MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF BC MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF BC MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF BC MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF BC

MPPIA

Motion Picture Production Industry Association of BC

Members

The Motion Picture Production Industry Association of BC (MPPIA) invites you to join us as we work to ensure a strong future for film and television production in British Columbia.

Membership in MPPIA offers a range of benefits that includes networking opportunities, joint marketing initiatives, industry building events, and government, business and community outreach.

MPPIA’s membership represents BC’s production community broadly across the industry’s subsectors, and exemplifies collaboration for the common good of the industry, and for the benefit of BC’s creative sector.

In 2020-21, MPPIA members worked closely with industry and government partners to navigate the extraordinary circumstances of the global pandemic and its local impacts. Our ‘town hall’ panel series helped connect the industry community throughout the year — with over 30,000 participants tuning in to hear their peers discuss the challenges and solutions for the industry’s safe return to work.

This town hall series can be viewed on our Facebook page.

Have a voice, be a part of the vision: Join MPPIA.
MPPIA Board of Directors for 2021-22
MPPIA Board Executive 2021-22
Chair – Peter Leitch, North Shore/Mammoth Studios
Vice Chair – Phil Klapwyk, IATSE 891
Vice Chair – Michelle Grady, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Treasurer – Craig Langdon, Vancouver Mobile Dressing Rooms
Secretary – Kendrie Upton, DGC BC

MPPIA recognizes that we live and work on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations.

Member Roster

MPPIA’s membership is made up of industry leaders from each sector of British Columbia’s production industry.

Member Roster

Daryl Litke • ACFC West
Trina Pollard • Actsafe Safety Association
Tracey Wood • AMPTP
Sean O'Reilly • Arcana Studios
Paul Klassen • BC Council of Film Unions
Greg Bonhomme • BMO
Ron Hrynuik • Bridge Studios
Kelly Santos • Cast & Crew Entertainment Services
Tracey Friesen • CMPA – Canadian Media Producers Association
Lindsay Elizabeth Donovan • Company 3 Vancouver
Kimberlee Alexander • Cool Air Rentals Ltd.
Kendrie Upton • Directors Guild of Canada, British Columbia
Cheryl Nex • Entertainment Partners Canada Inc
Chris Newport • Herc Entertainment Services
Wendy Newman • IATSE Local 669 Intl. Cinematographers Guild
Crystal Braunwarth • IATSE Local 891
John Lee • K & L Holdings Co. Ltd.
Gemma Martini • Martini Film Studios
Peter Cameron-Inglis • Mastermind Studios
Eleanor O'Connor • MBS Equipment Company Canada Ltd
Wendy Noss • Motion Picture Association - Canada
Veronica Sullivan • NBCUniversal
Amy Lang • North Shore Studios
Johanna Gravelle • Panavision Canada
Andrew Jha • Picture Shop
Steve Demeter • Sim Video International Inc.
Nav Degun • Sunbelt Rentals of Canada Inc
David Holm • Teamsters LOCAL 155
Lesley Brady • Union of BC Performers
Ron Simoes • United Rentals
Peter Mitchell • Vancouver Film Studios
Craig Langdon • Vancouver Mobile Dressing Rooms Ltd.
Tammy Forbes • Whites Studios Inc.
Erica McLean • William F. White International

Robert Bolle • AFEX Corpay
Peter Geering • AngusFilm Production Services Inc.
Bret Dougherty • Canada MiniBins.com Ltd
Alec Fatalevich • Canadian Motion Picture Park
Doreen Manuel • Capilano University Bosa Centre
Daniel Domachowski • Circus
Barb Roberts • City of Abbotsford Economic Development
T.C Brotherston • City of Burnaby
Christian Allen • Commercial Production Association of Western Canada
Connie (Neumayer) Spola • Davidson & Sons
Juliet Smith • Dentons Canada LLP/S.E.N.C.R.L.
Rachelle McCormack • District of West Vancouver
John Cheng • Driving Force
Darron James • Film Logic Customs Brokers Inc.
David W. Hamilton • Front Row Insurance Brokers Inc.
Patrick Doiron • Industrial Works Ltd.
Roger Williams • Inspired Image Picture Company Inc.
Jamie Goehring • Lighthouse Pictures
Robert Moseley • Luxury Transport Inc.
John F. Braico • Matrix Production Services Ltd.
Edgar Groom • National Bank of Canada
Jennifer Janetka • North Vancouver District Film Office
Clare Husk • North Vancouver Film Office (CNV)
Phil Klapwyk • Omnifilm Entertainment Ltd.
Kaitlyn Peters • Opus Vancouver
Donald Pinkey • Pacific Gateway Hotel
Amber Clarke • Paradox Hotel Vancouver
Jason Gilmore • Phoenix Truck & Crane
Samir Modhwadia • Richmond Film Office
Angela Toffolo • Rosewood Hotel Georgia
Roy Stevenson • Roy's Copier Service Ltd.
Leanne Harry • Royal Bank
Paul Sharpe • Sharpe Sound Studios Inc.
Denise Muyco • StratusCore Services, Ltd.
Penny Graham • Sutton Place Hotel, The
Paul Christie • The Characters Talent Agency
Hal Beckett • The Vancouver Film Orchestra
Val Gafka • Township of Langley
Kurt Guess • Trinity Power
Janice Mak • Versante Hotel
Matthew Tingey • West Coast Buy & Sell

Genevieve Bridges
Ken Brooker
Dian Cross-Massey
Jason Dowdeswell
Justin Nelson
Massoud Abedi • ABCO Film Corporation
Richard Bullock • Art Mechanics Inc.
Ted Bauman • Bauman Entertainment Inc
Colleen Mitchell • Beginning and End Prod.Ltd.
Don Thompson • Blaze Creative
Graem Luis • Blind Alley Entertainment
Michael Simard • Bruno's Blues Productions Inc.
Drew Locke • Carmel Road Films Inc.
Charles Lyall • Charles Lyall Productions Ltd.
Peter Cummings • Clear Shot Entertainment Inc.
Warren Carr • Coast Production Services Ltd.
Nancy Basi • Consultant
Jason Crosby • Cosby Marine Film Services Inc.
Shyam Valera • Dunya Media
Bonnie R Benwick • Freelance
JUSTIS GREENE • Greene Ventures Inc.
Tom Locke • Hub Consulting Services
Julia Neville • IATSE Western Canadian Office
Jennifer Sandoval • Independent consultant
Peter Lhotka • Intrepid Films Inc.
Michelle Morris • Lily Pictures
Fred Keating • Lindisfarne Productions Inc.
Kelly Maxwell • Line 21 Media Services Ltd.
Colleen Nystedt • PlaceSpeak
James Cousineau • ProPics Canada Media Ltd
Cynde Harmon • Really Real Films Inc
Allan Harmon • Really Real Films Inc.
Henrik Meyer • Red Cedar Films Inc.
Sandi Richter Cooper • SetTest
Fawn McDonald • Singing Stone Pictures Inc
Haydn Wazelle • Tabula Dada & ZedDrive.ca
Graysen Sangster • TBD
JP Finn • The Flash
Gina Hole Lazarowich • THEY Film
Lisa Towers • Towers Pictures Inc.
Hans Dayal • Trembling Lambs Productions Inc.
Reece Mack • Unit Publicist
Ron French • Unity Pictures Group Inc
Amanda Verhagen • Verhagen Entertainment
Pauline Heaton • Watervisions

Traei Tsai • BC Minorities for Film and TV Society
Deron Johnston • Britannia Mine Museum Society
Susan Saranchuk • Cdn. Society of Cinematographers
Darlene Tait • Cinevic Independent Film Society
Jason Mackay • Collective Bunch Society
Paul Armstrong • Crazy8s Film Society
Carol Whiteman • Creative Women Workshops
Lyn Vince • Intersections Media Opportunities for Youth Society
Nikolina Ruzic • Pacific National Exhibition
Alison Fraser • Pacific Screenwriting Program
Nicolas Ayerbe Barona • The Vancouver Short Film Festival Society
Frances Bergin • Vancouver International Film Festival Film & Television
Kerry McDowall • Vancouver Post Alliance
Angela Heck • Whistler Film Festival Society

Peter Leitch
Mostafa KESHVARI • BC Minorities for Film and TV Society
Geoff Teoli • City of Vancouver
Raila Gutman • CMPA-BC
Marnie Gee • Creative BC
Prem Gill • Creative BC
Peter Klassen • Creative BC
Julie Stangeland • Creative BC
Robert Wong • Creative BC
Kat Yee • CreativeBC
Brenda Bailey • DigiBC – The Digital Media & Wireless Assoc.
John Banovich • Freelance
Carleen Kyle • Lotsa Pictures Inc
Teri Snelgrove • National Film Board of Canada
Joan Miller • Regional Film Commissioners Association of BC
Suzanne Thompson • Self
Barbara Chirinos • Telefilm Canada Western Region
Liza D’Aguilar Huget • UBCP/ACTRA
Kathleen Gilbert • Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission
Jennifer Buchanan • Warner Bros.
Grace Chin • Women In Film & Television Vancouver

Richard Grieve • Bardel Entertainment
Keri Young • Barnstorm VFX
Katy Lennon • CoSA VFX
Rob Simmons • Doberman Pictures
Heather Puttock • Kickstart Entertainment
Heather Paul • Lux Visual Effects Inc.
Kim Dent Wilder • Mainframe
Millie Cox • Method Studios
Chad Cortvriendt • Mr. Wolf
Cindy Khoo • Scanline VFX
Catherine Winder • Skybound North
Fione He • Slap Happy Cartoons
Hasmi Ferguson • Stellar Creative Lab
Carl Whiteside • Waterproof
Jay Surridge • Yeti Creative Farm
Patrick Mooney • Zoic Studios

Sharon Taylor • Animal Logic Studios (Vancouver) Ltd.
Sarah Nathanson • Atomic Cartoons
Daniel Masuda • Cinesite Studios
Sarah McNair • Disney Animation
Stuart Farley • Double Negative
Spencer Kent • ILM
Shawn Walsh • Image Engine
Michelle Grady • Sony Pictures Imageworks
Ben Kalina • Titmouse Canada
Steven Read • Versatile Media
Daryl Chappell • Wildbrain

Creative Industries Week

Since 2015, content creators – from across film & television, interactive digital media, book and magazine publishing, and music – have been working together under the banner BC Creates to share the story of the economic, social and cultural contributions at the heart of B.C.’s creative economy.

For the first time in 2021, BC Creates Virtually with sector-specific online events and story-sharing that took place the week of April 12-16.

Industry leaders and creators together presented a multi-sector Showcase featuring contributions from each sector under the umbrella of Creative BC.
MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF BC

The 2021 Creative Industries Week Showcase “Growing Forward”

GOLF

The MPPIA Stephen J. Cannell Classic Golf Tournament & Green Carpet Wrap Party

The annual MPPIA fundraiser has been postponed until further notice.

In the ambitious business of 21st century motion picture production, BC is helping to serve the ever increasing global appetite for screen entertainment. Collaborating with industry, eight Regional Film Commissions, and province-wide municipal film offices and government agencies, the Provincial Film Commission at Creative BC is the key gateway to motion picture production in BC.

Community

Collaboration is the foundation of MPPIA’s work and we recognize the value of our many partners — in business, government and local communities across the province who have helped make the industry a success story in British Columbia.

MPPIA and its members actively give back to BC communities in gratitude for the support and cooperation that helps make this industry tick. MPPIA also stages the Stephen J. Cannell Classic fundraising golf tournament annually, which endows community-based charitable organizations, and also supports emerging BC filmmakers through the MPPIA Short Film Award.

The global pandemic of 2020 required our local production community to rally together to work through the impacts of the crisis unlike any time in our collective history. In 2021, we produced a short PSA — A Very BC Production — to thank the many unseen contributors who made our safe return to work possible.

Equity + Inclusion

MPPIA’s Equity & Inclusion Committee was established in early 2019 to help guide meaningful forward movement for change in the BC’s production industry, based on the three pillars of education, engagement and advocacy, and guided by a mandate to:

  • Consult and draw from the experiences of equity−seeking groups and diverse communities to help identify and articulate the challenges of entering and succeeding in the industry.
  • Recommend policy and initiatives to MPPIA .
  • Participate with Creative BC and other industry stakeholders in the development of programs that improve pathways and reduce barriers into the production industry.

Education & Training

MPPIA’s Education & Training Committee brings together members of the BC motion picture production community to share information on industry training and education in British Columbia.

The Committee tracks and facilitates consistent, industry specific and standardized education and training that keeps the BC industry globally competitive. The Committee monitors and manages the Motion Picture Industry Orientation Course (MPIO) in cooperation with Actsafe and the Provincial Film Commission at Creative BC.

The MPPIA Education & Training Committee also presents the Motion Picture Industry Career Expo annually — stay tuned for more information.

The MPPIA Short Film Award

Presented in cooperation with Creative BC and the Whistler Film Festival, the MPPIA Short Film Award provides one filmmaker with an opportunity to further develop his/her/their directing career by realizing a unique creative vision. Established in 2007, The Award was founded to recognize and celebrate the contribution of film and television to the Province of British Columbia.

The successful candidate receives a $15,000 cash award and in-kind production services up to $100,000 for a short film project.

This annual Award is possible with the generous support of British Columbia’s motion picture production community.

  • 2019, Wildflower, Heather Perluzzo Director
  • 2018, B-Side, Alayna Silverberg Director.
  • 2017, 20 Minutes to Life, Veronika Kurz Director
  • 2016, Good Girls Don’t, Ana de Lara Director
  • 2015, Hoods, Maja Aro Director
  • 2014, Vehicular Romanticide, Andrew Rowe Director
  • 2013, The Future Perfect, Nick Citton Director
  • 2012, True Love Waits, Jon Ornoy Director
  • 2011,Beauty Mark, Mark Ratzlaff Director
  • 2010,Joanna Makes a Friend , Jeremy Lutter Director
  • 2009, Move Out Clean, Kelly-Ruth Mercier Director
  • 2008,The Gray Matter, Steven Deneault Director
  • 2007, The Light of Family Burnam, Marshall Axani Director

Environmental sustainability is the future of filmmaking

Reel Green mobilizes the motion picture production industry’s efforts for an environmentally sustainable production industry — in our province and beyond — educating, empowering and inspiring production communities to embrace sustainable production practices.

Reel Green was established in 2006 by the (former) BC Film Commission in partnership with MPPIA/the BC production industry.

Today, under the wing of the Provincial Film Commission at Creative BC and with support from the industry-based Reel Green Advisory Group, the program continues to thrive and evolve a culture of sustainability, both in BC’s production industry and in the broader, national and international industry landscape.

In April 2021, Reel Green partnered with Pacific Parklands Foundation for the first ever Reel Earth Day Challenge. With contributions from across BC’s production community, the inaugural event raised nearly $165K in funding that will support ecological conservation and enhancement projects in seven Metro Vancouver regional parks.