TOM ROWE - Partner

MATTHEW O'CONNOR | LISA RICHARDSON | TOM ROWE

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’ and more recently executive produced ‘Flash Gordon’, airing on pay service Superchannel in Canada and the Sci Fi Channel in the USA.