Indivisual Productions
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Indivisual Productions is a boutique production company specializing in innovative lifestyle, reality, comedy and documentary shows. Founded in 1999 by award-winning editor and director Allan Novak (The Newsroom, Codco and Kids in the Hall) Indivisual has now expanded to develop and produce multi-platform and animated content.
Indivisuals maiden series was the award-winning grandmother cooking show Loving Spoonfuls (65 episodes for W Network, seen in 10 countries and on the CBC). Soon after Indivisual created a string of series and specials that included Second Time Around (a dating series for W Network) The Joe Blow Show (pilot for The Comedy Network) and the 90 minute special, The Joke's on Us: 50 Years of CBC Satire, which won Allan a Gemini nomination as best director.
Recently Indivisual produced the innovative hybrid comedy/reality series Punched UP for The Comedy Network and in the same year, Allan teamed up with producer and journalist Ralph Benmergui, to create two spiritual/lifestyle series for VisionTV, 5 Seekers and Guides & Gurus.
Indivisual intends to continue to push the envelope and create unique and high-quality shows with humour, heart and unforgettable characters.
ALLAN NOVAK
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Allan Novak is an executive producer, director, writer and editor for film and television, with a passion for comedy.
In 1999, Allan created the Gemini award-winning Loving Spoonfuls, a beloved docu-comedy series about grandmothers (65 episodes distributed in 4 countries) for W Network. In 2002 he executive produced and directed The Joke's on Us-50 Years of CBC Satire (with host Leslie Nielsen) a highly rated 90-minute special nominated for a Best Direction in a Variety Special Gemini award. The next year Allan exec produced The Joe Blow Show, a Gemini-nominated pilot for The Comedy Network and co-created Second Time Around, a thirteen episode comedy/reality series for W Network.
As a director, Allan's credits include Puppets Who Kill (The Comedy Network), Canada's Worst Handyman (Discovery Channel), My Parent's House (HGTV) and for CBC the legendary CODCO, Comics!, Inside The Newsroom and It's Only Rock and Roll (including the original "Wayne" and "Dieter" sketches with Mike Myers). Other directing credits include CBC's Life and Times, Global's Heart of Courage, comedy with the Second City Main stage and segments for the Gemini and Genie Awards.
As an editor, Allan is considered one of Canada's best. He is responsible for most of Ken Finkleman's internationally lauded television series including: The Newsroom (season one; Gemini award winner- best editing), More Tears, Foolish Heart, Foreign Objects and Married Life (Cable ACE nominee best editing). Other notable editing credits include the premiere season of Kids in the Hall for Broadway Video/HBO/CBC. He continues to consult on post production and edits the occasional Pilot.
Allan has directed numerous series for children and youth including The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon (TVO/PBS), The Elephant Show and Vid Kids (CBC) OWL TV (CTV) Dealing with Drugs (TVO) and Mission Reading (TVO). As a writer, Allan has contributed scripts and story editing to many of the above shows.
In 2006 he created and produced Punched Up, a hybrid comedy-reality series for The Comedy Network and 5 Seekers and Guides and Gurus, two spiritual doc series for VisionTV. In the future, Allan and Indivisual Productions hope to continue to create innovative comedy and inter-genre experiments and branch into animation and multi-platform projects as well.
Allan is well respected in the television industry as an original creative force and is often called on by producers and networks to consult and confer. He is a two-time winner of the Banff I-Pitch award (2004 and 2005) and teaches Producing at the Summer Institute of Film each year. He is married and lives in Toronto but a portion of his heart remains in Winnipeg, where he grew up.
KAREN HAWES
PRODUCER
Karen Hawes is part of a new wave of producers that are springing up from the best possible training ground: the harsh and demanding world of actual industry production. Karen's extensive credits include everything from Commercials and Documentaries to Low Budget Canadian Features and Big Budget Hollywood MOWs and TV Series.
Karen's most recent documentary credits Souvenir of Canada for the NFB, which is premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had a subsequent theatrical release, the thrice Gemini nominated The Four Seasons Mosiac for the CBC, Modern Love, a six part series for W and The Great Polar Bear adventure, a beautiful film about the plight of the polar bear that raises the bar on documentary story telling.
As Line Producer/Production Manager, Karen has garnered vast experience on numerous TV series, including The Gavin Grawford Show, Screech Owls (Shaftesbury/YTV), Exhibit A (Discovery/TLC), Real Kids/Real Adventures (Fireworks/Discovery Kids) and Zoboomafoo (Paragon/PBS). Her credits in long-format drama include Bill Robertson's feature film Apartment Hunting, and the event MOWs Club Land (dir: Saul Rubinek) and Laughter On The 23rd Floor (dir: Richard Benjamin).
Karen is pleased to have joined the Indivisual team and to have contributed to such diverse projects as Seekers, Guides and Gurus for Vision Television and to the hybrid series Punched Up for The Comedy Network.
In addition to working as an in-house Producer, Karen has projects in development that are as varied as the ones she works on; BRAINIACS - a limited series which follows six young scientists to the Intel World Science Fair. STONED STRAIGHT, a docuementary on the recovery from addiction through a illegal hallucinagenic plant called Ibogaine. Produced and directed by Karen, this film is now in post production.
