Pure Pwnage

Toronto producer Jarett Cale is a writer, co-creator and star of the new media phenomenon Pure Pwnage, and a director of ROFLMAO Productions. After an early career as a standup comedian in Calgary, Alberta, Cale founded and developed ROFLMAO along with Geoff Lapaire. Together, they have been building the Pure Pwnage brand and Internet and web properties for the past 5 years, and turned ROFLMAO into a leading producer of dramatic programming for the Internet audience.

Cale is the Actor/Writer/Creator/Producer of the half-hour Internet series Pure Pwnage and the Executive Producer of Pro at Cooking, a short form Internet series, which are both ROFLMAO Productions.

Toronto producer Geoff Lapaire is a writer and co-creator of the new media phenomenon Pure Pwnage, and a shareholder of ROFLMAO Productions. After completing a Masters in physics at the University of Toronto, Lapaire founded and developed ROFLMAO along with Jarett Cale. Together, they have been building the Pure Pwnage brand and Internet and web properties for the past 5 years, and turned ROFLMAO into a leading producer of dramatic programming for the Internet audience.

Lapaire is the Actor/Writer/Creator/Producer of the half hour internet series Pure Pwnage and the Executive Producer of Pro at Cooking, a short form internet television series, which are both ROFLMAO Productions.

is a Canadian entertainment writer and producer. Harvie grew up in Ottawa and graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film and literature. One of the original creators of The Tom Green Show in its original Canadian community channel run, Harvie continued to write and produce the show on The Comedy Network from 1996 to 1998 and on MTV from 1999 through 2003. In 2001, Harvie co-wrote the film Freddy Got Fingered. His special MTV documentary, The Tom Green Cancer Special, was named by Time Magazine as "one of the ten best TV programs of the year" in 2001. The show was also nominated for a Peabody Award.
Harvie has worked briefly on numerous other comedy shows and pilots including WB's The Skateboard Show, VH1's Hollywood Tonight and NBC's Saturday Night Live.

From 2004 to 2007 Harvie was the executive producer of Night Calls and all other live programming for Playboy TV. In 2008, Derek Harvie was co-writer and executive producer of the half-hour sitcom Testees on FX Networks in the US and on Showcase in Canada. Both Harvie and co-writer Kenny Hotz have received 2009 Gemini Award nominations (Canadian Emmy) for Best Comedy Writing. Testees is also nominated for Best Comedy Series and Best Directing. In 2008 & 2009, Derek Harvie was also a contributing writer for Kenny vs. Spenny which airs on Showcase in Canada and Comedy Central in the US.

Toronto based producer Davin Trent Lengyel is a co-producer of Pure Pwnage, and has been working with Geoff and Jarett on the web series, primarily on expanded universe material, since 2005. After completing four degrees, including degrees in Engineering and Law, Davin joined ROFLMAO Productions to produce dramatic programming for an Internet audience and has been with the crew ever since.

Davin produced the spin-off series Pro at Cooking (www.proatcooking.com) and the upcoming Brotherhood of Leet (www.8bitwars.com). Outside of the Pure Pwnage universe, Davin produced the award winning short, Wires and Words (Winner Toronto Filmi South Asian Film Festival Short Film Category, 2008; 2nd Prize RCI Migrations International Short Film Festival, 2008)

is a founding partner of Duopoly, an independent production company based in New York and Toronto. Tait is a veteran of the independent film and television industries in Canada and the US. Prior to launching Duopoly, Tait was President and Chief Operating Officer of Salter Street Films, a television production and distribution company that she took public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1997. Tait was responsible for Salter Streets successful bid for digital broadcasting licenses including the Independent Film Channel Canada, and oversaw the sale of the company to Alliance Atlantis Communications in 2001. Programs produced during Taits tenure include Michael Moores The Awful Truth and Bowling For Columbine, Lexx, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Through Duopoly Canada, Tait has also served as Executive Producer to a variety of projects including 65 episodes of the CBCs animation series, Chilly Beach (a property originally created on the Internet); Shania, a TV movie also for the CBC; and Confessions Of An Innocent Man: The William Sampson Story, a non-fiction film for CTV and NFB. In 2006, Tait founded www.ithentic.com which is headquartered in Toronto and is an online and mobile video content production and distribution company. Tait serves as Chairman of iThentic and is actively involved in the development and production of its slate of original web properties including Mobile Stories, The World of Bruce McCall, and Green Minutes.

Tait began her career in cultural policy in the federal government, at Telefilm Canada and as Canadas Cultural Attach to France. She then ran the Independent Feature Project in New York for 6 years, overseeing during her tenure, the creation of the Gotham Awards, the No Borders co-production market, Script to Screen and many other programs to promote American independent film talent. She has served as a Director of two of Canadas most successful public companies ALIANT Inc. and CHUM Ltd and currently serves as a Director of the Canadian Board of E1 Entertainment and the Advisory Board of Paperny Films.

Toronto filmmaker Ron Mann is one of Canada's foremost documentary filmmakers. Mann established his international reputation while in his twenties with a series of award-winning theatrical documentaries. His first feature, Imagine the Sound (1981) (Best Documentary, Chicago Film Festival) brings together, in interviews and performance, the prime innovators of the once-controversial free jazz movement of the 60's. Poetry in Motion (1982) (Best Documentary, Chicago Film Festival), continues the tradition with a frenetically paced performance marathon of 24 talents of the contemporary poetry scene, including such alternative cultural luminaries as Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs and John Cage. Third in the series, Comic Book Confidential (1988) (Genie, Best Feature Length Documentary; Blue Ribbon Award, American Film and Video Awards) combines a history of the comic book with a look at the work of 23 of the art form's most respected practitioners, including Will Eisner, Bill Gaines, Lynda Barry and Robert Crumb.

Some of Manns more recent work includes Know Your Mushrooms (2008), a feature documentary about mushrooms; Tales of the Rat Fink (2006), a wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed Big Daddy Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, monster T-shirts and Rat Fink; Blue Rodeo in Stereovision (2006), a TV special celebrating 20 years of Canadas foremost roots-rock band Blue Rodeo, featuring a reunion concert with the original 5 members (Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman and Cleave Anderson); and Go Further (2003), which follows actor and activist Woody Harrelson as he takes to the open road on his "Simple Organic Living Tour." Go Further was first runner-up for the Peoples Choice Award at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival.

Some of Manns other works include Twist (1992), which mixes interviews with rare and often hilarious archival footage to chronicle the evolution of rock and roll dance. More than just a "rockumentary," Twist is ultimately a movie about the changes experienced by the baby-boom generation; Dream Tower (1994) a portrait of Toronto's infamous Rochdale College: an experimental living environment that came to symbolize the best and the worst of what the 60's had to offer; and Grass (1999) (Genie Award for Best Documentary) presents a humorous and surprisingly balanced history of recreational marijuana use in the late 20th century.