David Cormican

David Cormican is an Emmy®-nominated producer, film and television taste-maker. He is Founder and President of Fun Republic Pictures (2016), a member of the prestigious International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (where he serves on the nomination committee), the Canadian Media Production Association (where he served on the board from 2011-17), the Producers Guild of America (p.g.a.) where he serves the international committee, and the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC).

Past productions include the International Emmy®-nominated Tokyo Trial for NHK, Between, the Emmy®-nominated The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, ShadowHunters and the Venice TV Award nominee Northern Rescue which bowed at #1 for Netflix. Tulipani, Love, Honour & A Bicycle, from two-time Academy Award® winning director, Mike van Diem, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Selected by The Hollywood Reporter as Next Generation Canada: Class of 2014, Cormican was also recognized by Playback in 2012 as a Top 10 to Watch and again in 2015 as Playback's New Establishment. He received the National Screen Institute's Producer Drama Prize in 2010 and is a graduate of the Erich Pommer Institute's Trans Atlantic Partners programme. In 2016, Cormican received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, MacEwan University's highest honour, where he was recognized for his outstanding achievements in business, arts and culture, lifelong learning and community service.

Additional films include Stranded (Christian Slater), The Tall Man (Jessica Biel) and Faces in the Crowd (Milla Jovovich). Cormican founded the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, where he produced five of the winning short film scripts, including Rusted Pyre, which premiered at the Festival de Cannes and Will, which won Yorkton Film Festival's Best Drama Golden Sheaf.