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FierceLight Films is a partnering of talented individuals committed to changing the world through feature documentary films. Company principals are creative producer Cher Hawrysh and award winning director Velcrow Ripper . Producing films that entertain and enlighten, FierceLight Films is dedicated to harnessing the most effective and innovative methods of storytelling to offer transformative perspectives on the world we live in. We believe in reaching the widest audience possible, and release our films with a powerful combination of traditional film marketing with the latest social networking tools, transforming movies into movements.
 
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DIRECTOR

Velcrow Ripper

Velcrow Ripper
"If anyone can find the silver lining in a mushroom cloud it's this astounding, thoughtful filmmaker."
-National Post
 
"Ripper is the John Lennon of documentary filmmakers." - Michael Markwick, SFU Communications
 
 
 
 

Velcrow Ripper is a lot like his movies -- friendly, hopeful, full of electrifying ideas.

Ripper is an award-winning filmmaker with dozens of films and videos under his belt, including Bones of the Forest and Scared Sacred; the latter was named one of Canada's Top 10 movies of 2004, and won the 2005 Genie (Canadian Academy Award) for best feature documentary. Bones of the Forest, his 1995 environmental meditation,was co-directed with Heather Frise and won nine major film awards, including a Genie for best feature-length documentary and best of the festival at Hot Docs.

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PRODUCER

Cher Hawrysh

Cher Hawrysh Committed to producing media that entertains, educates and expands our sense of self and the world we live in, Cher has played a key role in the production of 100's of hours of independent, studio, newsroom and network productions in Canada, the U.S, the U.K., and Africa.
 
A graduate of Norman Jewison's Prestigious CFC Film Residency Programme in Toronto, Cher attended the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2006, produced renowned visual artists Sheila Pye's dramatic directorial debut Empty Room, and is alumni of the CFTPA International Producer Mentorship Programme.
 
In addition to working as a Filmmaker Mentor for MTV's Staying Alive ~ 48fest during the World Aids Conference, Cher lived in Boulder, Colorado for a year where she ran the media department for Integral Naked, and worked as a freelance Producer for Sounds True.  
 
Additional career highlights include working in London, UK on To Free the Slaves, filming the award-winning documentary Mama June; A Different Perspective on Aids on location in Tanzania, and as Assistant to Peabody Award Winning Executive Producer Mark Carliner, working directly with ABC Television and Sony Pictures Television, and Stephen King on Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
 
Cher was a key force behind the marketing and distribution of Velcrow Ripper's acclaimed feature documentary, ScaredSacred, and is the creative producer and business partner to Velcrow Ripper in FierceLight Films.
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