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Anna Stratton
SpouseTom Campbell
Websitehttp://www.triptychmedia.ca

Anna Stratton is a Canadian film and television producer. Her projects include the feature films Zero Patience (1993), Lilies (for which she won a 1996 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture), and Emotional Arithmetic (2007). Her work in television includes the award-winning children's program L'Histoire de l'Oie.

Biography

Anna Stratton has a background in the theatre, where she worked as a producer, administrator and educator and as Head of English Language Theatre for the Canada Council. She produced many stage productions, including the hit play, Tamara. She is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. Anna has served on many boards and committees including the Feature Film Project of the Canadian Film Centre, Dance Umbrella of Ontario, the First Night Festival and the Toronto Theatre Festival. She is a co-founder of Reel Canada, the festival of films for high schools and of PRO, the Producer’s Roundtable of Ontario, and serves on the OMDC advisory group for screen-based industries.

One of the founders of Toronto-based Triptych Media in 1994, Anna and partner Robin Cass bring together their backgrounds in the theatre and visual arts to develop and produce bold, award-winning film and television entertainment. The company’s slate runs the gamut from comedy to drama, with properties chosen for the strength of their characters, innovative story-telling and social relevance. Triptych is best known for the features Falling Angels, The Republic of Love, The Hanging Garden, Lilies and the ground-breaking Zero Patience as well as for its television dramas 'Lucky Girl', The Tale of Teeka (French title: L'Histoire de L'Oie) and Gordon Pinsent’s Heyday! The company is an active co-production partner internationally and within Canada.

Triptych’s latest films are Gary Yates’ feature High Life, based on the hit play by Lee MacDougall; Emotional Arithmetic, based on the novel by the late Matt Cohen, directed by Paolo Barzman, and starring Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis and Max von Sydow. Currently in release is the documentary As Slow as Possible by Scott Smith and Triptych is executive producer on Richie Mehta’s feature debut, Amal.

Filmography

High Life (2009) (executive producer)
Emotional Arithmetic (2007) (producer)
... aka Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning (USA)
Heyday! (2006) (TV) (producer)
The Republic of Love (2003) (producer)
The Bay of Love and Sorrows (2002) (producer)
... aka Baie de l'amour et des regrets, La (Canada: French title)
The Bookfair Murders (2000) (TV) (executive producer) (producer)
L'Histoire de l'Oie (1998) (TV) (executive producer)
... aka The Tale of Teeka (Canada: English title)
Lilies - Les feluettes (1996) (producer)
... aka Lilies (Canada: French title: short title)
Zero Patience (1993) (producer)

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