Biography

Mike Johnston is a Canadian award-winning Producer and co-founder of Studio 104 Entertainment, an independent production company that climbed the Playback's Indie List in 2023 and 2024. He has participated, respectively, in the Documentary Lab and Producer's Lab at the Whistler Film Festival in 2019 and 2021. In 2023, he represented Canada at the European Film Market as a delegate for Telefilm's Canada Producer Without Borders program. He co-produced I'M JUST HERE FOR THE RIOT (VIFF'23), an ESPN '30 for 30' documentary and served as an Associate Producer for THE GRIZZLY TRUTH, a Crave Original documentary. He has produced WILD GOAT SURF (VIFF '23), DELTA DAWN (DOC NYC '24, HOT DOCS '25) and CURL POWER (HOT DOCS '24, VIFF '24), which became Telus' top-performing theatrical release, screening on 73 screens at theatres across Canada. Mike has was nominated for the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award at the 2024 Indiescreen Awards, named one of the Playback Magazine's 10 to Watch, and is a standing member of the Canadian Media Producers Association.
- IMDb mini biography by: Mike Johnston