Drawing inspiration from fine art, architecture and international design, she brings enthusiasm and passion to every project. Laura Montgomery’s film and television credits include “When Moses Woke”(Gemini Award Winner for Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program), “Coopers’ Camera” (TIFF Official Selection 2008), “El Otro Lado del Pasillo” (L.A. Method Fest winner for Best Short Film), “Puck Hogs”, “St. Roz”, “The Cello”, “The Superstar Hair Challenge II”, and “The Smart Woman Survival Guide”. She has had the honor of being mentored by Delphine White, Martha Mann and Antoinette Messam. Laura is an acting board member of CAFTCAD, the Canadian Alliance of Film and Television Costume Arts and Design. |
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SPFX Makeup Artist – David Scott David Scott is a seasoned veteran of the Makeup Effects field in Toronto. He has produced work for many effects shops as well as under his own company, Form & Dynamics. Major credits include 300, Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Tideland, as well as many others including numerous television episodes, commercials and live performances. |
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Makeup – Melissa Zimmerman In 2004, after spending 15 painfully grueling years as an office minion, Melissa finally realized her dream of becoming a makeup artist and has been working in film ever since. Leaving the corporate world is the best decision she's made to date. |
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Sound Mixer – David Ottier David Ottier is the owner/operator of MidCoast Productions Inc. A internationally known and award winning production sound team. From 'Shake Hands With the Devil' in Rwanda to mixing on location for 'Chef School Season 1' which won the Gemini for best reality series. Genie nominated for 'This Beautiful City' for Best Overall Sound. David has traveled the world providing every shoot with feature film quality sound no matter what the conditions were. His clients include: Cineflix 'Next Film', Food Network, W Network, Global, MTV, YTV, Bank of America, Nike, National Geographic, Discovery Channel just to name a few. Every shoot deserves great sound David and his team ensures that every shot every scene is given the utmost respect and attention to detail throughout the audio spectrum. |
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Stunt Coordinator – Chris Cordell Chris Cordell has been acting since he was 12 and stunting since he was 17. The oldest of six children he learned how to entertain and the importance of good story telling by keeping his younger siblings enthralled with tales of adventure and exciting exploits. He has kept that love for theatrics and transferred it into his work as a stunt coordinator. Helping a director tell his/her story through actor action, stunts and visual dynamics is his highest priority. Being an integral part of telling an entertaining story is his greatest reward. Some recent credits include stunt coordinating for Bruce McDonald on “Pontypool”, stunt acting as Leonard for Eric Canuel on “Flashpoint” and performing stunt action for Edgar Wright on the ultra big budget feature film “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” |
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1st AD – Jonnie Katz A former professional musician, Jonnie fell into AD'ing on Emmy award winning Kissinger and Nixon. After 14 years of cutting his teeth on features with directors like John Woo, Bob Saget, George Hickenlooper and Gary Himes and TV series such as "Monk", the "Gaurdian" and "Playmakers" Jonnie continues to think fast, talk fast and "drive the bus" with passion |
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Location Manager – Brad Alexander Brad is the Location Manager on “The Shrine”. |
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Gaffer – Dave Lewis David Lewis was born in Western Canada and grew up with an interest in photography from a very early age. In the Mid-90’s he came to Ontario to finally pursue that interest as a career. Dave’s film and television credits include Director of Photography on the Canada/France co-production TV series “Star Hunter”, Gaffer on the YTV Series “Monster Warriors” and the HGTV series “Mansions” and most recently on the soon to be released British film “We’rewolves”, airing in the US this Halloween. He also has Gripping credits as Best Boy on the Discovery Channels “The Great Sperm Race” and on the Docu-Drama “The Family”, which recently aired on the History channel. His talents in lighting can also be seen in a vast number of Music Videos and Commercials which have aired world wide. Dave is married with two children and lives in Toronto. |
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Key Grip – Greg Murray Greg has been a part of the Toronto film industry since 1994. With credits too numerous to mention in the music video and commercial world, he has on occasion returned to the feature length world. Playing again, his preferred role as dolly grip... and Key. Credits in the feature world include "Robocop - Prime Directives", "Touching Wild Horses", "Washed Up", "The Note", and countless movies of the week. Lost of late in the scurge of reality TV, Greg is pleased to be working on features again. Thanks Knautz! |
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EPK Director – Adam Beck Adam Beck was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. He worked for Noitaminanimation, an animation and postproduction house in Ottawa before attending Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal. There he was awarded the Technicolor Award for Excellence in Narrative Filmmaking for his thesis project Curlew Sandpiper. Adam recently completed his studies at Concordia with a Major in Film Production and a Minor in Photography. He currently works for Brookstreet Pictures where he is directing an episodic web-series. |
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Production & Transport Coordinator – Stephen Papadimitriou From a young age, Stephen knew that he wanted to work in the film business. Watching movies like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm street on his families tiny 14' combo TV/VCR, Stephen developed a love for the horror genre. Not understanding how films were made, thinking that the actors decided how things were done, he started to participate in theater at school and going to acting camp in the summer. As he got older, he would direct friends in elaborate scenes after hours of watching movies. By the time Stephen was in high school he began to find out how movies were made and realized that he wanted to become a director. Writing scripts and using the Hi8 Camcorders and tape to tape editing systems that his school had available, he started to discover film making techniques and really understanding how things worked. Inspired by films like Reservoir Dogs, he began to feel his dreams could be possible. Taking a co-op placement at a production company, Stephen got his real taste of what production was like. In between movies, Stephen has managed to write, produce, and direct four short films. Ranging from horror to satire to post apocalyptic destruction, Stephen has created his own style of film making. |
