I Will Not Starve

Umberto Spinazzola is an Italian director who got his start directing commercials and music videos. His first feature film, Cous Cous (1996), was a finalist at the Italian Golden Globes for Best First Feature and Best Soundtrack. His second feature film, L'ultimo crodino (2010), was inspired by the theft of the body of banker Enrico Cuccia. Since 2007, he has been the director of the cult TV show Masterchef Italia. The program obtained the absolute audience record for SKY in 2016. He also directs the developments Junior Masterchef, Masterchef Celebrity and Masterchef All Stars.

In 2004, Alessandro Borrelli founded La Sarraz Pictures with which he has produced more than 25 fiction films, creative documentaries and animation films; which have been presented and awarded in prestigious international festivals and distributed in Italy and abroad. Since 2011 he is a member of ACE (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen). The European Film Promotion has selected him to participate in the Cannes Film Festival in the section "Producers on the move 2012" for Italy. Since 2012, he is a member of the EFA (European Film Academy).

Paul Cadieux is one of Canada’s leading and most active film and television producers. Among numerous other accolades, he has won a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for the two-time Oscar‑nominated Les Triplettes de Belleville (Cannes Film Festival).

In his more than three decades as a producer, co-producer, executive producer and distributor, Paul has often preferred to operate out of the limelight while remaining centrally involved in dozens of major Canadian and international projects ranging from children’s animation series, thriller features films, romantic comedies, travel shows, reality programming, international co-productions, feature documentaries and TV series in both English and French.

Through his umbrellas, Megafun Productions Inc. and Filmoption International Inc., along with his extensive in-house equipment rental company and state-of-the-art post-production facilities, Paul has long prided himself on being well-positioned to be able to have a significant impact on projects he feels are both creatively and commercially viable and to provide the missing elements to advance a worthy production.

Among his many award-winning productions, we can find Danae Elon’s P.S. Jerusalem (TIFF and Berlin 2015), Shimon Dotan’s The Settlers (Sundance 2016) and Left Behind America for PBS/Frontline, Advocate and GAZA, both selected at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, as well as Ido Mizrahy’s The Longest Goodbye (Sundance 2023) and Tünde Skovrán’s Who I Am Not (SXSW 2023).

Anyone looking for a pattern in Paul Cadieux’s varied production and distribution work will invariably note that quality, high production value, respecting budgets and matching the marketplace’s needs are consistent qualities of his overall creative and commercial output.

In a field where the dual elements of creative passion and experienced production know-how almost always go hand-in-hand, Paul Cadieux brings a wealth of both to any and all productions he puts his full commitment, heart, experience and resources behind.