- September 22, 2023
ABOUT
Cave 7 Productions is an award-winning Toronto-based boutique production company specializing in unique, idiosyncratic feature documentary films. We are established as a distinctive maker of internationally appealing work that has been shown on a raft of broadcasters including: Netflix, Amazon, BBC, ZDF/ARTE, Bravo, Sundance Channel, Canal D, TVO, CBC, Super Channel, VPRO & NPS, SBS, TV2, YLE.
We are proud that our work has achieved quantifiable real world results, including helping win a precedent-setting appeal that reversed an Ontario superior court ruling, and launching a criminal investigation into widespread fraudulent production of and distribution of Indigenous art (There Are No Fakes) and inspire the Innocence Project US to investigate the case of five wrongfully convicted black men (The Skyjacker’s Tale).
Jamie Kastner
Known for such titles as There Are No Fakes, The Skyjacker’s Tale, Secret Disco Revolution and Kike Like Me, Jamie Kastner has carved out a unique voice in a wide range of documentary styles: true crime, political thriller, comic-ironic, presenter-led, actuality, historical and musical. His work has launched at festivals such as TIFF, London and Rotterdam, sold around the world on various platforms, won prizes and resounded with audiences and media alike.
Kastner’s work is always political, but rarely overtly so. He strives to make films that are entertaining first, and then provoke audiences to consider afresh their topic.
Laura Baron Kastner
Laura Baron Kastner is a Toronto-based producer focused on feature docs and factual. In 2019, she produced There Are No Fakes, which premiered at Hot Docs, and was acquired by Mongrel Media for Canadian distribution. Laura was a producer on The Skyjacker’s Tale, a critically acclaimed feature doc which premiered at TIFF’16, is broadcast on Netflix, Super Channel, Canal D and ZDF/Arte, and is distributed by Strand Releasing in the US and C7 INTL internationally. Prior to coming to the world of film production, Laura was a corporate lawyer at a leading Canadian law firm.
