TV & Film

Solve and Validate Solutions Through Low-Resource Methods Before Building a Product

Matt Panousis, is the Co-Founder & COO at MARZ which stands for Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies. MARZ is an AI-enabled VFX company on a mission to help Hollywood studios push the boundaries, quality, and volume of TV. and has developed an AI platform called lipdub.ai. A lawyer by training and entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of success co-founding and scaling B2B technology start-ups including ACTO (venture-backed by Salesforce Ventures, Resolve Growth Partners and Panache Ventures) and currently Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (venture-backed by Round13 Capital, Rhino Ventures, Harlo Equity Partners and John Cassaday) with a focus on company strategy, product, operations and growth.


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If you know where you want to be it’s so much fun getting there

Jerry Deluca is the executive producer of the upcoming television show Motorcycle Wars: Blood, Sweat & Tears, a motorcycle racing elimination competition of amateurs vs. amateurs, of pros vs. pros, before a heart-racing finale of one amateur racing against one pro for the grand prize. This edge-of-your-seat series features out-of-the-ordinary characters and their stories and is fueled with high stakes and grassroots passion. These people are overcoming challenges right before your eyes, and some will even dare to break the rules while doing whatever it takes to claim victory over their competition. Jerry has a long-time passion for racing and the industry surrounding it and in true entrepreneurial determination has been driven to get this production to the audience he knows is out there waiting!


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Masters of unscripted television content

Two decades ago, MarbleMedia forged into the scripted television space, when there was a plethora of Canadian content being produced and acquired, with grants accessible to help further produce and sell Canadian content.

“What we learned early on, and it’s a simple business practice, but is really to surround ourselves with people that are smarter than us in certain areas.” Mark Bishop.

“There’s such a rich a personal fulfillment and richness and being able to do what you want to do for a living.” Matt Hornburg.

Mark Bishop and Matt Hornburg, Co-CEO’s of MarbleMedia started up twenty years ago. Now, with Canadian TV deals being a fraction of what they used to be. Marblemedia has had to pivot and had been onboarding international partners in order to get their content made. In this shift, they have also expanded their repertoire of productions and have quickly become masters of unscripted television content, with global smash hits like Netflix’s glass blowing competition Blown Away, and restaurant makeover TV series, Restaurants on the Edge.

Matt Hornburg is Co-CEO/ Partner and Executive Producer at MarbleMedia. In addition to the strategic direction across the company, Matt leads creative development and production for the company’s original TV and Interactive divisions, including its most recent push into primetime with the launch of new scripted and unscripted division,

Mark Bishop is Co-CEO and Partner at MarbleMedia. An accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate, Mark, alongside co-founder Matt Hornburg, has grown MarbleMedia into one of Canada’s leading independent production, distribution and digital media companies.

The New Brunswick Film Industry is Going Strong!

Greg Hemmings is an entrepreneur/filmmaker out of Saint John New Brunswick. His film companies, Hemmings House and Hemmings Films are certified B Corps and have focused their attention on making positive social and environmental change through film storytelling. Their latest TV series is called Race Against The Tide and is currently airing on CBC Thursday nights at 8pm.


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