THE REAL INGLORIOUS BASTARDS
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Min Sook Lee is an award winning filmmaker with a diverse and prolific portfolio of multimedia work.Min Sook is the co-creator of the comedy series ‘SHE’S THE MAYOR’ which premiered on Vision TV in 2011. She has produced and directed numerous critically acclaimed documentaries, including: TIGER SPIRIT – an examination of the division of the two Koreas shot on both sides of the border (Donald Brittain Gemini Award for Best Social/Political Documentary), HOGTOWN – an analysis of the intersection of policing and municipal politics (Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary award at Hot Docs Festival); and EL CONTRATO – a look at the lives of migrant farm workers in Canada (nominated for the Donald Brittain Gemini ).
Min Sook’s films have been broadcast internationally and her films have traveled to festivals across the world. Her most recent film, MIGRANT DREAMS premiered at Hot Docs 2016.
Min Sook teaches documentary production in the Documentary Media (MFA) Program at Ryerson University.
Min Sook Lee - Director
Ed Barreveld - Producer
A veteran of the Canadian film and television industry, Ed Barreveld honed his filmmaking skills at the National Film Board of Canada. In 2000 he co-founded Storyline Entertainment for the company’s inaugural release Aftermath: The Remnants of War (Gemini nominee) and in 2004 he became sole principal of the company, focusing on point of view, auteur driven documentaries and history programming.
Storyline’s films are broadcast globally and have shown at major festivals such as Tribeca, Hot Docs, IDFA, TIFF and have garnered many awards, including an Emmy Award for Herman's House, Geminis for Shipbreakers and Tiger Spirit. Barreveld’s The World Before Her won Best Documentary prizes at Tribeca and Hot Docs 2012. In 2014 Storyline received eight Canadian Screen Nominations for Herman’s House, The Real Sherlock Holmes and The Real Inglorious Bastards, each receiving a best film nomination in their respective category, with The Real Inglorious Bastards bagging the award for best history program.
David Kazala - Editor
David Kazala’s outstanding work has contributed to the making of many acclaimed films including Storyline’s The World Before Her, Lone Twin, The Real MASH, It’s a Teen’s World: Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips and The Secret of the Snake Goddess
Bruce Lange - Editor
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Ken Myhr has scored over 75 award winning documentaries and feature films. Recent work includes The World Before Her, Herman’s House and The Market. His work is heard weekly on the opening credits of CBC’s The Nature of Things. He studied contemporary composition, jazz and world music at York University and studied with Ellington alumni Fred Stone, master drummer Trichy Sankaran, and African drummer Abraham Adzinya. He has contributed to many CD’s, including Cowboy Junkies and Jane Siberry.
Ken Myhr - Composer
Daniel Grant - Director of Photography
Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, award winning cinematographer Daniel Grant developed an interest in image-making at a young age through still photography. Matched with a love of film, this led him to pursue the craft of cinematography. Upon graduating from the film studies program at Ryerson University, he was awarded 1st Prize for Student Cinematography in Canada by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC). Since then he has accumulated a wide variety of credits as a cinematographer on over fifty short films, documentaries, and several feature films, including Canada’s first live-action 3D feature, Dead Before Dawn. His work has been shown at festivals around the world, such as Berlinale, Sundance, Slamdance, and the Toronto International Film Festival. The CSC recognized him with a 2011 nomination for his work on the drama Hangnail, he received a 2011 Gemini Award nomination for the documentary Love at the Twilite Motel and won a 2013 CSC award for this work on The Real Inglorious Bastards.
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Peter Sawade - Location Sound
Daniel Pellerin has worked in sound and music post production for film and television for the past 32 years, as recording and re-recording mixer / engineer, sound design and music supervisor / editor.
For the past 16 years, he has specialized in mixing, editing and music
supervising in digital 5.1 audio format for film, presently utilizing the most current digital technology, specializing in HD productions that heavily rely on CGI content.
He has been nominated for 11 Genie Awards for which he has won three (Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter”, Istvan Szabo’s “Sunshine” and Clement Virgo’s “Love Come Down”) and 16 Gemini Awards, for which he has won two (“Musicians in Exile” and “Under the Piano”). Hot Doc Awards for Sound include Nettie Wild’s “A Place Called Chiapas” and Ric Bienstock’s “Ebola: Inside an Outbreak”. In 2014 he received a Canadian Screen Award for best sound on the docudrama We Were Children.
Daniel Pellerin - Sound Design & Mix
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GhostFX - VFX
J. Bone is a Canadian comic book artist and writer whose first published work, SOLAR STELLA, received and Eisner Award Nomination 2001 (Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition). In 2002 J.Bone and J.Torres co-created ALISON DARE: LITTLE MISS ADVENTURES for ONI Press. He has continued to work in the field on such titles as DC Comics' BATMAN: BRAVE AND THE BOLD, SUPER FRIENDS, iZOMBIE and Marvel Comics’ TANGLED WEB, to name but a few. He was the inker on the Eisner Award-winning one-shot Batman/The Spirit.
J.Bone lives in Toronto.
Jason Bone - Illustrator
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Sean Kang - Assistant Editor
Lisa Valencia-Svensson is a Toronto based documentary film producer.
She produced Herman’s House (True/False, Full Frame, Hot Docs 2012) which received funding from the Ford Foundation JustFilms Initiative and the Sundance Institute and which participated in two Sundance Institute Labs. She is currently in production with the National Film Board of Canada on a related interactive documentary Inside Herman's House, and is producing the documentary feature Shadow Girl.
Other credits include Producer on Resilience: Stories of Single Black Mothers (OMNI TV 2010) and Associate Producer on The World Before Her (Tribeca 2012 Best Documentary, Hot Docs 2012 Best Canadian Documentary), The Market (IDFA 2010) and The Real MASH (History TV 2010).
She has a background in finance, community media, and research work. She produces films which explore political issues and socially relevant themes, and encourage audiences to view their world through a constructively critical lens.
Lisa Valencia-Svensson - Associate Producer
Shasha Nakhai - Production/Post-Production Coordinator
Shasha Nakhai joined Storyline in January 2011. Having graduated from Ryerson University’s Broadcast Journalism program, she has completed stints with Summerhill Entertainment, CBC Radio, CKLN fm and Africa Independent Television. Shasha came to Canada as an international student from Nigeria in 2003 and now resides in Toronto.
Her first documentary film, Baby Not Mine (2009) won awards at the Human Rights DocFest and Montreal World Film Festival. Her short documentaries including The Sugar Bowl (2011), Joe (2012) and Unsinkable (2012) have screened at the Hot Docs Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival and the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
The Real Inglorious Bastards was produced by Storyline Entertainment Inc. in association with Shaw Media and with the participation of Rogers Cable Network Fund, Rogers Documentary Fund, Canadian Media Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation Film and Television Tax Credits