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Steven Mitchell
Steven is a Toronto-based, award-winning screenwriter, producer and director whose career spans scripted television, documentaries, factual entertainment, and feature film development.
He began his career as a film and television editor, where he developed a deep understanding of visual storytelling and the craft of shaping compelling narratives.
His selected credits include THE LITTLEST HOBO, MY SECRET IDENTITY, MATRIX, YOUTH & CRIME: BEYOND THE HEADLINES, THE SMART WOMAN’S SURVIVAL GUIDE, EVERYDAY EXOTIC and YOU GOTTA EAT HERE! As Series Producer of YGEH!, he shaped and led the Food Network hit during its Canadian Screen Award-winning 5-year run.
Over four decades, Steven has approached storytelling from every stage of the creative process, and now from the blank page as a feature screenwriter.
His debut screenplay, SHADOW IN HAWTHORN BAY, adapted from Janet Lunn’s bestselling and acclaimed novel, has received international recognition through screenplay competitions and film festivals, introducing him as a compelling new voice. His interests and work span historical drama, folklore, elevated science fiction, and dark satire, united by a fascination with overlooked stories and the people at their centre.
Steven is currently developing THE CLOWN RIOTS, a satirical feature inspired by one of Canada’s strangest true stories.
Al Magee
Al Magee is a television producer, creative consultant, and showrunner with over 2,000 episodes of scripted, unscripted, and documentary content on series like Trailer Park Boys, Little Mosque On The Prairie, Cardinal, Slings and Arrows, Rent-A-Goalie, Kink, Designer Guys, Income Property, and Nail In The Coffin.
As a non-fiction showrunner, he has won a Canadian Screen Award, and as the showrunner for the international documentary series Interrupt This Program, he led his team to an Emmy Nomination. He has worked with many of Canada’s most influential filmmakers, including Bruce McDonald, Clement Virgo, Deepa Mehta, Vincenzo Natalie, and Jeremy Podeswa.
Honored numerous times for mentoring emerging talent, Al has designed and delivered hundreds of writing and production workshops. He has won the Alex Barris Mentorship Award from the Writers Guild of Canada and the Banff World TV Festival’s Award for Innovative Producer of the Year. In 2016, he founded the annual Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Award and mentorship. He is very proud of his 4.84 passenger rating on Uber, clawing his way back to honor after loaning the account to his teenage sons.
Success
Green Bank Pictures has produced hundreds of hours of hit television programming.
Selected Credits
THE SAGA OF SKALLAGRIM ICE-WASTER (Screenplay)
In a near-future Dark Age, a young man prophesied to become “King of the South” is exiled with his family aboard a cursed refugee fleet, where he must survive warring overlords, mythic threats, and his fate to find salvation and fulfill a destiny foretold by his Norse sibyl mother.
(Currently writing)
Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Screenplay)
In the early 1800s, a young Scottish woman, burdened with the strange gift of “second sight”, embarks on a perilous journey to find her missing sweetheart in the wilderness of Upper Canada. Confronted by a dark truth upon her arrival, Mary must choose between a second chance at life and love amongst a community wary of her visions – or succumb to the dark shadows of her past, which threaten to take her life.
“This feature film screenplay is a bold but deceptively old-fashioned drama that has good character work and an intimately epic scope. A sweeping, at times very haunting, drama, extremely well written.”
– CHRIS WATT, 2025 GOLDEN SCRIPT INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
“This is an extraordinary role for a top actress, and securing talent would be a good way to increase its commercial potential. Not a blockbuster but a prestige picture for a mature audience. I wish you the best of luck telling this epic love story.”
– BETH ANSLEY, UK DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE & STORY PRODUCER
Awards
- Melbourne International Screenplay Awards 2026: Winner
- Canada Independent Film Festival 2026: Official Selection
- Adapted Story Showcase 2026: Official Selection
- Peachtree Village International Film Festival 2026: Finalist
- Athens International Art Film Festival 2026: Honourable Mention
- Capital Fund Screenplay Contest 2026: 9th place in Top 100
- Forest City Film Festival 2026: Finalist
- Berlin International Screenwriting Festival 2026: Finalist
- Cambridge Script Festival 2026: Finalist
- Sweden Film Awards 2026: Finalist
- Best Script Award – London 2026: Finalist
- Fade In Awards – DRAMA Screenplay Competition 2026: Semi-Finalist
- Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 2026: Quarter-Finalist
- Cut To Black Prize 2026 – Invitation Only: Quarter-Finalist
- Nashville Film Festival 2026: Quarter-Finalist
- Austin Film Festival 2025: Second Rounder
- Atlanta Film Festival 2025: Semi-Finalist
- Vail Film Festival 2025: Quarter-Finalist
- Outstanding Screenplays Features Competition 2025: Semi-Finalist
- WriteMovies 80 Writing Contest 2025: Quarter-Finalist
- ISA The Great Pitch Competition 2025: Quarter-Finalist
- The Golden Script Competition 2024: Semi-Finalist
Big Science [EP]
A bold, groundbreaking initiative of Green Bank Pictures and Associated Universities Inc. with support from Michigan State University. Our team is collaborating on an integrated documentary series and education resource geared towards celebrating the STEM workforce and skilled trades that make science happen.
Green Bank Observatory
Astronomers from around the world use the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) because it is the most accurate, versatile, and largest fully-steerable radio telescope on the planet. Its white, stadium-sized dish weighs 17 million tons and towers over a quaint river valley in West Virginia’s national radio quiet zone.
Mustang-2, an incredibly sensitive and finicky camera designed to take images of distant galaxy clusters, is failing. It requires uninstalling it from its perch 485’ above ground level — at the height of the GBT — for a shop repair, then reinstalling it. All within an 8-hour maintenance window!
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is home to the Ocean Observatory Initiative’s (OOI) Irminger Sea Array off the coasts of Greenland and Iceland. It collects climate data in one of the harshest corners of the planet, where the Atlantic and Arctic oceans clash.
Scientists believe the North Atlantic currents, which circulate warm equatorial waters to cool in the north before returning south, are moving slower than they have in 1,000 years. It’s a mystery whether the weakening is due to a change in circulation or an increased loss of stability. The slightest change means dramatic consequences for the weather on Earth.
Extreme Rituals [EP]
A social documentary series from Green Bank Pictures, with the support of the University of Connecticut’s Experimental Anthropology Lab. It explores how rituals fulfill, excite, heal, and unite us. Based on the best-selling book by pioneering anthropologist Dr Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living.
Rituals are ingrained in us. They comfort us through major events: births and graduations, religious and community celebrations, marriages and death. But recently, the rituals we once took for granted have been taken away. We now realize just how much they mean to us. As we re-emerge from COVID’s grasp and reconnect, there’s an appetite for more extreme ritual behavior in participants, spectators, and the ritual curious.