Submission Films was created in 2004 to develop, finance and market commercially viable, independent feature films with a focus on emerging talent.
Production credits for Submission Films include Pink Ludoos, an Indo-Canadian romantic comedy which has played to audience acclaim at numerous Asian festivals in North America and abroad, and Severed, an eco-horror film described by Variety magazine as “pushing the zombie movie in a direction even George Romero would envy.” The film has sold in territories throughout the world since its debut at the Marché du Film at Cannes 2005.
Projects currently in development include Normal, a drama directed by festival favorite Carl Bessai; Stay, a Canada-Ireland co-production by writer/director Wiebke von Carolsfeld adapted from the novel published by Raincoast Books; Bardo, a psycological thriller by writer/director Gaurav Seth based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Young Love, an adaptation of highly acclaimed short stories by Vancouver author Nancy Lee. The projects have been invited to various co-production markets including IFP No Borders, Cinemart and the Berlinale Coproduction Market.
Company president Andrew Boutilier is the former Director of Development for Vancouver based Brightlight Pictures, where he managed and developed a slate of over a dozen feature film and television projects since the inception of the company in 2001. During his tenure, he was actively involved in a variety of produced feature film and television projects including Going the Distance distributed by Odeon Films, the series Alienated for Space: The Imagination Station and Mob Princess for Corus.
Submission Films is based in Vancouver, Canada.