GREG DUMMETT (Co-Producer)

 

Producer Greg Dummett hadn’t even completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema Studies (which he’d be granted by the University of Toronto in 1987) when he was already active in the film industry.  His first project was to produce the 1985 music documentary, The Reed Man.  In 1987 he’d make his directorial debut with Out on a Limbo, which he also produced.  That film would take an Honourable Mention at that year’s Montreal Film Festival.  Also in 1987, Dummett launched his own production company, O’B & D Films.

  In 1988 he won a fellowship to the prestigious Banff International Television Festival.  He went on to produce St. Nicholas and the Children for CTV.  In 1989 he wrote his first theatrical feature film, Giant Steps, which he’d produce as a theatrical feature film in 1992.  Other television production credits include CTV’s Trick or Treat in 1990 and CBC’s Johann’s Gift to Christmas in 1991.

  Dummett’s features include Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1998), based upon Mordecai Richler’s acclaimed children’s novel, The Boys Club (1996), and Giant Steps (1992).  In 1998 he co-produced the feature film Four Days, which starred Colm Meany, Lolita Davidovich, and William Forsythe, with Cité-Amerique.  It marked the beginning of a relationship between Dummet and his Quebec counterparts that continues with Lost and Delirious.

 

(taken from the Lions Gate Films press kit, 2001)