Colli Christante is a creative producer, journalist, interviewer, host, writer, researcher and educator. Colli has a Masters degree in Communications from Santa Cruz University, a Journalism degree from Ryerson, as well as certifications in Advanced Television production (BCIT) and Writing, Marketing, Communications and Public Relations (Simon Fraser University). Colli has worked for CTV National as a story conceptualist, researcher and field producer and as a producer for Canada AM. Eastern Canadian television viewers remember colli as the News Anchor at Cable 23 for CHCH in Hamilton and as host of Live Younger, a popular, weekly health and wellness show. Colli's most recent hosting experience was as talk show moderator for the pilot program Mystical Journeys which Colli co-produced with Mystical Enterprises. The TV Pilot demo for Owning the Zone which Colli created/co-produced/hosted is available for viewing on youtube at collitalks.
"Colli K. Christante is the most compelling, stimulating and charismatic interviewer with whom I have ever had the pleasure of working. She had really done her homework and the depth of her questions propelled our talk together into surprising areas. I found myself thinking about and talking about issues that I had never even approached in interviews before. Colli has a unique, disarming and totally charming way of getting to the heart of the matter and I enjoyed myself immensely. After seeing the tape of the interview, I felt and still feel that Colli is the best interviewer that I have ever experienced. "Stephen Simon - veteran Hollywood producer of 'What Dreams May Come', 'Somewhere in Time', 'Indigo Children', 'Conversations with God' - Spiritual Cinema Group.
Colli is an internationally recognized Peak Performance and Achievement Coach, communication expert, specialized kinesiologist and educator. In the business world, Colli is a popular presenter, an inspiring teacher, creative muse, an innovative corporate trainer everyone wants on their administrative team. Some of the corporations that Colli has designed and facilitated programs include CFSA, KPMG, RBC, Soccer Quest and more. Advanced writing students at the Vancouver Film School enjoyed Colli's communication courses The Art and Tool of the Pitch in preparation for the professional production world and employees at Electronic Arts University gained valuable insights through Colli's course Communication in the Arts. Colli was one of the main coaches for the Flash Forward seminar out of Los Angeles held in Vancouver through Women in Film and Video.
Colli is Jay Semko's exclusive artist manager and partner. Together with their combination of extensive knowledge and experience in the world of music, film and television, Colli and Jay have formed the production company "Inner Expression Productions and Development Group Inc." based in Saskatchewan, and look forward to developing their new creative adventures.
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Jay Semko is an award winning Canadian composer, songwriter, performer and voiceover artist. Jay has worked as music composer for numerous film and television productions, including one of Canada's most successful internationally syndicated TV series, "Due South". Due South made history as the first Canadian-made dramatic television series to debut and air during primetime on a major network in the USA (CBS-TV). 66 episodes were made from 1993-1998, and Jay had the privilege of working under Oscar, Emmy and Gemini Award winning producer/writer/director Paul Haggis, who created Due South. After the first season of Due South, Jay worked under Jeff King and Paul Gross as producers for the remaining seasons of the show. Jay received 2 Gemini Award nominations, with co-composers Jack Lenz and John McCarthy, for his work on Due South - 1995 and 1996 for Best Music Score in a Dramatic Series. Jay won the SMPIA Award (1995) and MMPIA Blizzard Award (1997) for Best Music Score for the television movie "Paris or Somewhere", and has worked with many of the best in the entertainment industry since then, including producer Preter Totorici and director Anson Williams on the 2002 TV series "Body and Soul". In 2013, Jay was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (formerly the Gemini Awards) in the category of Best Original Music for a Non-Fiction Program or Series for his work as music composer on the History Channel television series "Dust Up", and many of Jay's original songs have been placed in film and television productions. Jay is also a voiceover artist and a full ACTRA member (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists), and his voice can be heard on television productions and ads on radio and TV across North America.
Many music fans know Jay as singer, songwriter and bassist with the iconic multi-platinum Canadian rock band the Northern Pikes. The Northern Pikes have sold over a million records during the course of their career, touring across Canada, the USA and Japan, and have shared the stage and recorded with many music legends since their inception in 1984 - Garth Hudson, John Sebastian, Robert Palmer and Peter Frampton to name a few. As a member of the Northern Pikes, Jay was inducted in 2012 into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Jay has 10 solo releases available on Inner Expression Records, an independent label owned by Jay and his partner Colli Christante - in 2011, his album 'Force of Horses' won the SCMA Award for Roots Album of the Year. In 2012 "Sending Love" was nominated for Roots solo Recording of the Year in the Western Canadian Music Awards, and recently 'Flora Vista' won the 2015 SCMA Award for Roots Album of the Year. Jay's music scores, songs, stories and live concerts continue to garner him recognition as one of Canada's most prolific musical talents.
Having worked with many of the finest in the film and television industry on many productions over the course of many years, Jay is now utilizing his experience and skills in a new, exciting capacity with his partner, Colli K. Christante, with the formation of Inner Expression Productions and Development Group Inc. With Colli and Jay's combined experience and expertise in the film and television industry, Inner Expression is poised to utilize their extensive knowledge of music, film and television to move forward in new creative endeavours.
Eliana Guimaraes is a world traveler with extensive experience in corporate training & executive programs. She has studied Marketing geared towards Branded Entertainment, Multicultural Market Niches and New Media project strategies.
Her passion for film lead her to hire a film industry coach to develop a career and her skills as a screenwriter and filmmaker. She has attended several screenwriting courses at AFI, writing for TV with William Rabkin, directing workshops with Judith Weston, and studied Spiritual Cinema under veteran Hollywood producer, Stephen Simon. She has been commissioned to write/direct the supernatural drama 'The Tabor Light' and adapt the period piece 'Lady Deborah Moody' for the screen.
In 2008, she was shortlisted in Paulo Coelho's Film Competition for writing and directing her short film. As an independent filmmaker, she is working as a PMD - producer of marketing & distribution and building a writer/director career, immersed in creating content that can make a difference through thought provoking, universal themes.