Trish Dolman
Producer Trish Dolman founded Screen Siren Pictures in 1997 and has been writing, directing, and producing Canadian film and television for seventeen years.
Most recently, Trish produced, wrote, and directed the critically acclaimed feature documentary Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson, about the notorious environmental activist. The film premiered at Hot Docs 2011 where it was voted a Top Ten Audience Favourite. The film also won Best Documentary at the Projecting Change Film Festival, and received a Special Jury Mention at Reykjavik International Film Festival. Eco-Pirate was theatrically released across Canada by Entertainment One in summer 2011, and across New Zealand by Foton in November 2011.
Trish’s latest feature drama is director/writer Max McGuire’s debut film FOREVERLAND; starring Max Thieriot, Laurence Leboeuf, Demián Bichir, Thomas Dekker and Juliette Lewis. Previously Trish produced four other debut features. In 2010, Michael Goldbach’s DAYDREAM NATION opened TIFF’s Features First! and stars Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell, and Josh Lucas. In 2009, she completed YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE (a co-production with The Film Farm) by writer/director Sook-Yin Lee (Shortbus) starring Kristin Milioti, Mark Rendall, Will Sasso, Sheila McCarthy and Kevin McDonald which opened Canada First! at TIFF 2009. In 2005, she produced THE SCORE, a groundbreaking musical drama by Electric Company theatre director Kim Collier, which screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Puerto Vallarta Film Festival and INPUT (Taipei), and was nominated for Best Musical Score in a Feature Length Film (2006 Leo Awards) and Best Movie of the Week (2006 Banff Television Awards). In 2001/2002 she produced Keith Behrman’s first feature, FLOWER & GARNET which won more than twenty awards, (including Claude Jutra for Best First Feature, Best Narrative at the Boston International Film Festival), screened at Berlin (Panorama Special Section), Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Karlovy Vary, Pusan and MOMA: Canadian Front, and played in Vancouver theatres for over eleven weeks.
Trish has also produced more than ten award-winning documentary films and factual series, a number of them international co-productions. She recently completed THE FIRST MOVIE, a UK/Canada co-production directed by Mark Cousins.
Trish’s producing credits for dramatic television include the Genie nominated LUNA: SPIRIT OF THE WHALE, a TV movie for CTV and Peace Arch Entertainment starring Adam Beach, Graham Greene and Jason Priestley.
In 2003, Trish was the youngest recipient ever of the Woman of the Year award from Women in Film and Video Vancouver. She was also honored as Eveuve Clicquot Ponsardin La Grande Dame 2003 Woman of Distinction, and in 2010 was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in British Columbia by the Vancouver Sun.