Unfair Engagers
ACTRA has identified the following companies as unfair engagers. Protect yourself and do not work for these engagers. If you have any questions, please call your ACTRA Branch.
(As of April 19, 2024)
BRITISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER
- Adam’s Advertising Ltd.
- B.D.F. Productions Ltd.
- Catalena Productions Ltd. (Ian MacLennan)
- Clancy Grass Productions
- Erin Films Ltd. (Harry Cole)
- Fusion Generation Productions Ltd. (R. Paul Dhillon)
- Hal Walters Creative Services
- Hart Productions Inc. (Ralph Scobie)
- Hot Street Productions Ltd. (Christopher Brough)
- Iona Enterprises (Bob Brooks)
- Scene II Productions Inc. (Brian A.T. Shaw)
ALBERTA
CALGARY
- 95454 Canada Limited (Sheila Leyrand)
- Advision K.C. Films and Promotions Ltd (Dieter Kohler) Total Image Productions
- Group 3 Films Ltd.
- Wacko Productions (Wendy Wacko)
- Cinema Star Minutes Muffler
SASKATCHEWAN
REGINA
- Out of the Darkness Productions (Rueben Martell)
- Granicus Films (Bohdan Wowk)
MANITOBA
WINNIPEG
- Boundary Six Limited (Errick F. Willis)
- Centre Street Film Productions (Manitoba) Ltd. (J. William McCaughey)
- K- Tel International Limited
- Westhawk Productions (J. William McCaughey)
ONTARIO
KITCHENER
- Futronics Inc.
- Pageman Productions Inc. (Daniel Turres)
- Active Productions
- Multi-Visual Ltd. (Rolly Desmarais)
- Terra Nova Film Productions Ltd.
- 2362231 Ontario Inc. (Frances Anne Solomon)
- 2444966 Ontario Inc (Jo Marr)
- Active Productions (Ted Gzebb)
- Air Kraft (Paul Marshall)
- Altor Media Corporation (Don Ginsberg)
- Amaranth Productions
- Argosy Films Inc. (Herbert Abramson)
- Avid (Paul Lightfoot)
- Baxter Multi-Media Inc. (William Baxter)
- B.D.F. Productions Ltd.
- Bedford Group, The Bennet Fode
- Black Sea Productions (A. Ochrymovytch)
- Bothanos (Tom Vachliotis)
- Brian McKenna – **Not the ACTRA award-winning Brian McKenna
- Camp Canada
- Canadian Telemedia Productions Ltd. (Ralph Kirchen)
- Canadian Trend Communications
- Cardinal Communications “Commershells”, 260450 Investments
- Communications Centre Inc., The (Keith Elshaw) Communications Tactix (Marco Brandao)
- Corporate Images Marketing and Communication Creative Buffet, The (Tom Vachliotis)
- Crystal Rose Pictures Inc. (Amir Rathaur-Bageria)
- David Ascher Productions Ltd.
- David Brown Advertising Ltd.
- DGP Whistle Productions Inc. (Whitney Brown & David Gross)
- Electric Entertainment (Paul Osborn, “Doctor On Call”)
- Famous Players Film Corporation
- Far Shore (Joyce Weiland, Judy Steed)
- Film & Slide WorkshopPg.
- 4T Productions Inc. (Jennifer Holness)
- F.P.S. Studios (Carl Hodges)
- Fred Melstead Productions
- Generation X (Jim Banks)
- Glen Bonham Productions (Glen Bonham)
- Guerilla High Productions
- Hazelton Motion Pictures Inc. (David Eustace)
- He Never Died (Ontario) Inc. (Adam Shully)
- Healthlink Communications Inc.
- Homeservice Club of Canada
- Hughes Ludlow & Associates Ltd. (David A. Hughes)
- Idomo
- Innovative Images (Greg Hancock)
- Inspiration Pictures Inc. (Martin Julian)
- Inter Global Music
- International Connections Associates
- IPS Recording Studios (John DeNottbeck, Paul Goulet)
- J.R.C. Communications
- JRTA8911 Inc. (Robert Johnston)
- Legend Film Corporation (Daniel E. McLeod)
- Lightscape Productions (Phillip Jackson) Media Corporation
- Milmar Productions Enterprises Ltd
- MJM Productions and M.J. McCurlie Media Inc. (Laurie McCurlie)
- MLG Productions
- Motivideo Productions Inc. (Hugh McCall)
- Movie Partners Inc. (Howard Hurst)
- Musichall Productions (Peter Ingster)
- Nasus Limited
- Norcom Films Co. (Jim Ross aka Enrique Gutirrez)
- Northern Lights (Brad Thrasher, Joy Peterson, Tom Peacock) – **Not to be confused with Northern Lights Communications Group Inc. or Northern Lights Direct Response Television Inc.
- Ontario Limited 1096856 B.C. Productions (Booze Can Productions, Sandy Creighton)
- Panda-Tillicum
- Productions (Nancy McLean, Barry McLean)
- Paradise Films Ltd.
- Paris in New York Productions (Belinda Michel/Belinda Drover)
- Pentcomm (Henry Thompson)
- Personnel Training Services Peter Kiviloo
- Phalanx Group, The (Avi Ben-Yehuda)
- Polygon Media Productions (Walter Soles)
- Quadramedia Management Inc.
- Rai Productions (Ilse Krob) aka Idea Woman aka Action Media
- Realtime Communications (Robert Kirschner)
- Rhino Productions (Interesting Productions Sam Bari)
- Robert Ennis Productions aka Inter Connections (Robert Ennis)
- Scene II Productions Inc. (Brian A.T. Shaw)
- Scherberger Films (Aiken Sherberger)
- Science Communications International (Sci Productions) (Taras Pavlyshyn)
- Seaburg Cosmetics Inc.
- Shannon Advertising (Jim Copeland)
- St. Paul Film Productions
- Strauss & Associates Tele-Marque Systems
- Telestories Entertainment Inc.
- That Commercial Place
- Thesaurus Feature Films Ltd. aka Television Productions Ltd. (William Poulis)
- Third Language Research and Marketing Ltd.
- VC & B Marketing (Tom Vachliotis)
- Video Corporate Reports Inc. (Brian Couch)
- Videocomm Ltd.
- Video Graffiti (Karl Rigelhof)
- Wittman-Richter Film Productions (Peter Wittman, Ota Richter)
- Words & Music Programming Syndicate Inc.
QUEBEC
MONTREAL
- 89995 Canada Ltd.
- 94442 Canada Inc. as: The Lucky Star Productions
- Aries Productions Ltd. (Allan Avrith)
- Boardlords Productions Inc. (Rudy Rupak)
- Bolt Productions (Chuck Smiley)
- Caneuran Films Inc.
- Cine-Sync (Philip Garcia)
- Classic Film Industries (Julian Metzack)
- Consiglio and Associates Inc.
- Decarie and Tanguay
- Dermet Productions (John Vidette)
- DRGN Productions Inc. (Nick Celozzi, Dimitri Logothetis, Michael Yedor)
- Film Three Productions Inc.
- Groupe Sonocam (Michel Fizzano)
- Kay Studios (Earl Kay, Marcel Lehrer) Michel Audy
- Orpheus Films Inc. (Rafael Levey)
- O-Zail Films Inc. (Gordon Sheppard)
- Publicite Dominion Inc.
- Rafal Productions Inc. (Rafal Zielinsky)
- Salon International Voyages
- Shanda Productions (Dan Shannon)
- Spinning Gold LLC and 9388-2132 Quebec Inc. (Neil Dunn and Gary Randall)
- TVA International
- Usine Galaxie Image (Jean Lemieux)
MARITIMES
FREDERICTON, NB
- Trillium Hill Productions / Bruce Dennis of Fredericton
- Zenotropa Real Fiction
UNITED STATES
BURBANK
- Ralph Andrews Productions (Ralph Andrew, Stan Cameron)
- Albert Jay Rosenthal & Co.
- Al Hamel Productions (American Home Productions)
- Apollo Pictures Inc.
- Cinema Seven Productions Limited (Elliott Kastnet)
- Dalrymple Productions
- Edgar J. Sherick Associates Inc.
- Jack Armstrong Productions
- Kolar/Passer Productions
- Major Arts Corporation
- Mayfair Productions Inc.
- New Century Productions Ltd.
- New Visions Pictures
- Perennial Productions Inc.
- R & R Productions Inc. (Leonard Grainger)
- Spiegal-Bergman Films Inc. (Larry Spiegal, Mel Bergman)
- Steve Ammerman Tanbar Inc. (Barry Roberts, Tanya Roberts)
- Winters/Hosen Productions
- Norstar Communications (J. Charles Sterin, President)
- AC & R Advertising
- American Video Productions Inc.
- New Sky Communications (Carl Reynolds)
- Phil Stein Enterprises Ltd.
- Seymour Schorr Productions
- Tilos Productions Inc.
- Give & Take Productions Inc. (Phil Morrison, John Bradshaw)