Alex Ordanis (CAN)
Producer
Scythia Films

Alex Ordanis is a Toronto based producer working in narrative features and documentary with his company Stellar Citizens working in partnership with Dan Bekerman of Scythia Films managing a co-development slate for original feature, TV and documentary projects.

Scythia Films

Daniel Bekerman, founder and president of Scythia Films, is one of Canada’s most prolific feature film producers, with broad experience in creative producing, financing, international co-productions and service productions having completed over 25 films in the last 5 years.

Selected credits include The Witch, winner of the Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as two Independent Spirit Awards and feature Bang Bang Baby, directed by Cannes Residency alumnus Jeffrey St. Jules, winner of the Best First Feature Film Award at TIFF and the Canadian Screen Awards.

Slated for 2020 releases are Falling, directed by Viggo Mortensen, with its World Premiere at Sundance, and Percy, starring Christopher Walken, Slash/Back, an arctic set sci-fi adventure by Nyla Innuksuk, with Sierra Affinity attached for international sales, and Come to Daddy, starring Elijah Wood, a New Zealand/Ireland/Canada Treaty Co-Production premiered at Tribeca in April.

Daniel Executive Produced The Craft, (Sony/Blumhouse), directed by Zoe Lister Jones, Ready or Not (Fox Searchlight Pictures/Vinson Films) directed by ‘Radio Silence’ which premiered in July at Montréal’s renowned Fantasia Film Festival as well as How It Ends and Anon for Netflix.

Currently touring the festival circuit is feature documentary Youth Unstoppable, which captures the vibrant untold story of the Global Youth Climate Movement over the last eleven years, culminating in the rise of Greta Thunberg and Kayak to Klemtu which received the Audience Choice Award at ImagiNATIVE film festival in 2017.


 

What we work with

Area of work
Co-productions, Equity Investment, Production

Genres
Factual Entertainment, Human Interest, Indigenous

Lengths/Formats
Series, Short film, Feature

Successes/Commissions
Past titles include Come to Daddy starring Elijah Wood (2019), Claude Lanzman: Spectres of the Shoah [2016] (88th Academy Awards Nominated Short Subject Documentary) and forthcoming action / sci-fi feature shot entirely in the Canadian high arctic, Slash Back directed by Nyla Innuksuk in post now, set to be completed summer 2020.