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Jamie Brown

Jamie Brown is the owner, CEO and Executive Producer of Frantic Film. Jamie has produced film and television projects that have won over 150 awards and sold to over 160 countries. From feature films (The Stand!, Faces In The Crowd, Lucid and more) to scripted dramas (Keep Your Head Up Kid: The Don Cherry Story, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Men With Brooms, etc.) to scripted comedies (Still Standing, Baroness Von Sketch Show and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival). Jamie has also created and co-created over a dozen series in various genres and personally won numerous Gemini, Canadian Screen Awards and Banff Rockie Awards, to name a few.

Jamie began his career as a lawyer with the prominent Toronto Law firm McMillan, where he focused on corporate finance and entertainment law. After turns at Sullivan Entertainment and Nelvana in business and legal affairs, he moved into a role as executive producer in 1998 at Winnipeg's Credo Entertainment. Jamie was the first recipient of the Lions Gate Innovative Producer Award, named in of Canada's Top 40 Under 40, received the I.H. Asper Broadcasting Entrepreneur of the Future Award, was nominated as the New Media Visionary at the Canadian New Media Awards and was the CMPA's Entrepreneur of the Year. Currently Jamie is the past-chair of the Board of Canada's national producers association the CMPA and was Chair of Canada's National Screen Institute. Jamie also sits on the Manitoba Business Council, the Cancer Care Foundation and Assiniboine Park Conservancy Boards and is a member of the Premier's Economic Opportunities Advisory Board.