Julian is an award winning actor, writer, showrunner, and producer currently based in Toronto. He co-wrote, co-produced and starred in the indie holiday coming of age feature film NEW YEAR shot in ten days on a shoestring budget which went on to win awards at the Clearwater Film Festival in Florida. It is released through The Orchard and you can now find it on itunes or Amazon.

He is also the co-creator and showrunner of the IPF-OMDC funded digital dramedy WHATEVER, LINDA. It has most recently been nominated for a 2014 Digi Award and has been an official selection of seven festivals, coming home with five awards including Raindance’s Best New Discovery For Writing (along with Hannah Cheesman) Best Actor, Best Production Design, ITV Festival’s Best New Drama and Miami Web Fest’s Best Of The Fest.

He is also the writer and director of the short comedy MENAGE A QUOI? as part of the Blue Flame Collective under the banner of his production company Shoot Dat S**t Films.

With an aesthetic shaped by both Lars Von Trier and Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Matt Eastman is the resident director at Touchpoint Films in Toronto. Matt has directed campaigns for Burger King, Tiger Beer, and Skittles, and his work has been featured in Creativity, FastCoCreate, FWA Site of the Day, and Google’s Creative Sandbox. For Touchpoint and Emmy-winning studio Secret Location, he helmed the darkly comic digital series Whatever, Linda, which is up for three Canadian Screen Awards, as well as a Best Directing nomination at this year’s Independent Series Awards. He’s been everywhere from Singapore to Santiago, directing pop stars in Shanghai, coffee klatch in Kiev, and skateboarding skunks in Jakarta. In his spare time, he is writing a screenplay about rap music and Jesus.