Toronto based Sparks Productions was founded in 1991 by Executive Producer Andy Crosbie. Sparks is one of the industry’s early practitioners of giving clients a wide variety of directorial talent to consider while working alongside trusted local producers and crew.

With transparency being one of the company’s corner stones, Sparks has developed through the decades a network of relationships with directors and other production companies around the world. It has also led to Sparks becoming known as a consistent and reliable provider of production services to foreign producers wanting to execute productions in Canada.

The company’s tenacious dedication to making each production succeed both on an artistic level and from a user experience standpoint, has given Sparks a positive reputation as a hospitable home for talented people and a safe place to nurture great ideas.

For over three decades Sparks Productions and its production teams have produced commercials in every part of Canada and for every type of client.

We pride ourselves on the volume of international work we have serviced on behalf of other production companies from around the world and we welcome the opportunity to become your production office in Canada.

From budgeting, casting, and scouting, to execution and an accurately detailed wrap, Sparks acts in the best interests of the companies that retain our services. Our office and our team become your office and your team. We’re also experts in immigration, travel and accommodation, and talent negotiations. We make available to our clients the preferred status with our vendors which we have acquired from our many years of operation.

Over the past thirty five years Canada has become rich in film resources. Toronto is the 3rd largest production center in North America and our on camera talent pool reflects the city itself as being the most ethnically diverse city in North America outside of New York. The Sparks team has worked in every corner of Canada from chasing icebergs off the coast of Labrador to capturing the life of indigenous people in Northern Alberta to filming a rhino an hour outside Toronto.

Andy Crosbie

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

andy@sparksproductions.com

Carmela Marrese

REPRESENTATION & OPERATIONS

carmela@sparksproductions.com

Pamela Hamilton

SPARKS PHOTOGRAPHERS

info@sparksphotographers.com

Becca Bosloy

OFFICE MANAGER

becca@sparksproductions.com

Jerome Rosales

EDITOR / MEDIA MANAGER

jerome@sparksproductions.com

PHONE

416 862 2000

FAX

416 862 8364

219 DUFFERIN ST., UNIT 12A
TORONTO, ONTARIO M6K 3J1, CANADA

Sheldon Candis

WELLS FARGO

Bio

Baltimore native Sheldon Candis is a graduate of the prestigious USC School of Cinematic Arts. Candis’ feature directorial debut LUV was an official selection in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition. Sheldon has also directed the feature length documentary Baltimore Boys for the prestigious ESPN Films banner, Who Will Survive America for the AMC Networks/ Sundance Now Doc Club original series Take 5: Justice in America, When the Lights Are Brightest for Springhill Entertainment and recently, Colin in Black & White (which chronicles the early wonder years of civil rights activist and cultural icon athlete Colin Kaepernick) for Netflix.

Sheldon has been equally prolific in advertising, having directed work for Amazon, Ford, Microsoft, Deloitte, Wells Fargo, Dove, Walmart, Under Armour, and many other clients.

What fascinates Sheldon about directing commercials is “…the idea that you can not only entertain and engage people, but you can also educate. The most important thing isn’t just selling a product, it’s about selling an emotion.”