COMPANY PROFILE


Launched in February of 2002, by Michael McNamara and Judy Holm, Markham Street Films Inc. makes film and video projects for theatrical, broadcast and educational exhibition. With over twenty years’ experience in the television industry, Michael McNamara has an impressive list of credits as a creative producer, director and writer of documentaries, comedy, variety and children’s programs. McNamara has won two Gemini Awards and been nominated five times. Judy Holm has won one Gemini and has over fifteen years experience in feature films. The pair originally collaborated on WRINKLE on which Holm was the co-writer, associate producer and narrator. McNamara co-produced, directed and co-wrote the film, which aired on CBC Newsworld’s Rough Cuts in January 2001. McNamara received a Gemini nomination for directing. WRINKLE has since been sold around the world, including the US and the UK.

Over 2002 and 2003, through Markham Street Films Inc., Michael McNamara and Judy Holm increased the production slate of both television and feature film projects, building on the strengths of the partners. Their first film, RADIO REVOLUTION: The Rise and Fall of The Big 8 (History Television, 2003), won the 2004 Gemini Award for Best History Documentary Program or Series. In 2005, MSF delivered PENIS DEMENTIA: The Search for the Perfect Penis, an amusing, irreverent and insightful hunt for the seminal answers to penetrating questions with help from doctors, sex experts, and actual penis users, and STACKED LIKE ME: Walk a Mile in My Double-D’s, about a diverse group of women who share how they deal with their self image and others’ responses to their pneumatic pulchritude, both for Life Network, Discovery Health, Canal Vie and SBS Australia, as well as the 9x30min HD series SHRINES & HOMEMADE HOLY PLACES for Vision TV. McNamara received a Gemini nomination for Best Direction in a Documentary series for Episode one of Shrines, and the series got an Honourable Mention at the 2006 Chris Awards. In 2004 MSF delivered FLATLY STACKED, a look at the significance of being less than well endowed in our breast-obsessed world, for TVO and The Documentary Channel. FLATLY has sold across Europe and the Far East and is the third of MSF’s provocative but amusing investigations of misunderstood body parts. Also in 2004 came MEET THE SUMDEES, a P.O.V. exploration of a cross-cultural marriage for Vision TV. In 2003, along with RADIO REVOLUTION, MSF delivered GENUINE ARTICLE: The First Trial, with writer/director David Bezmozgis, for The Documentary Channel and W Network. In 2002 MSF co-produced HEARING VOICES: The Lives & Times of Rich Little for the CBC.

Most recently, MSF produced 100 FILMS & A FUNERAL for The Documentary Channel, Sundance Channel and AVRO. Looking at the rise and fall of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, the film is a rousing and humourous look behind the scenes of this company that, though short-lived, managed to make such films as Four Weddings & A Funeral, Fargo, Dead Man Walking and Notting Hill. The film also examines the business of the film industries in Europe and North America and the corporate machinations that control the strings of all film studios. MSF will also produce Season Two of SHRINES & HOMEMADE HOLY PLACES for Vision TV and develop ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT: Excursions Through the World After Dark, based on the Governor General's Award finalist book of the same name by Christopher Dewdney.

On the feature film front, Markham Street Films Inc. is producing the feature film VICTORIA DAY with writer/director David Bezmozgis, and developing and writing THE RETURN OF THE FABULOUS SEVEN.

Other Production credits include: THE COCKROACH THAT ATE CINCINNATI — the critically acclaimed indie feature and an official selection of the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, as well as many other festivals around the world. The star of the film, Alan Williams, was nominated for a Best Actor Genie. JOHN SCOTT: Art & Justice – a documentary on the life of a notorious Canadian artist was an official selection of the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, the Cork Ireland Film Festival and was nominated as Best Short Documentary at the 1999 Hot Docs Film Festival.
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Markham Street Films Inc.
720 Bathurst Street, Suite 300   Toronto, Ontario, Canada   M5S 2R4

Tel. 416-536-1390  Fax: 416.536.7986 info@markhamstreet.com