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.
Maria Markina recently completed her feature debut Harkness, the recipient of the 2021 DOC Institute Breakthrough Rogers CBC Award. Born in Russia, Maria obtained a degree in Directing for Documentary Film from the University of South Wales and studied at the American University in Bulgaria before moving to Canada to complete a Master’s Degree in Documentary Filmmaking at Toronto Metropolitan University. Despite efforts to discredit her graduate film Musya, about the Soviet regime’s WWII crimes, the film was added to Artdoc.media and her short Fight Like a Girl received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the American University in Bulgaria.