# EyeSteelFilm

EyeSteelFilm is a Montreal-based Canadian cinema production company co-founded by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin, dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic expression. Today the studio is run by co-presidents Mila Aung-Thwin and Bob Moore.
All three of the principals in the firm have been winners of the Don Haig Award for independent documentary film production from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, with Cross winning in 2017, Moore in 2020, and Aung-Thwin in 2022.

## Notable collective members

* Daniel Cross - producer and director
* Mila Aung-Thwin - producer and director
* Bob Moore - producer

### Directors (past and present)

* Laura Bari - director
* Yung Chang - director
* Karina Garcia Casanova - director
* Eric "Roach" Denis - director
* Mia Donovan - director
* Lixin Fan - director
* Omar Majeed - director
* Peter Wintonick - director
* Ryan Mullins - director
* Brett Gaylor - director, interactive producer

## Films
### Full feature documentary films

| Date | Film | Director | Notes |
| 1997 | The Street: A Film with the Homeless | Daniel Cross | |
| 2001 | Too Colourful for the League | Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin | |
| 2001 | S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic | Daniel Cross | |
| 2001 | Music for a Blue Train | Mila Aung-Thwin | |
| 2002 | Bone | Mila Aung-Thwin | |
| 2003 | RoachTrip | Eric "Roach" Denis | |
| 2004 | Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive | Daniel Cross, Mila Aung-Thwin, Brett Gaylor and the students of Inukjuak - Innalik School | |
| 2005 | Chairman George | Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin | |
| 2006 | Punk the Vote! | Eric "Roach" Denis | Punk le vote! |
| 2007 | Up the Yangtze | Yung Chang | |
| 2008 | RiP!: A Remix Manifesto | Brett Gaylor | |
| 2008 | Antoine | Laura Bari | |
| 2009 | Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam | Omar Majeed | |
| 2009 | Last Train Home | Lixin Fan | (simplified Chinese: 归途列车; traditional Chinese: 歸途列車) aka Guītú Lièchē / Gui tu lie che |
| 2011 | The Vanishing Spring Light | Xun Yu | |
| 2011 | Inside Lara Roxx | Mia Donovan | |
| 2011 | Fortunate Son | Tony Asimakopoulos | |
| 2011 | The Frog Princes | Ryan Mullins and Omar Majeed | |
| 2012 | China Heavyweight | Yung Chang | Chinese 千錘百煉 |
| 2012 | The Fruit Hunters | Yung Chang | |
| 2015 | Family Demolition (La démolition familiale) | Patrick Damien-Roy | |
| 2015 | I Am the Blues | Daniel Cross | |
| 2017 | Let There Be Light | Mila Aung-Thwin and Van Royko | |
| 2018 | Anote's Ark | Matthieu Rytz | |
| 2019 | Wintopia | Mira Burt-Wintonick | |
| 2023 | Twice Colonized | Lin Alluna | |
| 2024 | Yintah | Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano | |

### Short films

| Date | Film | Director | Notes |
| 2007 | The Colony | Jeff Barnaby | Short film |
| 2008 | Ali Shan | Yung Chang | Short film |
| 2010 | Mokhtar | Halima Ouardiri | Short film |
Films presently in progress include:
* Rainforest: The Limit of Spleandor (by Richard Boyce), Inkulal (by Linda Vastrik), Inventing the Future (by Daniel Cross), Jingle Bell Rocks! (by Mitchell Kezin), Just A Click Away (by Laura Turek), Les Tickets (by Eric "Roach" Denis), Such Great Heights (by Richard Boyce), Turcot (by Daniel Cross)

## Recognition

EyeSteelFilm has received numerous awards from international film festivals and annual television and film awards. EyeSteelFilm has collaborated with international broadcasters including Super Channel, PBS, CBC, National Geographic Channel, The History Channel, BBC, YLE, TV2 Denmark, ZDF ARTE, The Documentary Channel, SBS, etc. They have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, SODEC, CALQ, and National Film Board of Canada.
* EyeSteelFilm is a RealScreen magazine Global 100 Company.
* Montreal Mirror arts weekly chose the firm as one of the "Noisemaker"s of 2007.
* EyeSteelFilm founder and president was one of five MIPDOC Trailblazers of 2008.