Writer-director-producer Jamie Kastner has created an award-winning, internationally acclaimed body of feature documentary work ranging from comic-ironic road movies to cultural essays to crime and political thrillers.

Kastner’s films have played festivals including TIFF, Hot Docs, BFI London, Rotterdam, CPH Dox, Stockholm FF, and Sao Paulo’s Mostra, garnered major media attention in such publications as The New York Times, The Guardian and The Times of London. They have been seen on CBC, TVO, BBC Storyville, ZDF-Arte, Netflix, Amazon, theatrically through Mongrel Media (Canada), Strand Releasing, ScreenMedia (US), Kudokawa (Japan).

Kastner has scripted and is directing the fiction feature adaptation The Skyjacker’s Son, which will be distributed by Mongrel Media in Canada.

As a gun-for-hire he story-edited the CSA-winning (Best Factual Series) debut season of CBC’s long running factual comedy series Still Standing, (Frantic Films) and co-directed the CSA nominated D-Day in 14 Stories(YAP Films).

First hired as a music critic at age 19, Kastner’s print journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun. Prior to making his own documentaries he associate-produced on two films for his uncle, 4-time Emmy winner John Kastner, and produced on various shows on CBC, MuchMusic and TVO, where he also hosted a live pop-culture show. A graduate of University of Toronto’s UC Drama Program, Kastner’s early plays appeared at the Fringe and Summerworks festivals.