BYRON MARTIN

Producer.

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Byron A. Martin is an award-winning producer who develops independent film, television and documentary projects. To date he has produced over 100 hours of television, filming projects in over thirty countries. He has produced projects for Disney, Sony, Universal, Lifetime, Turner, Bell Media, DHX, Great American Country and Crown Media. From THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, LAND OF THE DEAD, RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (3D) to AMERICAN PIE presents THE NAKED MILE, Byron has a tremendous scale and scope of production experience, producing and managing over $300M.

He has managed productions for some of Hollywood's leading producers. including Jerry Bruckheimer, Sam Raimi, Raffaellla De Laurentis, Laurence Mark, John Singleton, Mark Canton, Lauren Shuler Donner, Dick Wolf,

Ralph Winter and Don Carmody.

In 2021, he was honoured as the Best Canadian Film and TV Production Company by Corporate Vision at their annual Media Innovator Awards. Most recently, his feature project SOMETHING LIKE TRUTH was the

Canadian winner at the 2022 JETS initiative during Berlinale.

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JINDER CHALMERS

Creator & Writer, Executive Producer, Diversity Consultant.

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Jinder Oujla-Chalmers of Inner Vision Productions Inc. is a writer, producer, director and facilitator.  Jinder and her privately owned company have been working on Diversity issues in the media sector for over thirty years.  Jinder was instrumental in creating and designing the WGC Bellmedia Screenwriter’s Diversity Program.  Its aim was to engage young screenwriters from diverse backgrounds so that they could further their careers and content by working writer’s room across Canada.  That program saw 225 new screenwriters over a ten -year period, complete it.

Jinder also helped create and design the Bellmedia Diverse Producer’s Program. Their aim was to engage diverse producers so that they could compete in the marketplace.  That program was started by Phil King and Corrie Coe and administered by Karen King.

She was the first board member to help start the Asian Heritage Film Society in Vancouver, BC which gave screen time to all Asian’s films.  She is the past VP of The International Female Eye Festival which gives women a platform to showcase their stories from third world countries.  She created the young industry sessions that helps those voices find distribution in North America.

She has also created and facilitated curriculums for film and television screenwriting programmes for Kingston University, London, UK and at BCIT School of Journalism. She taught and created her course ‘The Manipulation of the Media” for young adults at the King George School of English in Vancouver, BC.

As the writer, director and executive producer of a one-hour documentary, Colour Blind, Jinder was the first Indo-Canadian tackling racial inequality in our high schools throughout Canada.  That documentary went on to receive many accolades and awards and was distributed throughout the world by the NFB. 

Jinder also went on to create and write a one-hour drama series entitled Combat Hospital for CanWest Global Media. She is the 2018 recipient of the FRESH NEW VOICE award for her script ELVIS AND MRS. SINGH. In 2019 she was the recipient of the WGC Sondra Kelly Award for her creation of a four-part mini-series for CBC entitled, Ocean’s Apart-Komagata Maru Incident and many more credits.

She is a published author of the SIKH IMMIGRANT STORY the true story of the first billionaire in Canada who worked in the forest Industry. A historical perspective of South Asians contribution to the forestry economy in Canada.  Jinder continues to push for diversity in all she creates.  She is currently a Board Member of the City of Toronto Film, Television, Digital Media Board and on the Writer’s Guild of Canada Diversity Committee where she is compiling data on the new Inclusion and Equity Report on Diversity on Showrunners and Writing Rooms across Canada.

MEAGHAN DENOMME

Literary Agent at GGA.

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Meaghan Denomme is a Literary Agent at GGA. Based in Toronto, this prestigious boutique agency is well-known as a home for many of Canada’s top Artists. Initially an Assistant in the Playwrights’ Licensing Department, Meaghan accelerated quickly within the company and now also represents Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers. Meaghan began her career in publishing at McClelland & Stewart.