The Filmmakers: Jamie Brown - Executive Producer, Producer
Jamie Brown joined Frantic Films as a partner in November 2000. Since then, Frantic has won many awards including being named one of Profit Magazine's "Hottest Start-ups" in 2001 and one of the Profit 100 "Fastest Growing Companies" in Canada in 2004.
Jamie is the creator, producer and executive producer of many highly successful programs including the "Quest" series. Quest for the Bay was the highest-rated documentary series on History Television in 2001/02 and Klondike: The Quest for Gold was its highest rated new series. Jamie's work extends to other genres such as the CTV movie Zeyda and the Hitman, and a new prime time series for Global Television, Last Chance for Romance. In the fall of 2004 Brown began production on three projects: Bomber Boys and Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit for History Television, as well as The First Year for the Life Network .
Prior to joining Frantic, Jamie was an Executive Producer at Credo Entertainment, where he created, produced and executive produced Pioneer Quest, the first "living-history" project made in North America. Before joining Credo, Jamie was part of the Business & Legal Affairs team at Nelvana Limited, and Director of Business and Legal Affairs at Sullivan Entertainment. He began his career as a lawyer with the prominent Toronto law firm McMillan Binch, where he worked in corporate finance and entertainment law.
Named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2003, Jamie received the Lions Gate Innovative Producer Award that same year, and the I.H. Asper Broadcast Entrepreneur of the Future Award in 2002.
