she came from the future…
An Original APTN Pilot
Premieres Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 10PM
THE PRODUCERS
Kent Sobey, Sandra Edmunds, Lorne Cardinal, and Richard Story.
RICHARD STORY
Creator/Writer/Director
Richard Story is a Salish/Kanaka filmmaker based in Toronto. Over the past twenty-five years Richard has written & directed over seventy shorts and two feature-length movies, Some Letters to a Young Poet and Echo Lake. His work has been screened at film festivals throughout the world and sold to the broadcasters APTN, TMN - The Movie Network, SuperChannel, Vision TV and Bravo. He has served as artistic director for the imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival and programmer for Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival. Richard has taught filmmaking courses at Ontario College of Art & Design and George Brown College and is a founding member of Indigenous Culture & Media Innovations.
SANDRA EDMUNDS
Co-Producer
Sandra Edmunds produced the feature film Echo Lake, shot entirely on location in the rain forest of northern British Columbia. Echo Lake was sold to TMN - The Movie Network, Super Channel, Vision TV and was screened at film festivals in Montreal, Germany, Hawaii, Portugal and the U.S. Sandra has worked as a film archivist and is a poet and an aspiring painter.
KENT SOBEY
Producer
Kent Sobey is an accomplished Director and Producer. Beginning with his short film Last Chance, produced while at the Vancouver Film School, Kent went on to form Farmhouse Productions in Halifax, Nova Scotia and to write and direct two more short films Roaring Bull and Fox Brook Road. In 2003, Kent produced and directed the film, Air Guitar in Oulu to rave reviews. John Doyle of the Globe & Mail reported it was "made with deft wit by director Kent Sobey." Air Guitar in Oulu was sold to Bravo!, IFC, and The Sundance Channel. Kent has produced and directed concert films for clients including EMI Records. Kent produced Rubarbicon for IFC, in association with Hit Media, a new feature mocumentary. Kent is the creator and producer of a comedy series entitled Sutherland High, developed by The Comedy Network. Kent has also produced the pilot episode of a new sci-fi horror series Doppelganger for the Rogers Mobile Content Fund.
LORNE CARDINAL
Producer
Lorne Cardinal is a Cree actor, Director and Executive Producer who hails from Sucker Creek, Alberta. Over the last decade Lorne has been acting for film, television and the stage throughout Canada and the United States. Lorne's television credits include Corner Gas, Blackfly, Jake & The Kid, North of 60, Lonesome Dove and the movie North of 60: Distant Drumming. His performance in the MOW Tecumseh: The Last Warrior earned him a First Americans In The Arts nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also appeared in Insomnia with Robin Williams and Al Pacino. Lorne is a series regular on the APTN show Renegadepress.com. Lorne directed an episode for the series in 2005 and the episode, “The Union” was very well received. Lorne is a graduate of the University of Alberta.
ABOUT TIME TRAVELER PRODUCTIONS INC.
Time Traveler Productions Inc. was established in Toronto in 2008 to produce screen-based culturally-relevant entertainment. The company specializes in achieving cinematic production value by using hand-crafted indie approach. Employing small crews, shooting in real locations, Time Traveler Productions is an early adopter of emerging digital cinema technology. It will also incorporate a New Media component and develop a graphic novel as a complement to the televised series The Time Traveler.
Kent Sobey, Sandra Edmunds, Lorne Cardinal, and Richard Story.
RICHARD STORY
Creator/Writer/Director
Richard Story is a Salish/Kanaka filmmaker based in Toronto. Over the past twenty-five years Richard has written & directed over seventy shorts and two feature-length movies, Some Letters to a Young Poet and Echo Lake. His work has been screened at film festivals throughout the world and sold to the broadcasters APTN, TMN - The Movie Network, SuperChannel, Vision TV and Bravo. He has served as artistic director for the imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival and programmer for Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival. Richard has taught filmmaking courses at Ontario College of Art & Design and George Brown College and is a founding member of Indigenous Culture & Media Innovations.
SANDRA EDMUNDS
Co-Producer
Sandra Edmunds produced the feature film Echo Lake, shot entirely on location in the rain forest of northern British Columbia. Echo Lake was sold to TMN - The Movie Network, Super Channel, Vision TV and was screened at film festivals in Montreal, Germany, Hawaii, Portugal and the U.S. Sandra has worked as a film archivist and is a poet and an aspiring painter.
KENT SOBEY
Producer
Kent Sobey is an accomplished Director and Producer. Beginning with his short film Last Chance, produced while at the Vancouver Film School, Kent went on to form Farmhouse Productions in Halifax, Nova Scotia and to write and direct two more short films Roaring Bull and Fox Brook Road. In 2003, Kent produced and directed the film, Air Guitar in Oulu to rave reviews. John Doyle of the Globe & Mail reported it was "made with deft wit by director Kent Sobey." Air Guitar in Oulu was sold to Bravo!, IFC, and The Sundance Channel. Kent has produced and directed concert films for clients including EMI Records. Kent produced Rubarbicon for IFC, in association with Hit Media, a new feature mocumentary. Kent is the creator and producer of a comedy series entitled Sutherland High, developed by The Comedy Network. Kent has also produced the pilot episode of a new sci-fi horror series Doppelganger for the Rogers Mobile Content Fund.
LORNE CARDINAL
Producer
Lorne Cardinal is a Cree actor, Director and Executive Producer who hails from Sucker Creek, Alberta. Over the last decade Lorne has been acting for film, television and the stage throughout Canada and the United States. Lorne's television credits include Corner Gas, Blackfly, Jake & The Kid, North of 60, Lonesome Dove and the movie North of 60: Distant Drumming. His performance in the MOW Tecumseh: The Last Warrior earned him a First Americans In The Arts nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also appeared in Insomnia with Robin Williams and Al Pacino. Lorne is a series regular on the APTN show Renegadepress.com. Lorne directed an episode for the series in 2005 and the episode, “The Union” was very well received. Lorne is a graduate of the University of Alberta.
ABOUT TIME TRAVELER PRODUCTIONS INC.
Time Traveler Productions Inc. was established in Toronto in 2008 to produce screen-based culturally-relevant entertainment. The company specializes in achieving cinematic production value by using hand-crafted indie approach. Employing small crews, shooting in real locations, Time Traveler Productions is an early adopter of emerging digital cinema technology. It will also incorporate a New Media component and develop a graphic novel as a complement to the televised series The Time Traveler.
