An eighteen-year veteran of the international television industry, Patricia has developed an impressive list of clients, partners and co-producers around the world. As president and owner of Scarlett Media Inc., a television and film distribution consulting company, she has developed ongoing relationships with many international broadcasters and producers, including a longstanding relationship with the South African Broadcasting Corporation beginning with SABC support for the documentary series “The Five Minute Project” in 1997, and including pre-buys of the popular children’s series “The Adventures of The AfterMath Crew” from 1999 to the present. She also packages television projects and acts as co-executive producer on select projects.
Patricia’s early experience in the industry began at TVOntario where she worked primarily in international sales. During that time she developed and nurtured a number of valuable relationships with producers and broadcasters which have culminated in a number of significant professional achievements, including her representation of “Ataranjuat:The Fast Runner”, winner of the Camera D’Or at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival.
Patricia Marie Scarlett | Executive Producer & Producer
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An eighteen-year veteran of the international television industry, Patricia has developed an impressive list of clients, partners and co-producers around the world. As president and owner of Scarlett Media Inc., a television and film distribution consulting company, she has developed ongoing relationships with many international broadcasters and producers, including a longstanding relationship with the South African Broadcasting Corporation beginning with SABC support for the documentary series “The Five Minute Project” in 1997, and including pre-buys of the popular children’s series “The Adventures of The AfterMath Crew” from 1999 to the present. She also packages television projects and acts as co-executive producer on select projects.
Patricia’s early experience in the industry began at TVOntario where she worked primarily in international sales. During that time she developed and nurtured a number of valuable relationships with producers and broadcasters which have culminated in a number of significant professional achievements, including her representation of “Ataranjuat:The Fast Runner”, winner of the Camera D’Or at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival.
In 1993, Stuart produced and co-directed the award-winning VISIONS OF LIGHT: The Art of Cinematography, about the history of cinematography in motion pictures. The New York Film Critics Circle, The National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics named VISIONS the year's best documentary while The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Los Angeles Times and The San Francisco Chronicle awarded it four-star reviews. VISIONS OF LIGHT was the first High Definition (HDTV) feature to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival (1993), and was selected for the Edinburgh, London, Telluride, Chicago, Toronto, New York, Munich, Tokyo and Sundance Film Festivals. A survey of 40 major film critics named it "the most critically acclaimed film of 1993."
In 1998, Stuart co-directed and co-wrote HOLLYWOODISM: Jews, Movies and the American Dream. Based on the acclaimed book by Neal Gabler, HOLLYWOODISM chronicles how Jewish immigrants founded and built Hollywood in the early twentieth century. The film garnered Stuart best director honours at Toronto's Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival and best documentary at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Stuart began his career first in academia. He has a Ph.D from Stanford University (1967), did post-graduate work at Oxford University (St. Antony's College) and was a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), from 1968 to 1981, where he pioneered the teaching of cultural history using feature films from around the world. In 1981 he published the book, Midnight Movies (Macmillan, 1981). Two decades later, Stuart combined his academic training with his filmmaking, by turning his book into an award-winning documentary, Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream.
Marilyn is the Associate Producer of the award winning feature film Love, Sex & Eating the Bones. This film won nine international festival awards including the CityTV prize for Best First Feature at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. Love, Sex & Eating the Bones was released theatrically in Canada in March 2004. The film received three 2005 Genie Awards nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Marilyn worked as Director of Development for Hungry Eyes Film & Television for three years. She was also Manager of Development and Marketing for Inner City Films. Marilyn was responsible for the sales of the Gemini award winning Life network series Skin Deep to international markets in the US, Europe and Japan. Skin Deep was sold to broadcasters such as Oxygen, TV Norge and Japan TV.
Marilyn is currently in development on two feature films “Or Best Offer” for Chum Television and The Harold Greenberg Fund and the coming of age film “Bannock and Bratwurst”. Other television shows she is developing includes the youth series “Double Trouble” that she is producing with Hungry Eyes Film & Television and has received support from Telefilm and NSI Totally TV. She is also developing a 13 x 1/2 hour lifestyle series entitled ‘Whose Taste Better" and two one-hour documentaries, “In Search of Marley’s Legacy” with Scarlett Media Inc. and “The Road to 2012”. Marilyn is Co-Producer on a four-hour miniseries for CBC called Guns that is currently in post production.
For over 30 years Vladimir has been putting his philosophy to work in his film and video assignments. His life behind the camera has taken him across Canada and throughout the world. Vladimir’s reputation as a filmmaker is the direct result of his complete and total immersion in the projects he’s involved in, contributing to all aspects of the production. As the original founder of Prisma-Light Ltd. (1982) and now Storm Film and Video, (1995) Vladimir has directed and / or filmed many memorable projects.
Demanding locations, sensitive subject matter and adverse conditions are Vladimir’s Forte. From boardrooms to back roads he remains a team player. Major Canadian and international corporations, community groups, government agencies and broadcast networks, have commissioned his work.