Company Profile

Launched in February of 2002, Markham Street Films Inc ., created by Michael McNamara and Judy Holm, makes film and video projects for theatrical, broadcast and educational exhibition.   Michael McNamara has an impressive list of credits as a creative producer, director and writer of documentaries, comedy, variety and children's programs. McNamara has won two Gemini Awards and been nominated five times.   Judy Holm brings over fifteen years experience in feature films to complement McNamara's twenty years' experience in the television industry.   The pair previously collaborated on Wrinkle on which Holm was the co-writer, associate producer and narrator. McNamara co-produced, directed and co-wrote the film, which aired on CBC Newsworld's Rough Cuts in January 2001. McNamara received a Gemini nomination for directing.   Wrinkle has since been sold in Australia, Israel Quebec and the UK, where it aired on Discovery Health.

Over 2002 and 2003, through Markham Street Films Inc., Michael McNamara and Judy Holm increased the production slate of both television and feature film projects, building on the strengths of its partners.   In the fall of 2002, Sarah Jane Flynn came on board as a producer and in 2004 Aaron Holm joined as VP U.S. In 2002 MSF co-produced Hearing Voices: The Lives & Times of Rich Little (CBC). In 2003, MSF delivered Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of The Big 8 for History Television, and Genuine Article: The First Trial , with writer/director David Bezmozgis, for The Documentary Channel and W Network. In 2004, MSF delivered Meet The Sumdees , a P.O.V. exploration of a cross-cultural marriage for Vision TV and Flatly Stacked , a look at the significance of being less than well-endowed in our breast-obsessed world, for TVO and The Documentary Channel. Penis Dementia: The Search for the Perfect Penis has gone into production for Discovery Health Canada and Canal Vie, as well as Stacked Like Me, (DHC) to round out the trio of provocative but amusing investigations of misunderstood body parts.   

Markham Street Films has an exclusive option to develop a documentary based on the book 100 Films and A Funeral , by former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment President Michael Kuhn.    Looking at the rise and fall of PFE, the film will also examine the business of the local film industries in which PFE established branches, and the influence of Hollywood on those local industries: the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, Spain and the Netherlands and worked with such stellar talents as the Coen Brothers, Jodie Foster and the producers at Working Title. 100 Films and A Funeral is currently in development with The Documentary Channel and Movie Central.

On the feature film front, Markham Street Films Inc. is producing Sleepyhead .   Sleepyhead is written by Noel Baker and developed by Telefilm, Movie Central and Bravo. Markham Street Films is also producing the feature film Victoria Day with writer/director David Bezmozgis.

Other Production credits include: The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati - the critically acclaimed indie feature and an official selection of the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, as well as many other festivals around the world.   The star of the film, Alan Williams, was nominated for a Best Actor Genie.   John Scott: Art & Justice   - a documentary on the life of a notorious Canadian artist.   The film was an official selection of the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, the Cork Ireland Film Festival and was nominated as Best Short Documentary at the 1999 Hot Docs Film Festival.   Hearing Voices - The Lives and Times of Rich Little , a co-production with Real to Reel Productions broadcast on CBC in November 2002.