Biography

Rebeka Herron is an award winning mixed race Latina filmmaker. She is an alumna of Capilano University's Motion Picture Program, and the Cineplex Entertainment Film Program Producers' Lab at the Canadian Film Centre. She is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, and the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA). Rebeka worked in development for Brightlight Pictures before transitioning to the story department on several lifestyle and reality programs, including the award-winning series Ice Pilots NWT, directed and produced the original fitness series Kiss My Incoming Abs (Novus TV), and VR Wonders of the World with Perspective Films, where she was the Virtual Reality Producer. She had previously produced several award winning short films, The Undertaker's Son was programmed as part of Telefilm Canada's Not Short On Talent showcase at Cannes, and has won several awards including Best Narrative Short at the Yorkton Film Festival. Rebeka's latest project about the sport ringette was chosen out of 9,000 submissions to be developed by CBC through their Covid-19 CBC Relief Fund.

Rebeka works as a freelance Line Producer at Taqqut Productions, an Inuit production company specializing in animation and children's content. She line produced and production managed the animated children's series Ukaliq and Kalla; Shaman's Apprentice, a stop-motion project directed by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk; and Unnikkatuat, a four part documentary series following the creation of a multimedia circus performance that was shot in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Yellowknife, and Igloolik, Nunavut.

Herron owns the production company Rusty Halo Productions, co-owns 180 Sisterhood Productions (both companies based out of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario), and is co-founder and co-director of the Sault Film Festival.
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