Johanna Lunn

Johanna Lunn started Wild East Productions in April 2005. Forgiveness: Stories of Our Time was commissioned by CTV and is her first project as director/producer.

Prior to forming Wild East, Lunn was director of programming for IFC – The Independent Film Channel Canada. She was critical to the launch of the channel in 2001 and her responsibilities included commissioning or acquiring all content for the channel, the schedule, over-all management of the program group and the Halifax office. In its first year, IFC produced in-house or commissioned close to 120 hours of original programming.

Lunn came to IFC from CTV where she established the Atlantic Development Office with the mandate to develop quality Canadian programming for the network and its family of channels. She was responsible for commissioning award-winning documentaries, dramas and comedy series.

Prior to working at CTV, Lunn was artistic director for the Atlantic Film Festival where she launched a number of programming initiatives including the creation of English Canada’s first competitive children’s film festival.

Kent Martin

An accomplished documentarian whose directorial credits include the Gemini Award-winning Donald Brittain: Filmmaker, Atlantic Centre Executive Producer Kent Martin has been bringing great stories to the screen for nearly three decades.

Kent’s recent productions include the acclaimed NFB documentary Westray, a moving account of the 1992 mine disaster winner that garnered the Genie for Best Documentary, as well as The Spirit of Annie Mae, looking back at an influential Nova Scotia-born Aboriginal activist murdered under mysterious circumstances. He also served as NFB producer on the Genie-nominated co-production Men of the Deeps, about a choir of retired coal miners, which aired nationally on CTV and was hailed as a “gem” by the Globe and Mail.

New releases include the NFB feature doc Animals, an exploration of the human-animal relationship that received the Rex Tasker Award for Best Documentary, as well as the timely NFB co-pro Teaching Peace in a Time of War.