Latefox Collective
The Collective
Writer / Director
John Ainslie
John Ainslie is an accomplished writer and director, who broke into filmmaking when he won the Borsos prize of Best Cinematographer at the Whistler Film Festival for Sk8life which premiered at Sundance and is an Academy Nicholl semifinalist. His first feature was the horror/comedy Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. The film premiered at Sitges Film Festival where it won Best Midnight Film before screening at the Fantasia International Film Festival and Slamdance.
In 2014, John wrote and directed the The Sublet and followed that up with the intense thriller short She Came Knocking which was awarded Best Short at the Canadian Film Festival in Toronto.
In 2021 he wrote an episode of The Haunted Museum and directed two episodes and wrote for Eli Roth’s Ghosts Ruined My Life. Both were anthology series for Executive Producer Eli Roth streaming on Discovery+. In 2022 he wrote and directed the feature Do No Disturb (Dark Star Pictures) which premiered at Miami’s Popcorn Frights Film Festival, Fright Fest UK, LA’s Screamfest and Grimmfest.
Director / Cinematographer
Martin Buzora
Martin Buzora is an award-winning filmmaker working around the globe. His latest documentary portrait The Story of Pema is the first film of its kind by a Western filmmaker to come out of Tibet, and provides an exceedingly rare glimpse into a forbidden land and its people. Martin's ongoing series about children from disappearing cultures is not only a love song to ancient ways of life, but also an anthropological record of indigenous people whose survival into the future is unclear.
His documentary series Kenya Wildlife Diaries for Smithsonian chronicled some of the most important conservation and anti-poaching work in East Africa, and was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Factual Series and Best Cinematography. Martin recently filmed the new documentary series Enslaved with Samuel L. Jackson, and captured the actor's journey into Central and West Africa to discover stunning new evidence about the scale of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade while exploring his own tribal ancestry.
Cinematographer
Scott McIntyre
For the better part of 14 years, Scott has firmly established himself as an award winning, multi-format Toronto cinematographer and Director of Photography (DOP). This two-time Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) Award Nominee started out in the demanding and competitive arena of advertising and corporate video, it was there that he honed his disciplined attention to detail and innate motion picture aesthetic; qualities that brought him to the attention and employ of some of the world’s most recognized global brands.
Scott is a cinematographer with the technological know-how to deliver arresting images on time and on budget. Furthermore, he displays the maturity and work ethic of a seasoned pro many years his senior.
Scott has been a member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers since 2015, becoming an associate member in 2019. Some of his cinematography credits include Do Not Disturb, Queen of Spades and Death on Scenic Drive.
Writer / Director
Gabriel Carrer
Gabriel Carrer is a film director and screenwriter who helmed the 2010 underground horror success If a Tree Falls (Raven Banner Entertainment), which premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival. He returned to Fantasia in 2015 with The Demolisher (Darksky Films), winning the Silver Audience Award, and gained acclaim at festivals worldwide such as the Vancouver International Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, Hardline, Toronto After Dark Film & Feratum.
In 2021, he composed the score and co-directed the SHUDDER streaming exclusive film, For the Sake of Vicious (Epic Pictures). Carrer returned to Fantasia a third time for its world premiere and it continued to play a series of festivals including Frightfest, Macabro, Hardline, Telluride Horror Show & Sitges Film Festival. Carrer directed the documentary Underbelly which explored the underground adventure of the world's leading urban artists, such as Ron English, Logan Hicks and Shepard Fairey. Other directing credits include In the House of Flies, featuring punk rock icon Henry Rollins as "The Voice" and Death on Scenic Drive.
Writer / Story Editor
Dave McLeod
Dave McLeod got his first taste of the film industry while working in press and theatres at a variety of top film festivals such as Toronto International Film Festival, Miami, Sprockets. He has also received writing contracts with Decode Entertainment as a story editor and Keystone Entertainment for script rewrites.
He produced the film In the House of Flies (2012) starring punk rock icon and social commentator Henry Rollins. Dave has also written numerous screenplays for studios under contract, and has established himself as a freelance screenwriter for a variety of clients who need script adaptations, story editing, script editing and screenplay consulting.
Sound Designer / Composer
Benjamin Zuiderweg
Ben is an award winning sound designer and composer who has worked in the industry for over a decade. He specializes in Synthesis and Postproduction Sound and has edited and mixed content placed on major platforms like Amazon, Shudder and YouTube. He researched at the School of Communication, focusing on Audio Restoration, Synthesis, and Music Technology and has worked abroad, specifically in Ibiza Spain at Sonic Vista Studios and as a sound design instructor at the Los Angeles Film School.
Most recently, he won for Best Original Score at the Tokyo Monthly International Film Festival for the film Andrew Ginger Likes Dogs. Ben specializes in Synthesis and Postproduction Sound. You can visit ben’s official website at: www.benjaminzuiderweg.com