Workshop: How to Share Your Film

Award winning Writer/Director Terrance Odette began his career producing and directing music TV series & specials, including over 130 music videos. He’s written & directed 4 feature films to date, with critical acclaim (Variety, Village Voice, MacLean’s, Globe & Mail), numerous awards & nominations with screenings at Sundance, Berlin, TIFF, VIFF, BFI London. Odette has a number of feature scripts in development, Two documentary’s, “Festa”, and “Unimaginable” in post-production and a supernatural revenge feature, “Stress”, going to camera this November.

Paul Zimic began his work in the movie business at the age of 14 working as an usher in his hometown movie theatre. He graduated university took a job in Toronto as a media buyer for film distributor, Twentieth Century Fox. Over the next 10 years, Paul enriched his passion for movies in the sales and marketing departments of Alliance Independent Films, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Playback, CBC and Juice Worldwide. 

Born with a sense of adventure, Paul formed Grindstone Media, where he distributed many films and co-created and produced TV projects and produced feature films including: THE BABY FORMULA (2008), GRIM SWEEPERS (2010), DOWNTIME WITH BIZNASTY (2011) and the feature documentaries NEVER ENOUGH (2014) and THE WOMAN WHO LOVES GIRAFFES (2018). In 2020, Paul relaunched Grindstone as Battlejoy with a focus on production and marketing. Along with developing a scripted project based THE WOMAN WHO LOVES GIRAFFES, Paul is dedicated to helping establish the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation to promote the protection and conservation of wildlife and their biodiverse environment. Paul enjoys motorcycle maintenance, combat sports and still plays pick-up hockey. His wife Lesley and their three kids live a healthy lifestyle in the fresh air outside of the city with their dog and cat and maybe chickens, we’ll see.