ABOUT
Six Island Productions creates internationally acclaimed, diverse-voice features, series, and documentaries for the global market. Founded by producer Paul Scherzer (ACE, CMPA, Canadian Academy), Six Island is a champion of meaningful international co-production.
For over two decades, we’ve worked with award-winning global talent including Oscar-nominated Kaouther Ben Hania, LGBTQ icon Bruce LaBruce, famed documentarian Jennifer Baichwal, and Peabody-winning Noura Kevorkian, helping them realize distinct, compelling visions. Our work has screened at top festivals including Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, Venice, Busan, Sundance, and Hot Docs, winning awards and earning international sales.
Six Island collaborates with leading partners including ARTE, Telefilm, Playtime, SWR-HR, Gunpowder & Sky, Beta Cinema, Tribeca Film Institute, The National Film Board of Canada and The Doha Film Institute, to name but a few.
Our storytelling defies easy categories whether hybrid drama-docs, politically urgent features, or cinematic television, featuring voices that challenge the mainstream. Six Island projects resonate across borders, audiences, and platforms.
Paul Scherzer – producer
Having spent years overseas in Scotland, Spain, Japan and Australia, Toronto-based producer Paul Scherzer is naturally drawn to diverse voices and international co-productions. Since 2000, Paul’s company Six Island Productions has produced award-winning dramatic features, documentaries, TV series and digital media projects playing festivals from Toronto to Cannes, Berlin to Busan and selling into all markets.
Prior to forming Six Island, Paul worked for Telefilm and the National Film Board of Canada. He is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, a TIFF STUDIO alumnus, and a member of the Canadian Media Producers Association, the Canadian Academy, and the European producers organization ACE.
Noura Kevorkian – writer/director/producer
Peabody-winning Lebanese-Syrian-Armenian Noura Kevorkian made her debut with the award-winning VEILS UNCOVERED (Competition IDFA), followed by historical feature ANJAR (MED Rome), and the drama-doc hybrid feature 23 KILOMETRES (Competition Karlovy Vary). Kevorkian’s latest Oscar-qualifying feature doc BATATA (Peabody Award, Audience Award Hot Docs, Best Feature Carthage, Amnesty Award Durban) follows an unparalleled 10 years in the life of a Syrian refugee woman and her family.
Concurrently Noura is working on the development of her debut feature drama, SYRIAN DANCER, the story of two teenagers who find love against all odds, along with the screen adaptation of the award-winning non-fiction book The Taste of Longing about a neurodivergent WWII Canadian war hero named Ethel Mulvany.
SIX ISLAND PRODUCTIONS inc.
106 Barton Ave.
Toronto ON M6G 1P9
Canada