Ed Barreveld

Producer

Storyline Entertainment

Toronto, Canada

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Emmy Award-winning producer creating documentaries that explore underexposed places and perspectives in society and culture.

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Storyline Entertainment

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Toronto, Canada

Storyline Entertainment is a documentary film and television production company, based in Toronto, Canada, that has been creating award-winning films since 2000. Working with both established and emerging filmmakers, partnering with Canadian and international broadcasters, and supported by both government and private funders, Storyline aims to provoke discussion and action, stir emotion and awareness, and entertain global audiences. In 2024, Queen of the Deuce, a Canada-Greece co-production which premiered at DOC NYC, was awarded Best Documentary by the Hellenic Film Academy and was nominated for a Best Biography and Arts Program Canadian Screen Award. COVEN, which premiered at Hot Docs, was a 2024 Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography in a Feature Documentary. Storyline films have received many other awards, including an Emmy for Herman’s House. Current productions are Maria Markina’s Harkness (completed 2024), Howard Goldstein’s Dr. B3: The Soul of the Music (post production), A Tribute to Doc (post-production), the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film runner up, Nicole London’s The Disappearance of Miss Scott and Aisha Jamal’s The Theft. Storyline has several other films in development. he Face of Anonymous was nominated for a 2022 Canadian Screen Award Best Documentary Award, Dolphin Man (2018), a Canada-France-Greece coproduction, won Best Documentary and Best Emerging Director from the Hellenic Film Academy. Both Dolphin Man and the Nigeria-set, Hot Docs-premiering feature Take Light received Canadian Screen Award nominations in 2019. Canadian Screen Award winner League of Exotique Dancers opened Hot Docs 2016 and _Shadow Girl_—a Chile-Canada coproduction was voted best documentary by the Chilean Critics Association. 2012’s The World Before Her won Best Feature Documentary at Tribeca, Best Canadian Film at Hot Docs and was an Emmy Award nominee. Herman’s House (about America's longest serving solitary confinement prisoner) won an Emmy Award and was a triple Canadian Screen Award nominee. Storyline’s titles have reached global audiences via broadcasters such as CBC, PBS, Discovery, NatGeo, Sky UK, ZDF, ARTE, Yes-DBS, SVT, and WOWOW; screened at festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Full Frame, and True/False; won top awards at the Tribeca and Hot Docs festivals; and received Emmy, Gemini, Webby, and Canadian Screen Awards wins and nominations.

About me

Storyline Entertainment CEO and Emmy Award-winning producer Ed Barreveld is one of Canada’s top independent documentary-film professionals. A hands-on producer with 35+ years’ experience in both financing and the field, Barreveld brings together Canadian and international storytellers, investors, and partners on documentaries that explore underexposed places and perspectives in society and culture.

His award-winning films Herman’s House, The World Before Her, and Tiger Spirit take audiences to a solitary confinement cell in Louisiana’s “Angola” prison, to a Hindu nationalist camp for teenage girls, and across the Korean Demilitarized Zone for a family reunion.

Barreveld recently completed production on Queen of the Deuce, COVEN, and Harkness. Currently in production are Dr. B3 – The Soul of the Music about legendary jazz master Dr. Lonnie Smith, A Tribute to Doc, a concert film, Ken Burns Prize runner up The Disappearance of Miss Scott, and The Theft. He also has several projects in various stages of development.

Queen of the Deuce and COVEN are 2024 Canadian Screen Award nominees. Other recent completed films include the Canadian Screen Award nominated The Face of Anonymous, the Nigeria-set activist-fueled Take Light, Ontario gangster-redemption tale Prison Pump, apocalyptic short Thirty Eight Minutes and the animated short Love Letters from Everest.

In 2016, Barneveld’s creative vision, entrepreneurship, and mentorship were recognized with the Don Haig Award. That year, Storyline’s League of Exotique Dancers, an exploration of feminism through the stories of burlesque legends, opened Hot Docs. The documentary short Frame 394, which Barreveld executive produced, was shortlisted for a 2017 Academy Award nomination.

Born in Rotterdam, Barreveld moved to Canada in his early twenties and spent the first 10 years of his film career as the unit administrator of the National Film Board of Canada’s Ontario studio in Toronto.

After four years traveling the world as a documentary line producer, he cofounded Storyline Entertainment in 2000 for its inaugural release, Gemini nominated Aftermath: The Remnants of War. He became Storyline’s sole principal in 2004.

Barreveld has partnered with producers and investors in Germany, Belgium, Australia, Greece, France, Chile, and the U.S.A. He regularly attends many of the top documentary market events.

Storyline titles have sold internationally, screened at Tribeca, Hot Docs, IDFA, and TIFF, and garnered numerous festival accolades, as well as Emmy, Gemini, and Canadian Screen awards and nominations.

Barreveld is a member of the Documentary Organization of Canada, the International Documentary Association, the Documentary Producers Alliance and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s Documentary Film Committee.

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