THE TEAM
Ken Kabatoff
Director
Ken Kabatoff is an accomplished writer and director with over
fifteen years of experience in the film industry, delivering high quality stories to millions of viewers.
Starting in 2016, Ken wrote for the critically acclaimed sci-fi
Netflix series, Travelers, where he became co-producer. In
2020, he was nominated for the “Best Drama” Writers Guild of
Canada Award for his final episode.
After directing multiple short films that have screened for tens of thousands of viewers around the world, Ken was awarded the prestigious Directors Guild of Canada BC Emerging Greenlight award to direct a deeply personal short film titled, The Doukhobor. The film is now on the festival circuit, allowing Ken to focus on his feature directorial debut, Remnant.
Christopher Nash
Writer/Producer
Christopher Nash is a screenwriter, independent filmmaker,
film critic, and academic. He earned a Master’s degree in English from Dalhousie University with a thesis that reconsiders arguments against literary utility in Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon, and his current work builds on the same desire to find new meaning in familiar forms and genres.
He has written, produced, and directed several no-budget features, and runs a YouTube channel releasing independent films.
Mike Johnston
Producer
Mike Johnston is an award-winning producer and co-founder of Studio 104 Entertainment, an independent production company that climbed Playback’s Indie List in 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively.
In 2023, he represented Canada at the European Film Market as a delegate for Telefilm’s Canada Producer Without Borders program. He co-produced I’m Just Here For The Riot (VIFF’23), an ESPN ’30 for 30’ documentary and served as an Associate Producer for The Grizzly Truth, a Crave Original documentary. He has produced Wild Goat Surf (VIFF ’23), Delta Dawn (Doc NYC ’24, Hot Docs ’25) and Curl Power (Hot Docs ’24, VIFF ’24), which became Telus’ top-performing theatrical release, playing on 73 screens at theatres across Canada.
Mike’s most recent projects include Send The Rain, which is due for release in 2026 and Memoria, an international co-production with Colombia, which is in development. Mike has been nominated for the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award at the 2024 Indie Screen Awards, named one of the Playback Magazine’s 10 To Watch, and is a standing member of the Canadian Media Producers Association.
Matthew began his professional career working in Los Angeles for notable companies like Valhalla Motion Pictures (The Walking Dead, The Terminator) and Lighthouse Productions (Mimic, The Sting) before moving back to Vancouver and producing the award-winning short Milo 55160 starring Patrick McKenna.
Building on that success, Matthew produced his first feature The Colony starring Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton and produced his second feature Cruel & Unusual in partnership with EOne, Corus Entertainment and Bell Media. He followed that with Juggernaut, starring Jack Kesy and Amanda Crew, in partnership with levelFILM and Telefilm Canada.
Matthew continues to develop projects for the film and television landscape, recently producing the feature The Island Between Tides (aka The Lost Daughter), inspired by the story Mary Rose from J.M. Barrie who created the iconic Peter Pan, starring Donal Logue, Adam Beach, David Mazouz and Paloma Kwiatkowski and executive producing the film Hard Home starring Andrew Howard and Simone Kessell for Paramount Pictures.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from the USC School of Cinema/Television and attended the Producer’s Lab at the Canadian Film Centre.
Matthew Cervi
Executive Producer
