The Filmmakers
Peter Klein
Director and Executive Producer
Peter is a three-time Emmy Award-winning director and producer who has created dozens of hours of documentary programming during his 30-year career. As a founding producer of New York Times Video News International, he was one of the pioneers of small-format vérité documentary filmmaking. He went on to shoot year-long documentaries for ABC News Nightline, investigative films for PBS Frontline, and policy-changing global exposés for CBS News 60 Minutes. He created the Emmy-nominated History Channel investigative documentary series Beyond Top Secret, served as senior producer of the serialized CBS documentary program I-Witness, and founded the non-profit Global Reporting Centre.
Calyn Shaw
Producer
Calyn is a longtime producer of confrontational journalism. His documentary work includes an episode of People and Power for Al Jazeera about mental health in under-resourced environments, and an award-winning PBS Frontline investigation of broken supply chains during the Covid-19 pandemic. At CBC News Network his investigative work detailed flaws in the government’s response to bridge suicides in Vancouver, and for the New York Times he exposed targeted killings over farmland in Brazil. His recent work includes longform articles about offshore tax dodging for the Toronto Star and Mother Jones.
Claire Ward
Director of Photography
Claire is an award-winning journalist and longtime documentary cameraperson and producer for VICE News and VICE on HBO, with experience shooting in over 20 countries. She is a journalist first, cameraperson second, and approaches each project with sensitivity and integrity. She has taught visual journalism at the UBC School of Journalism and the University of King’s College in Halifax as well as Master classes at her alma mater, NYU.
Mike Jackson
Editor
Mike is an Emmy-nominated editor, as well as an award-winning director. He has cut for Peter Klein on numerous other projects, including Beyond Top Secret (for which he was nominated for an Emmy) and Green Scare with Dan Rather. He has edited projects and features for Disney, CBS, the History Channel, and Legendary Pictures. Recent features he has cut include the award-winning coming-of-age drama Golden Delicious, and Taming the Beast, a documentary about legendary British strongman Eddie Hall.
Kim Frank
Editor
Kim began working as a video editor in 2004, after a long career as a contemporary dancer and choreographer. She edited the Emmy Award winning FRONTLINE documentary “Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground,” and the Emmy-nominated “In a Small Town” for PBS Exposé. Other credits include documentaries for the Discovery Channel, Omni, CNBC, New York Times TV, and Dan Rather Reports.
Mark Miller
Executive Producer
Mark is a television and film executive who has been a central figure in Vancouver’s unscripted industry for more than a decade, executive producing series including Game of Homes, Save My Reno, High Arctic Haulers, Queen of the Oil Patch, Mud Mountain Haulers, and Highway Thru Hell and its spin-off Heavy Rescue: 401. Mark served as president and board director of Thunderbird Entertainment Group, helping to guide the company as it went public in 2018. Mark also co-founded, and led as CEO, Great Pacific Media, which became part of Thunderbird in 2014.