Manitoba-based Eagle Vision, which is celebrating 25 years of content creation, is launching two new sister ventures, including a business affairs service company and new content brand.
Founded by Lisa Meeches in 2000, Eagle Vision’s body of work includes Oscar-winning feature film Capote, factual series Ice Road Truckers (History/AETV International), and drama series Burden of Truth and Skymed, among over 260 hours of content. Their latest feature, Deaner ’89, was nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards.
Featured on a panel at the Banff World Media Festival entitled “Working with Eagle Vision: 25 Groundbreaking Years, Just Getting Started,” the team revealed the company’s plans for the future.
Good Faith, to be run by longtime Eagle Vision partner and executive producer Kyle Irving, along with business affairs executive and producer Hannah Johnson, will help support creatives with contracting, legal and business affairs needs, responding to a need in the marketplace.
“We decided to launch a new business affairs company that leans into our industry-leading business affairs experience, we plan to offer a variety of services depending on the needs of the producer/project. We can bring a level of experience that provides broadcasters, funders and banks with a level of comfort they require,” said Irving. “Beyond Executive Producer services, we can tailor an à la carte business affairs package that can include (or not) funding application oversight and maintenance, broadcast licence agreement negotiations, creating financing plans and tax credit modelling, advising on labour relations and the negotiation of labour variances, advising on banking agreements and cash flows, among other things including, generally taking care of the shit many creative producers don’t want to do, or know how to do in reliable, effective ways.”
Live From Winnipeg is a new content company that promises to feature a diverse slate of comedy, drama, unscripted and narrative programming. It will be helmed by veteran producer, writer and director Rebecca Gibson. Along with Head of Development Maxine Bruce, upcoming projects include adapting Maureen Jennings’ (Murdoch Mysteries, Bomb Girls) Paradise Café Mysteries book series. They’re also in early-stage development on a contemporary procedural television series based on the books and seeking broadcast partners, in addition to developing factual series Museum Mysteries.
“For the past twenty-five years, Eagle Vision has built not only a strong catalogue of content, we’ve built relationships, and an in-house talent pool with a lot of creative energy. This new slate of companies encompasses a wide yet focused range of goals based on who we are today and where we are going. We’re going to leverage what we’ve built as a group of companies and the relationships and reputation we have established to ensure an exciting future,” said Meeches. “Storytelling is medicine, first and foremost we are storytellers, now and into the future with Eagle Vision, we want to create space for people to grow and thrive so that is what Kyle, Rebecca and Hannah are continuing to do with Good Faith and Live From Winnipeg.”
Additionally, Dinae Robinson has been promoted to Head of Content at Eagle Vision where she will oversee all Indigenous-led projects, while also developing her own creative projects. She’ll also continue to contribute to Eagle Vision shows as a writer, director, producer, series creator, and showrunner.
The new sister companies joins Eagle Vision’s already established production company, its distribution company Migizi Distribution, and Talon Production Services – the largest props and production services house between Toronto and Vancouver.
