Working primarily in documentary and interactive media, his work has screened at the Berlinale, TIFF, Rotterdam, SXSW, Hot Docs, and the MoMA in New York. Recent projects include the CSA and Banff-nominated doc series / format, Farm Crime (CBC), short-form anthology, Brand Canada (CBC), and acclaimed mystery doc, The Missing Tourist (CBC POV). Previously, as a principal at FilmCAN, Geoff co-created the multiplatform documentary project, The National Parks Project. He won a Genie Award for producing Zacharias Kunuk’s short doc, Sirmilik, and a Gemini Award for producing and co-creating the National Parks Project doc series for the Discovery Channel. He was also a creator of the Banff Award-winning cross-platform doc, Northwords. Geoff has been very active in the Canadian new media and documentary industry, sitting on the digital media jury for the Canadian Screen Awards, teaching workshops at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, and as a mentor for the DOC “Breakthrough” program.

Big Cedar Films

Big Cedar Films is a film, television & new media company focused on creating elevated video and interactive work for all platforms.

What we work with

Area
Acquisitions, Commissions, Co-productions, Distribution, Equity Investment, Festival Programming, Grants/Funding, International Sales, Pre-sales, Production 

Genre
Arts, Crime, Culture, Current Affairs & Investigative, Environment, Human Interest, Music, Natural History and Wildlife, Social Justice, Sport, Travel & Adventure 

Lengths/Formats
Series, Single/One-off, Short film, Feature, Specials, Format, 30’, 52’/60’, 70+ mins, Online, Multiplatform, Interactive

Looking to meet at AIDC
Looking to meet likeminded producers and creatives interested in new and traditional forms of documentary, and non-fiction storytelling.

Recent Successes/Commissions

No Visible Trauma (2020), 90min / 44min Documentary, CBC)

The Queen Versus Godfred (2020), Interactive Visual Podcast; POV Spark, Bell Fund, NFB

Farm Crime S1 (2018), 6 x 15min Doc Series; CBC Gem

Brand Canada (2017), 10 x various / 39min, Doc Anthology; CBC

The Missing Tourist (2017), 52min / 44min Documentary; CBC

Northwords (2012), 50min Documentary / Interactive;

Knowledge Network / CBC Doc Channel

The National Parks Project (2011), 13 x 30min Doc Series / 13 x various Short Films, 128min Omnibus / Interactive; Discovery Channel