Massey Productions Ltd.

Massey Productions makes all kinds of films, television and cable product but what drives us forward is director-driven material and storytellers. In order to make the films we really want, we collaborate a lot with other companies, sometimes for the art of it, sometimes to spread the financial cost of the art and other times purely for revenue reasons. We work closely with writers to ensure scripts stand out for the standard of writing but also for originality and for a purpose. Great films don’t happen by accident.

It may be challenging for co-productions to serve completely different domestic markets but the framework is a perfect solution for a market like Canada, which cannot often provide 100% of a feature film’s financing. So we are well versed in co-productions and use the considerable support of our federal agencies when pursuing foreign partnerships.

Massey Productions has recently begun sales work in select territories and will increasingly diversify in coming years. We are a small company with a good foundation and some valuable creative and financial expertise.

Learn more about our history.

Slate


THE PARIS QUINTET	WINNERS & LOSERS	WOMAN WITH A FISH
Five idiosyncratic romantics set out to make Paris theirs and the plans blow up when they simultaneously fall for the luminous but not so romantic Lucie. A Canada-France co-production with Vestapol, starring Fanny Sidney.	Based on the hugely successful play, Mina Shum is writing the screenplay with Marcus Youssef and James Long. Mina will direct and Massey is exec producing.	In an inspired bid to save her missing father’s sport fishing show, a German life coach sets off for the Yukon to film the elusive giant Northern Pike, herself becoming the fisch out of water.

BEFORE US	48 MONTHS	GAME BONE
Fresh out of law school, a young Japanese-American is morally bound to challenge the Supreme Court to strike down the decades-old conviction of Gordon Hirabayashi, charged for defying internment of Americans of Japanese descent during WWII. Based on true events.	A no-holds-barred custody battle erupts when a fertilized embryo in a fertility clinic is the only chance for two argumentative sets of grandparents to continue their family lines.	A champion game bone player seeks redemption, a bit of justice and a way back into his community after his rival’s deception destroys him and sends him to jail. Set in Carcross, Yukon. Written and to be directed by Gordon Loverin. A Wolf Spirit Production.

Past Projects


MEDITATION PARK	IRON ROAD	LONG LIFE, HAPPINESS & PROSPERITY	THE PAPAL CHASE	BURIAL SOCIETY


SPIRIT BEAR	BLACK POINT	SUSPICIOUS RIVER	MY FATHER’S ANGEL	TOUCHED


PITCH	LIVES OF GIRLS & WOMEN	WHALE MUSIC	IMPOLITE	THE TRAVELLER

Services

A natural byproduct of decades of developing, packaging, producing and delivering independent films is expertise in many areas that are of value to other content creators, networks, studios and occasionally these are opportunities to work with a great director and actors. Staying a small company means developing broad knowledge of the regulatory and legal aspects of the business and all of this is useful to younger companies and foreign companies unfamiliar with work in Canada and in our case, with China, France and the UK. We tend to be a trustworthy team that hates to waste money- another valuable trait with service work. And we work with the basic goals of keeping clients alive, out of jail and really happy with their footage. A wide range of production budgets, genres, schedules have been handled by our company.

Learn more about shooting in BC and Canada.

Selected projects from our Asian partners:


WINGS OVER EVEREST (2019)	EXPLORATION OF THE WORLD 前往世界的尽头 (2015)	PHANTOM (2015)	ICE WINE 冰酒窝 (2014)	MARRIED BUT AVAILABLE 婚姻时差 (2014)


THE TORTURE (2010)	PERSONAL EFFECTS (2009)	KICKIN’ IT OLD SKOOL (2007)	GRAY MATTERS (2006)	THE CHRISTMAS CONSULTANT (2012)

Sales

Massey Productions dipped its toe in the sales field in 2017 when it represented Mina Shum’s MEDITATION PARK for the territories of China, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. China is a fast-evolving and rapidly growing market presenting clear opportunities but with quite specific domestic tastes and a strong approvals process for titles shown commercially. This is a natural adjunct to our own work with the Chinese market but for select titles we are confident we can help to make sales in the region.

Company


Raymond Hart Massey	Lynne Lee
President & Producer	Head of Marketing

Nadia Hatta	Peter Bien
Head of Development	Head of Business Development, Asia