Who Am I
I have worked professionally in the creative world for over 25 years, but my introduction to this world started as a teenager at the Manitoba Theatre Centre working backstage in props, then later studying Fine Arts at Concordia University and working as a photographer assistant and freelance photographer while holding a deep passion for storytelling through film throughout. I consumed every classic movie Serge Losique presented during my student years and continued when I became a member of the British Film Institute while living in London UK. Moving into film seemed inevitable. I opened Moving Films Inc. in 2006.
My role as producer starts with an idea on a scrap of paper and grows to become a collaborative effort of a creative team, crew and actors. Thanks to the creative collaboration with many talented people, those efforts are now international award-winning films including the Gabriel Award (2007) for "Geometry of Love' which was later selected by the Peabody Foundation to be included in the Chicago Museum of Broadcast Excellence. My most recent film “Multiverse”, was released in 2020, was listed by the NYT – Streaming as one of the top five sci-fi films to watch. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/movies/science-fiction-movies-streaming.html I was also one of three Canadian producers sponsored by Telefilm Canada to attend the 2014 New York IFP Independent Film Producers - No Borders Conference (now Gotham), TIFF International Finance Forum, Tiff International Producer Lab and Rotterdam Producer Lab.
Current Projects
Beneath the Faceless Mountain – A feature film project inspired by my personal experience living in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. The film is based on the book “Beneath the Faceless Mountain” by Roberta Rees. Oliver Schmitz (Mapantsula, Life Above All) is attached as Director. The landscape of the story unfolds within the shadow of the sheared off rockface of Frank Slide/Turtle Mountain. It is a story of romance, loss, and belonging that revolve around a child in 1942 and a woman in the present whose lives intersect in ways that transcend time and space. It is not so much a love story but rather a story about love.
Mystery's Egg – This is a deeply personal reflection on the unresolved grieving that haunts life when my sister, a loved one, was neither dead or alive but missing – for 37 years, and the profound of joy of miracles that came when she was found. The reunion received national frontpage coverage shortly after my sister died in 2016. (Globe & Mail Dec 28, 2016). The work is part travelogue, part memoir and part spiritual confusion that is part of this journey through ambiguous loss, grieving, and profound Gratitude.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-rhena-bliss-was-missing-in-plain-sight-for-36years/article33444861/#comments
N.B - I am particularly grateful to my friends, family and colleagues for their encouragement in pursuing this highly personal undertaking
I have worked professionally in the creative world for over 25 years, but my introduction to this world started as a teenager at the Manitoba Theatre Centre working backstage in props, then later studying Fine Arts at Concordia University and working as a photographer assistant and freelance photographer while holding a deep passion for storytelling through film throughout. I consumed every classic movie Serge Losique presented during my student years and continued when I became a member of the British Film Institute while living in London UK. Moving into film seemed inevitable. I opened Moving Films Inc. in 2006.
My role as producer starts with an idea on a scrap of paper and grows to become a collaborative effort of a creative team, crew and actors. Thanks to the creative collaboration with many talented people, those efforts are now international award-winning films including the Gabriel Award (2007) for "Geometry of Love' which was later selected by the Peabody Foundation to be included in the Chicago Museum of Broadcast Excellence. My most recent film “Multiverse”, was released in 2020, was listed by the NYT – Streaming as one of the top five sci-fi films to watch. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/movies/science-fiction-movies-streaming.html I was also one of three Canadian producers sponsored by Telefilm Canada to attend the 2014 New York IFP Independent Film Producers - No Borders Conference (now Gotham), TIFF International Finance Forum, Tiff International Producer Lab and Rotterdam Producer Lab.
Current Projects
Beneath the Faceless Mountain – A feature film project inspired by my personal experience living in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. The film is based on the book “Beneath the Faceless Mountain” by Roberta Rees. Oliver Schmitz (Mapantsula, Life Above All) is attached as Director. The landscape of the story unfolds within the shadow of the sheared off rockface of Frank Slide/Turtle Mountain. It is a story of romance, loss, and belonging that revolve around a child in 1942 and a woman in the present whose lives intersect in ways that transcend time and space. It is not so much a love story but rather a story about love.
Mystery's Egg – This is a deeply personal reflection on the unresolved grieving that haunts life when my sister, a loved one, was neither dead or alive but missing – for 37 years, and the profound of joy of miracles that came when she was found. The reunion received national frontpage coverage shortly after my sister died in 2016. (Globe & Mail Dec 28, 2016). The work is part travelogue, part memoir and part spiritual confusion that is part of this journey through ambiguous loss, grieving, and profound Gratitude.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-rhena-bliss-was-missing-in-plain-sight-for-36years/article33444861/#comments
N.B - I am particularly grateful to my friends, family and colleagues for their encouragement in pursuing this highly personal undertaking
