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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 9-11 thriller starring Peter Krause and Richard Schiff, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Produced together with Landslide Pictures and directed by Sundance Grand Jury nominee Jeff Renfroe, Civic Duty is distributed in the US by Freestyle Releasing and Fox with international sales handled by CAA, Intandem & Turtle's Crossing. In 2005 SEPIA produced the romantic comedy Deluxe Combo Platter starring Jennifer Tilly, Dave Thomas and Marla Sokoloff, distributed in Canada by Equinoxe Films and Screen Media and in the US by Freestyle Releasing / Turtle's Crossing.

SEPIA is currently in pre-production on A Shine of Rainbows, a magical family feature, based on the beloved novel by Lillian Beckwith, to be shot in Ireland in April and May of 2008, funded by Telefilm Canada, Seville Pictures 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 current focus is 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 2008 / 2009 feature film slate includes Anonymous, an adrenaline-charged identity theft thriller, in partnership with Spice Factory & Velvet Octopus UK; the rock n' roll drama The James Dean Garage Band, written and to be directed by David Ward (The Sting) based on the short story by Rick Moody; The Possibility of Fireflies, a poignant coming of age story set against the music and counter culture of the 1980's, being produced together with Laura Rister and Tatiana Kelly, and executive produced by Patty Jenkins, to be directed by Dominique Paul based on her novel of the same name, starring Famke Janssen; 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.