In Development
Urania
A feature film based on the book “Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women”
 At the height of his fame, Charles Dickens masterminded a radical social experiment lasting twelve years – one of the greatest preoccupations of his life and yet virtually unknown until now. Based on the recent book, Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women, our film will reveal a vital but unknown chapter in the life of one of the world’s most beloved authors. This feature will delve deeply into the dramatic and moving relationship between women who wanted to escape their miserable lives and Dickens, the famous author who knew their secrets.
Matter of Fact Media in co-production with Tryptich Media in Toronto and with Origin Pictures and Rainmark Pictures in the UK.
Producers:
Vanessa Dylyn (Matter of Fact Media)
Anna Stratton (Tryptich Media)
David Thompson (Origin Pictures, UK)
Tracey Scoffield (Rainmark Pictures, UK)
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The Mystery of San Nicandro
A feature–length documentary in development with CBC’s Documentary Channel
 Today, something is stirring in Southern Italy that will reverberate throughout the world. This film will document the strange revival of Judaism in the most Catholic country in the world and how North American influence is stoking these flames. This mysterious thread running through the vibrant Italian tapestry will highlight the deep meaning of history, culture, belonging, and identity in the seemingly rootless western world.
Producer: Vanessa Dylyn
Director: Roger Pyke
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Science of Sainthood
How the Vatican uses medical science to determine who will become a Saint.
 The Science of Sainthood presents astounding stories of the science behind the saint-making process in current campaigns for Sainthood - campaigns that include candidates such as first aboriginal saint Kateri Tekakwitha and Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
The series also reveals the medical science behind recent canonizations such as the newly canonized Brother André, Montreal’s miracle man, and Marguerite d’Youville, of Quebec.
Inspired by Dr. Jacalyn Duffin’s recent book, Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints and Healing in the Modern World, we bring to life intimate accounts of spontaneous healings, and how skeptical clergy and medical professionals have worked together to separate the miraculous recoveries from the merely fortunate.
With unusual access to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints and its top medical investigators, this series opens a window into a fascinating process that has remained largely secretive for hundreds of years...until now.
Producer: Vanessa Dylyn
Writer/Director: Harvey Crossland
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Mr. & Mrs. P.I.
Matter of Fact Media is pleased to announce the development of an exciting factual series for television, in association with Star Quality Investigations.
 MR. & MRS. P.I. is a docu-series that follows the remarkable team of Adrianne Fekete-Romanick and her husband, Matthew Romanick, as they investigate unbelievable domestic cases of infidelity, child custody, hidden assets, secret addictions and more…
This series uncovers not only the colourful world of private investigation, but follows the lives of Adrianne and Matthew through their action-packed professional and private lives.
Adrianne Fekete is the Director of Star Quality Investigations and is widely recognized in the Film and Entertainment Industry across North America. She has over 20 years experience providing personal security to Hollywood elites, including the Rolling Stones and Samuel L. Jackson.
Matthew Romanick is the President of Star Quality Investigations and brings 15 years of accredited investigative and security experience to his position. Matthew spent a decade working with the Peel Regional Police and is the recipient of several police commendations. He has managed and conducted numerous criminal investigations throughout his career.
Producers:
Vanessa Dylyn and Brian Cotter for Matter of Fact Media
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Completed Projects
The Musical Brain
With appearances by Sting, Feist, Michael Buble and Wyclef Jean.
Gemini Award-Winning film
Press Release
 Whether you load your iPod with Mozart or Sting, savour opera or groove to jazz, music plays a profound role in your life. No matter how old you are, or where you live on the planet –your brain is having a love affair with music.
And yet until now, no one understood why music has such a powerful impact on us. Thanks to revolutionary neuroscience, the answers to the mystery of music are at last becoming clear.
In a stunning new documentary, THE MUSICAL BRAIN, Sting puts himself – and his brain under the microscope of neuroscience and discovers how and why he makes music. While on tour, Sting visited McGill University’s Daniel Levitin, best-selling author of This is Your Brain on Music and had his brain scanned as music experiments were conducted. The results of those scans will literally show the creative process as it unfolds in the brain of one of the world’s best musicians – and his response to seeing his own brain at work.
Sting’s fMRI scans and his in-depth interview about his relationship with music is just part of the story when it comes to understanding how music impacts our brains, our hearts and our lives. And it is that story which
THE MUSICAL BRAIN will explore – with Sting’s experience as a musician leading the way.
Fascinating and fun, THE MUSICAL BRAIN will take the viewer to unexpected places – a rare juncture of science, music and mystery – and to a deeper understanding of how the everyday pleasures of music define us more than we realize.
Produced in association with CTV, National Geographic International, Bell Benefits Fund, Rogers Documentary Fund and Canadian Tax Credits programs.
Credits:
Producer: Vanessa Dylyn
Writer/Director: Christina Pochmursky
Editor: Michael Pike
Demo (requires password)
Press Release
Distribution (CANADA):
Carla Bruce
Filmoption International Inc.
carla@filmoption.com
TEL.: 514-931-6180 ext.: 257 |
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Fixing My Brain: 1 hour HD Documentary
Are we stuck with the brains that we’re born with? – or is the brain really like a highly intelligent muscle, able to change itself through rigorous and specific exercises no matter how old we are?
FIXING MY BRAIN is a documentary which explores the mysteries of how we learn through the dramatic story of Barbara Arrowsmith and the journey of three courageous students in their first year in her “brain bootcamp” school.
FIXING MY BRAIN challenges our preconceptions of who we are, how we learn, and how we teach our children. This a film that opens up the exhilarating possibility that we truly can change our destiny by learning how to change the pathways of our brain.
Produced in Association with CBC Newsworld, Knowledge
Network, Rogers Documentary Fund, Canadian Independent Film
and Video Fund, Canadian Television Fund.
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International Distribution:
Muriel Rosilio
Filmoption International Inc.
905-916-4000
muriel@.filmoption.com
Home Video Sales:
Carla Bruce
Filmoption International Inc.
carla@filmoption.com
TEL.: 514-931-6180 ext.: 257 |
Exotic Lives: 2 x 1 hr. HD Documentary Series
Do you want to own a vineyard in Argentina? Run a coffee plantation in Panama? Live on a yacht tax-free? Buy a castle in Budapest? Find a deserted island? Get free of big brother? Open Bread & Breakfast in the Czech Republic?
EXOTIC LIVES is a travel/escape series which explores how ordinary people became fascinating people by rejecting the rat race of modern life and carving a new destiny in far-flung places.
Some of them went looking for romance or a "meaningful" life. Some of them wanted to escape the past or find a new future and fresh adventures. All of them found the courage to re-invent themselves and shed old habits and their fear of change by plunging into different cultures and forging a brand new path in life.
Produced in association with CTV’s Travel and Escape and Discovery HD Canada
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International Distribution:
Muriel Rosilio
Filmoption International Inc.
905-916-4000
muriel@.filmoption.com
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Made in Canada: The Italian Way: 1-hour documentary
Enter the fascinating world of three Italo-Canadian business empires; listen to the stories of their early struggles to make it in the New World. Watch how they solve conflicts within a family business. Learn about their inspiring secrets of success and how they plan to transfer power to the next generation.
Produced in association with Omni Television.
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Sales Information:
Contact: Vanessa Dylyn
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