Paddy Bickerton is a lawyer with over fifteen years of legal and business affairs experience working exclusively in the entertainment industry, responsible for the legal and business aspects of development and production on projects too numerous to count.Paddy’s history includes a stint at Telefilm Canada as Legal Counsel and Business Analyst where she worked on many different productions (including the critically acclaimed Hard Core Logo), as well as extensive experience working in the private sector.Working with Reunion Pictures’ producers Matthew O’Connor, Tom Rowe and Lisa Richardson, Paddy utilizes her business and legal affairs acumen advising on all aspects of the company’s development and production slate as well as various corporate matters.
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The Team
MATTHEW O'CONNOR - Partner Currently a partner in the production and financing company Reunion Pictures, O’Connor has throughout his career, produced over 1.5 billion dollars worth of production through his various companies. In the 1980s, he formed Metro Pictures International, which produced music videos for 'Long John Baldry', 'Poisoned' and numerous other performing artists. Metro won two West Coast Music Awards for Best Video and went on to produce a feature presentation for The Canadian Pavilion at Expo ’86 in Vancouver, B.C. O’Connor later founded Pacific Motion Pictures (PMP), which became one of Canada’s largest and most respected motion picture companies, producing more than 80 films. PMP later joined forces with other entertainment powerhouses to form Sextant Entertainment Group, a diversified media group in Vancouver B.C. Having produced more than 100 hours of long form television, O’Connor’s projects have garnered numerous award nominations and wins. He received the prestigious Peabody Award for the television movie 'The Baby Dance'. His television movies, miniseries and features have garnered him multiple nominations for Emmy, Golden Globe, Genie (Canadian Oscars) and Gemini awards (Canadian Emmys). In 2003, O’Connor won the Gemini for Best Television Movie or Miniseries for the docudrama '100 Days in the Jungle'. O’Connor has produced films for such major studios as Columbia Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Tri-Star. 'Magic In the Water', a fantasy adventure starring Mark Harmon and Joshua Jackson, won a Genie Award in sound and cinematography. Other films include Kiss The Sky, starring William Petersen and Gary Cole, the comedy thriller Masterminds with a cast headed by Patrick Stewart, the romantic drama Bliss, starring Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee and Terence Stamp, and 'A Boy Called Hate', starring James Caan and Elliott Gould.
LISA RICHARDSON - Partner Lisa began her film career in the 1970s. In the early 1990’s Lisa worked with Pacific Motion Pictures producing films and was VP of Business Affairs where she negotiated and closed all types of production related contracts. Prior to joining Pacific Motion Pictures Lisa was one of the founding partners of western Canada’s leading film payroll and accounting software company, Televector Disc, a company that was acquired by EP Canada in 2003. In 1998 she launched Dogwood Pictures Inc. Lisa, through Dogwood Pictures, developed and produced feature films with such international companies as CLT-UFA International, J&M Entertainment, New Line Cinema and Lions Gate Films. Dogwood Pictures also produced television movies and mini-series for all of the major US networks. In April of 2004 Lisa joined partners Tom Rowe and Matthew O'Connor to form Reunion Pictures. Since 2004, Lisa has produced two seasons of the Showtime and Industry Entertainment series 'Masters of Horror', along with partner Tom Rowe, and also Co-Executive Produced the series 'Masters of Science Fiction' and Executive Produced the television movies, ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ and the sci-fi mini-series ‘Dragonsteel’.TOM ROWE - Partner Tom graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1979 and began working in Vancouver’s nascent film industry. In 1989 he founded Pacific Motion Pictures with partner Matthew O’Connor. Over the next 10 years the company produced 80 Movies for Television and seven theatrical motion pictures, including Canada’s best selling home video title ever, Magic In The Water. The company also received a George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence In Television for 'The Baby Dance'. In 1997 Tom received an Emmy nomination for Best Mini-Series for producing Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. In 1999, PMP was sold to Sextant Entertainment where he produced the 2003 Gemini Best Picture Winner, '100 Days In The Jungle'. He also produced the very funny CGI/puppet show 'Don’t Eat The Neighbours' for YTV and Granada and the very adventurous 'Treks In The Wild World' for OLN and the BBC. He served four years as co-chair of the Minister of Heritages’ Canadian Feature Film Fund Advisory Group. He is chair of the BC Producers Branch of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association as well as serving on its national executive. He serves on the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Foundation Board (his renamed alma mater) and the Gambier Island/Fircom Creek Water Society and Volunteer Fire Department. Since 2004 Tom has produced two seasons of the Showtime TV series ‘Masters of Horror’, executive produced ‘Flash Gordon’ for the pay service Superchannel in Canada and SyFy Channel in the US, and the cult classic ‘Hard Ride to Hell” for the Spike Channel in the US.
PADDY BICKERTON – Business and Legal Affairs
KATY LEW – Finance and Administration Katy Lew has worked at Reunion Pictures since April 2004 handling finance and administration for the company. Katy oversees development, production and corporate finance, production services and tax credit administration for the corporations’ film and television production companies. Prior to working at Reunion, Katy worked on development and production with Lisa Richardson, President of Dogwood Pictures, from April 1999 to April 2004. ROSS REDHEAD - Facilities Ross Redhead has worked for Reunion Pictures since its inception in 2004 and is responsible for all administrative functions including managing the office, media relations, web support and general accounting. Over the past 10 years in Vancouver 's film industry he has enjoyed working on numerous productions including: '10.5', 'The Butterfly Effect' and 'Masters of Horror". |
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