Meet the Team

Ina Fichman
President & Producer

Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy nominated and Peabody-awarded producer Ina Fichman, has been producing award-winning feature documentary and fiction films, and interactive projects for close to 30 years. Many of her creative documentaries have been released in theatres in Canada and abroad and have played at festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Hot Docs, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, RIDM, CPH:DOX, Venice, SXSW, Tribeca, TIFF and others. Her most recent film Coexistence, My Ass! won the Human Rights Award at Sundance and the top prize at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. It is currently doing the international festival circuit. Ina also produced the acclaimed documentary Fire of Love which had its world premiere at Sundance 2022 where it was sold to National Geographic Documentary Films and subsequently released by Neon in the US, Dogwoof in the UK and MK2 in the rest of the world. In the past year, Ina's films 7 Beats Per Minute, Adrianne & The Castle and The Bones have been travelling to top tiered festivals worldwide and are slated to be released late 2024 and 2025. Other films include Stray, The Gig is Up, Once Upon a Sea, Blue Box, The Oslo Diaries, Inside Lehman Brothers, Gift and Laila at the Bridge. Award-winning productions also include Amer Shomali's The Wanted 18, Monsoon (Canada's Top 10) and Vita Activa: The Story of Hannah Arendt. In 2018, Ina was the recipient of the Don Haig Award from Hot Docs which recognizes the work of a Canadian independent producer. She is currently the co-chair of the board of the IDA (International Documentary Association) and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.