Ultramagnetic is a Toronto based moving image production company with a focus on documentary and unscripted programming, scripted drama and podcasts. Founded in 1994 by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Andrew Munger.
President | Andrew Munger
Andrew Munger has spent more than three decades producing compelling, award winning content for major brands, including CBC, Hulu, NHK, ARTE, Sky, BBC Starz, TVO, Discovery, History, Bell Media, Super Channel & Corus Entertainment. For five years Andrew was Manager of Television Production for World Vision, Canada’s largest non-profit charity, producing content to support the organization’s development work throughout the global south. Andrew has worked in virtually every aspect of the film and television industry including publicity (TIFF), film critic and journalist (CKLN-FM) and as a movie locations manager on scripted features and television series. Andrew is a graduate of the Ryerson (TMU) University Film Production program (1990).
Development Executive | Adam Benzine
Adam Benzine is a British-Canadian filmmaker, journalist and researcher, based in Toronto.
As a filmmaker, he is known for producing and directing the Academy Award®-nominated HBO documentary Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, which explored the life and work of the iconoclastic French filmmaker; and the hybrid documentary thriller The Curve, which was the first major creative non-fiction feature to examine America’s response to the pandemic.
As a journalist, he has a 20-year career writing for newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and the National Post, as well as publications such as The Walrus, The Independent, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Time Out.
He has a Masters in Journalism from City University London and a BSc in Electronic Engineering from Brunel University London.