Company Profile
Sepia Films is a feature film production company specializing in international co-production, with a mandate to make quality, commercially viable feature films for the global marketplace. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Sepia focuses on telling great stories in unique ways and in a variety of genres to make movies that resonate with audiences both domestically and abroad. Sepia’s focus is on feature film production; however principals Tina Pehme, Kim Roberts and Vic Sarin have been involved in executive producing, producing and consulting on a variety of genres internationally, from theatrical documentaries and television movies to mini series and episodic television.
Since 2003 Sepia partners Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts have produced such diverse theatrical fare as this year’s magical family drama A Shine Of Rainbows, starring Connie Nielsen and Aidan Quinn, a co-production with Ireland’s Octagon Films that won the Audience Choice Award at the Ibiza International Film Festival and had its North American premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, and continued its festival run as the Opening Gala presentation of the Vancouver International Film Festival, followed by the BFI London Film Festival, the Heartland Truly Moving Pictures Film Festival where it took home the Audience Award, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival where it won the 1st prize- Children’s Jury Award, the Belfast Cinemagic Film Festival where it won the Children’s Jury Award for Best Feature Film and the Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival in Poland where it received Special Mention by the Children’s Jury for Best Feature Film. It also won the Audience Award at the Ibiza International Film Festival and was awarded the National Dove Seal of Approval in the US. A Shine of Rainbows has recently been awarded the prestigious Truly Moving Picture Award in the US and comes out in theatres across North America in April 2010.
Pehme and Roberts have also produced such feature films as Partition (2007), an epic love story set against the Partition of India in 1947, starring Jimi Mistry, Neve Campbell, Kristen Kreuk and Irrfan Khan. Partition was honoured as special presentation by the Smithsonian and took home both Best Film and the People’s Choice Award at the Barbados International Film Festival 200, and was released by Seville Pictures Canada and Myriad Pictures ROW; Civic Duty (2006), a critically acclaimed psychological thriller starring Peter Krause and Richard Schiff which premiered at the 2006 Tribeca International Film Festival, released in 2007 through Freestyle Releasing, FOX and Netflix; and Deluxe Combo Platter (2004) a romantic comedy with a twist starring Marla Sokoloff, Jennifer Tilly and Barry Watson, released through Screen Media and Equnioxe Films. Sepia has recently completed production on the feature music documentary And The Beat Goes On…Ibiza (2009) a Canada-UK co-production that takes an insiders look at the evolution of the superstar DJ featuring David Guetta, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Tenaglia, DJ Alfredo and Pete Tong.
Pehme and Roberts also established sister company Honalee Productions to handle their growing development slate and to facilitate post-production in house. Honalee now has the ability to offer visual effects, color correction and full video edit facilities to take a film to film-out ready in house offering considerable savings and enhanced quality control on Sepia and Sepia partner projects.
Sepia’s feature film slate for 2010 - 2011 includes the rock ‘n roll drama The James Dean Garage Band to be produced with T-Bone Burnett and Spice Factory, based on the short story by Rick Moody, to be directed by David S. Ward and written by RJ Ward and David S. Ward with music by T-Bone Burnett; Eclipse, a high concept science fiction thriller written by Edgar Martin and being produced together with Spice Factory and Arsenal Pictures, Jawbone, a supernatural horror written by Larry Koch, Joey Aresco and Eric Styles, to be directed by Eric Styles, and Vic Sarin's Jack of Diamonds, an epic adventure set in the cut-throat diamond industry of 1940’s Africa, based on the true story of Canadian maverick geologist Jack Williamson. The script, currently being penned by Vic Sarin and Dennis Foon, is a co-production with Force Four Films and is being developed in conjunction with Telefilm Canada, Movie Central and BC Film. Sepia also has several television projects in development and is currently in pre-production on the Vic Sarin directed feature documentary, Hue in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada.
Sepia Films is dedicated to producing a diverse range of quality entertainment for today’s marketplace and to collaborating with like-minded international and domestic partners and to bring great stories to the screen.
