The Film Monkeys

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Tricia Lee

Producer / Director

Tricia Lee grew up in Toronto and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the Film and Video specialized Honours program at York University. She has traveled to England to study Media Production for a year at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle and worked in L.A. for a year. She owns her own production company A Film Monkey Production Inc. in Toronto, through which she has produced and directed several projects for film and television. Past films include Paper Tulips for YTV through the CFTPA Corus Young Filmmaker Initiative and the Bravo!FACT Marv Freetell’s Wedding Day which won a Special Jury Award at Houston Worldfest.

Recently, Tricia directed her first feature Clean Break. She also won the Reel Asian Charles Street Video Award, Bravo!FACT grant and NFB FAP award for Searching For Wonder.  She is developing a comedy TV series Standby with Fifth Ground Entertainment (Rent-A-Goalie). She won The N Youth Drama Pitch at the Banff Television Festival and the Kodak Audience Choice Award for the TV series Waiting in the Wings, which she is developing with Marblemedia (This is Daniel Cook). She placed second at the SUNTV Convergence Pitch at the WIFT Summit for her Street Racing PSA that offered mentorship to youth. Tricia was selected to participate in the NBC Universal Development Incubator. She has also worked as a field producer / director for Kids CBC and produced the Bravo!FACT Young Prime Minister and the Ontario Arts Council short The Old Ways.

Tricia loves traveling, hot yoga, rock climbing, scuba diving and riding her motorcycle.

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Corey Brown

Head of Development

Corey Brown attended the film and video program at York University in Toronto, where he received the President’s Scholarship for the duration of his studies. He was also selected to attend the NBC Universal Development Incubator through WIFT and Telefim in 2006.

Corey has written several scripts for short and feature films. Most recently, his screenplay Clean Break went into production with Geordie Sabbagh Productions and Dark Hope Entertainment. His short films include Marv Freetell’s Wedding Day (for Bravo!FACT) and an adaptation of Jessica Grant’s short story Humanesque. He is also developing a comedy television series about the daily lives of paramedics entitled Standby, which is optioned by Fifth Ground Entertainment (Rent-A-Goalie). As well, he is in the process of developing a television series entitled Waiting in the Wings, which is optioned by Marblebmedia (This is Daniel Cook, The Dating Guy) and won the N Youth Drama Prize and the Kodak Audience Choice Award at the Banff Television Festival.