Marc Almon
Marc Almon is a filmmaker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Almon is best known his work as the producer of the Canadian feature films "Blackbird" and "Weirdos". Career. Almon was chosen to be a participant in the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op Film 5 program for young directors. He subsequently gained credits as a producer, director and writer on a number of award-winning short films, including "The Wake of Calum MacLeod" and "D’Unee Rive a l'Autre" (director: Maxime Desmons), which have screened at international film festivals and have aired on CBC, Global, BBC, Bravo! and the Sundance  Channel. Almon was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2008, won the National Screen Institute Drama Prize in 2010, was a finalist for the TIFF Pitch This! competition, and attended the Rotterdam Lab and Trans Atlantic Partners co-production training program. Almon's film "Blackbird" made its debut at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Best Canadian First Feature Award. "Blackbird" continued to screen and win awards around the world, including the Grand Prix at Cannes Junior 2013. In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter named Almon was named a member of  the Next Gen: 20 Young Canadian Stars On the Rise in Hollywood. In 2015, Almon became the chairman of Screen Nova Scotia., an organization which represents Nova Scotia film, television and digital media. In this role he was involved in negotiations with the provincial government about changes to the film tax credit. Marc executive produced the film "Your Money or Your Wife" in 2015 and produced "Weirdos" in 2016.