EyeSteelFilm is a
Montreal-based
Canadian cinema production company co-founded by
Daniel Cross and
Mila Aung-Thwin
Mila Aung-Thwin is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, producer and activist whose films deal with social justice.
He had a multi-disciplinary education in arts, journalism, and photography. In 1998, he met his fellow director/producer Daniel Cross ...
, dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic expression. Today the studio is run by Co-Presidents Mila Aung-Thwin and Bob Moore.
Notable collective members
*
Daniel Cross - producer and director
*
Mila Aung-Thwin
Mila Aung-Thwin is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, producer and activist whose films deal with social justice.
He had a multi-disciplinary education in arts, journalism, and photography. In 1998, he met his fellow director/producer Daniel Cross ...
- producer and director
*Bob Moore - producer
;Directors (past and present)
*
Laura Bari
Laura Bari is an Argentinian born and Montréal based filmmmaker. She studied pedagogy at Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in psychopathology of the expression.
Her debut feature film, ''Antoine'' (2008), is an-award winning doc ...
- director
*
Yung Chang
Yung Chang is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm.
Chang is a graduate of Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal (BFA 99), the ...
- director
*Karina Garcia Casanova - director
*
Eric "Roach" Denis
Eric Denis better known as Eric "Roach" Denis is a Canadian documentary film maker and activist whose films deal with social justice, and particularly homelessness.
Earlier Life
Denis was born in Grenville, Quebec. At age 9, his parents divorced ...
- director
*
Mia Donovan
Mia Donovan is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. She is best known for her documentary '' Inside Lara Roxx'' released through EyeSteelFilm about 21-year-old Canadian Lara Roxx who in the spring of 2004, left her hometown Montreal heading to ...
- director
*
Lixin Fan - director
*
Omar Majeed
Omar Majeed is a Pakistani Canadian film director and producer who studied cinema at York University Film School and later on studied editing at the International Academy of Design in Toronto. He is the son of Pakistani actress and singer Musarr ...
- director
*
Peter Wintonick
Peter Kenneth Wintonick (June 10, 1953 – November 18, 2013) was a Canadian independent documentary filmmaker based in Montreal. A winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, former Thinker in Residence for the Premie ...
- director
*
Ryan Mullins
Ryan Mullins (born 1981) is a Canadian film director, cinematographer and editor. He is part of the Montreal-based Canadian film production company, EyeSteelFilm. His directing credits include the documentary short ''Volta (2009 film), Volta'', ...
- director
Films
;Full feature documentary films
;Short films
Films presently in progress include:
*''Rainforest: The Limit of Spleandor'' (by Richard Boyce), ''Inkulal'' (by Linda Vastrik), ''Inventing the Future'' (by Daniel Cross), ''Jingle Bell Rocks!'' (by Mitchell Kezin), ''Just A Click Away'' (by Laura Turek), ''Les Tickets'' (by Eric "Roach" Denis), ''Such Great Heights'' (by Richard Boyce), ''Turcot'' (by Daniel Cross)
Recognition
EyeSteelFilm has received numerous awards from international film festivals and annual television and film awards. EyeSteelFilm has collaborated with international broadcasters including
Super Channel,
PBS,
CBC,
National Geographic Channel
National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television television network, network and flagship (broadcasting), flagship channel owned by the National Geograp ...
,
The History Channel,
BBC,
YLE,
TV2 Denmark
TV 2 (''TV to'') is a Danish government-owned broadcast and subscription television station in Denmark based in Odense, Funen.
History
Since 1949, Danmarks Radio had been the sole provider of television in Denmark. Wanting to end the mono ...
,
ZDF ARTE
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all f ...
,
The Documentary Channel, SBS, etc. They have received support from the
Canada Council for the Arts,
SODEC,
CALQ, and
National Film Board of Canada.
*EyeSteelFilm is a ''
RealScreen'' magazine Global 100 Company.
*''
Montreal Mirror'' arts weekly chose the firm as one of the "Noisemaker"s of 2007.
*EyeSteelFilm founder and president was one of five MIPDOC Trailblazers of 2008.
Documentaristes du Canada - Quebec site about award to Daniel Cross
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References
External links
EyeSteelFilm official website
EyeSteelFilm Facebook area
EyeSteelFilm blip.tv channel
EyeSteelFilm imdb page
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Film production companies of Canada
Companies based in Montreal
Documentary film production companies
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Quebec Anglophone culture in Montreal