EyeSteelFilm
EyeSteelFilm is a Montreal-based Canadian cinema production company co-founded by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin, dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic expression. Today the studio is run by Co-Presidents Mila Aung-Thwin and Bob Moore.
Notable collective members
- Daniel Cross - producer and director
- Mila Aung-Thwin - producer and director
- Bob Moore - producer
- Laura Bari - director
- Yung Chang - director
- Karina Garcia Casanova - director
- Eric "Roach" Denis - director
- Mia Donovan - director
- Lixin Fan - director
- Omar Majeed - director
- Peter Wintonick - director
- Ryan Mullins - director
Films
Date | Film | Director | Notes |
1997 | ' | Daniel Cross | |
2001 | Too Colourful for the League | Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin | |
2001 | ' | Daniel Cross | |
2001 | Music for a Blue Train | Mila Aung-Thwin | |
2002 | Bone | Mila Aung-Thwin | |
2003 | RoachTrip | Eric "Roach" Denis | |
2004 | ' | Daniel Cross, Mila Aung-Thwin, Brett Gaylor and the students of Inukjuak - Innalik School | |
2005 | Chairman George | Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin | |
2006 | Punk the Vote! | Eric "Roach" Denis | Punk le vote! |
2007 | Up the Yangtze | Yung Chang | |
2008 | ' | Brett Gaylor | |
2008 | Antoine | Laura Bari | |
2009 | Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam | Omar Majeed | |
2009 | Last Train Home | Lixin Fan | aka Guītú Lièchē / Gui tu lie che |
2011 | The Vanishing Spring Light | Xun Yu | |
2011 | Inside Lara Roxx | Mia Donovan | |
2011 | Fortunate Son | Tony Asimakopoulos | |
2011 | The Frog Princes | Ryan Mullins and Omar Majeed | |
2012 | China Heavyweight | Yung Chang | Chinese 千錘百煉 |
2012 | The Fruit Hunters | Yung Chang | |
2015 | I Am the Blues | Daniel Cross | |
2017 | Let There Be Light | Mila Aung-Thwin and Van Royko | |
2018 | Anote's Ark | Matthieu Rytz |
;Short films
Date | Film | Director | Notes |
2007 | The Colony | Jeff Barnaby | Short film |
2008 | Ali Shan | Yung Chang | Short film |
Films presently in progress include:
- Rainforest: The Limit of Spleandor, Inkulal, Inventing the Future, Jingle Bell Rocks!, Just A Click Away, Les Tickets, Mokhtar, Such Great Heights, Turcot
Recognition
- EyeSteelFilm is a RealScreen magazine Global 100 Company.
- Montreal Mirror arts weekly chose the firm as one of the "Noisemaker"s of 2007.
- EyeSteelFilm founder and president was one of five MIPDOC Trailblazers of 2008.