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SEPIA FILMS is a Canadian production company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with affiliates in Los Angeles, California whose focus is to make engaging, entertaining films for the international market. SEPIA’S diverse slate focuses on films that tell great stories in unique ways that will resonate with audiences.


SEPIA'S recent theatrical releases include Partition (2007), an epic love story set in India at the end of the British Raj, starring Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, Neve Campbell, Irfan Khan and Madhur Jaffrey, shot in Canada, India and the UK and written and directed by award winning director and cinematographer Vic Sarin. Partition was recently honored as a special presentation of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC and opens in the UK and US in spring 2008.  Partition is distributed and represented by Seville Pictures in Canada, Soda Pictures in the UK, and Myriad Pictures internationally. In 2006 SEPIA produced Civic Duty, a post-911 thriller starring Peter Krause and Richard Schiff, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.  Civic Duty was produced together with Landslide Pictures and directed by Sundance Grand Jury nominee Jeff Renfroe with US distribution by Freestyle Releasing and Fox and international sales by Intandem, CAA & Turtle's Crossing. In 2005 SEPIA produced the romantic comedy Deluxe Combo Platter, starring Jennifer Tilly, Dave Thomas and Marla Sokoloff, distributed by Equinoxe Films and Screen Media.

SEPIA is currently in post-production on the Canada-Ireland coproduction A Shine of Rainbows, a magical family feature film, based on the beloved novel by Lillian Beckwith, starring Connie Nielsen and Aidan Quinn.   A Shine Of Rainbows was funded by Telefilm Canada, the Irish Film Board and the Corus Family Feature, Shaw Rocket and Harold Greenberg Funds, with Canadian distribution and international sales by Seville Pictures. 

Also currently in production is the theatrical music documentary And the Beat Goes On... a dynamic insiders’ look at the evolution of the house music scene, starring Jimi Mistry.

SEPIA'S recent focus has been on feature film production; however, the company's principals have also produced and consulted on a variety of genres internationally, from theatrical documentaries, television movies, mini series and episodic television, both drama and documentary.

Sepia’s 2009 feature film slate includes the rock and roll drama The James Dean Garage Band, written and to be directed by David S. Ward (The Sting), based on the short story by Rick Moody; Jack of Diamonds, an epic adventure set against the 1940’s diamond industry in partnership with Force Four Films (Human Cargo); Jawbone, a bone chilling super-natural horror/thriller; and Spinning Chelsea, a romantic comedy about the rise, fall and redemption of an American teen pop star and a Brazilian capoeira dancer set against the fickle world of fame, spin and the celebrity-making machine