Our Team
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Partner
A trusted industry veteran with over 40 years of experience in Canadian production finance, Jim is your champion.
In 2003, after seven years with The Completion Guarantors (TCG), he became President of Film Finances Canada guaranteeing over 300 productions during his tenure.
Over the years, he has fostered key relationships with banks, financiers, distributors and broadcasters. These relationships developed from Jim’s proactive and creative leadership in crisis management. Hands-on, he enjoys nothing more than finding an innovative solution to a financing or production problem.
Jim’s experience as a Guarantor honed his problem-solving skills, the perfect complement to his foundation as a number-cruncher. From 1983 to 1996 he was the Controller at Primedia Productions and Production Controller at Atlantis Films along with working on numerous film and television projects as a production accountant.
In 2010, Jim’s legacy company, Complete Production Solutions, carved a niche in the Canadian filmed entertainment industry by remedying a gap in the post production accounting market.
Whether working through complicated financing issues or finding the right production personnel, clients can rely on Jim to Make Good.
Ask Jim about his granddaughter Isla, European Islands, and anything hockey related.
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Partner
For over a decade, Meredith Fowler ran one of Canada’s niche entertainment firms, hands-on producing film and television projects for such clients as Disney, eOne, Hallmark, and Corus Entertainment.
During her tenure as General Manager and Head of Production for Coneybeare Stories Inc., the company produced 52 episodes of the Disney/YTV series Monster Warriors, developed the series MajorityRules (26 episodes) for Teletoon and eOne, and produced the cult-classic feature film Gooby, starring Robbie Coltrane and Eugene Levy.
From there, she was involved in the development and reboot of the Rainbow Brite franchise for Hallmark Entertainment, and the packaging of a slate of family films, Puppy Tales, before launching the financing and production of American Hangman (Netflix, Sony); A critique of the American justice system, starring Donald Sutherland and Vincent Kartheiser.
In 2024, she produced Wilson Coneybeare’s debut novel, A Feast of Wolves, while also branching into digital marketing and brand management.
After becoming foxhole friends during the filming of American Hangman, Meredith joined Jim Sternberg’s company, Complete Production Solutions, with a focus on film finance, business affairs, and production accounting.
Educated at Western University, Meredith began her career in social services with a concentration in experiential facilitation, conflict resolution and mediation, before turning her interest to media. She gained practical hands-on experience with television series for YTV/Corus Entertainment before being hired as a story editor.
Meredith always has her eye on the big picture. When the cameras roll, protect your creative by ending the “do-it-all-myself” mentality – just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Draw those boundaries, create more space, and offload. Let Meredith help you Make Good.
Ask Meredith about complimenting strangers, baking pies, and 70s disaster movies.
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Partner
Tinu is the filmmaker’s financial friend. Not only of necessity, but core principle, he understands that collaboration is the creative process. After six years of financing television for Entertainment One (eOne) he knows the ins, outs and intricacies of tax credits, broadcast licensing, distribution deals, and bank financing. Detail-oriented and grounded, Tinu brings his skills into the online sphere, harnessing opportunities for Canada’s next gen of emerging talent.
He was Supervising Producer for Canesugar Filmworks’ award-winning feature film Akilla’s Escape (CBC, LevelFILM Canada, Vertical USA).
He served as Executive Producer on LaRue Entertainment’s VIFF and Hot Docs winning documentary Someone Lives Here, as well as the comedy series The Dessert (Bell Media Crave), The Amazing Gayl Pile (CBC, NBC Seeso), Bit Playas and True Dating Stories (CBC Gem Originals).
ForSaloon Media a Blue Ant Company he helped finance Life Below Zero (Blue Ant), Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust (Corus History), 911 Kids (CBC documentary Channel), Mummies Alive (Corus History, Smithsonian US), Miracles Decoded (Corus History), Tornado Hunters(Corus CMT) and See No Evil (Investigation Discovery, Canal D).
While at eOne he worked on Canadian and US networkdramas Ransom (Global, CBS), You Me Her (TMN, DirecTV), Saving Hope (CTV, NBC), Bitten (Space, SyFy) and Rookie Blue (Global, ABC).
Tinu holds a physics degree from the University of Calgary and his love of documentaries led him to put his mind for numbers into the business of media. Want to expedite your applications and synergize your pre-production workflow? Tinu will absolutely help you Make Good.
Ask Tinu about Muay Thai, growing herbs, and the philosophy of Seinfeld.
