Early this year TPL delivered a feature documentary film Flashback, about Edmonton’s legendary disco club, to broadcast client TELUS originals. Now Peter is taking the film on the independent film circuit in North America and Europe, and seeking a distribution or streaming deal for the film.

In June Peter will be at the Banff World Media Festival pitching a distribution deal for Flashback, a new home for the travel series Landmarks, and seeking seed financing for his scripted film project 13 Days.

2023 was a huge year for TPL. It marked the company’s first feature film project under the Tangerine banner. Flashback was a challenging and rewarding project, in which Peter provided several services including wrter, director, executive producer, producer, post-production co-ordinator and some-time archival producer (under the watchful eye of Shely Henry).

Among other memorable adventures the company recorded two new disco songs with singer D’orjay and music producer Ian Dillon at the National Music Centre and then cut a 12″ single of the film’s original soundtrack.

The film’s production provided the impetus for the restoration and resurrection of the nightclub’s original neon sign at the Neon Sign Museum in downtown Edmonton. And TPL launched a merchandising website (flashbackdocumentary.ca) and popular instagram (@flashbackdocumentary) to help market the film in a unique and exciting way.

In the spring of 2022 Peter was Story Producer for the first 13 episodes of Finally Caught, a new (26×60) true-crime series produced for A&E by Black Watch Entertainment in Winnipeg and airing in Canada on Super Channel. Peter supervised the story department, managing the writing team and editing scripts for production until his prior commitment to Landmarks called him away.

(Another true-crime series recently produced by Peter for Discovery ID, Killer in Plain Sight (52×30), airs on Amazon Prime.)

In the summer and fall of 2022 Peter shot, wrote and produced Landmarks Season One (5 x 10) for TELUS.

In 2021 TPL provided writer/ producer/ director/ concept creator services for Growing Concerns II, the second season of a light documentary series streaming on TELUS Optik. The series is about advances in farming, ranching and rural and urban food and environmental issues.

In 2020 Peter was Communications and Marketing Director for 4Seasons Transportation Ltd., a company that provides school transport for children with disabilities. There he produced marketing and training videos, assembled a same-day video message bulletin production studio, created and built a unique training bus simulator, and transformed various spaces for corporate social gatherings.

Peter also wrote and directed the first season of Growing Concerns in 2020.

In 2019 Peter wrote and was creative producer of a feature documentary about Formula 1 racer Gilles Villeneuve, filmed in the U.K., France, Italy, Canada and Switzerland. It was broadcast nationally on French CBC in June of 2020.

Peter produced, directed and wrote several projects in Calgary, including a feature documentary about Gilles Villeneuve for CBC Radio Canada; a CTV Special Presentation documentary Yes or No about the Calgary Olympics bid; and a 49-part bilingual series Car Stories / Histoires de Chars, for UNIs TV. He was also top writer/story producer for In Plain Sight (52×30), now airing on Discovery ID and produced by Frantic Films of Winnipeg.

Between 2013 and 2015

Peter worked as a freelance story editor for Vancouver, Winnipeg and Toronto production companies. During this time, he was senior story editor on Emergency, a factual series for Slice TV at Force Four Entertainment; story editor on Polar Bear Town for OLN at Merit Motion Pictures in Winnipeg; story editor on Yukon Gold I and II, and Timber Kings at Paperny Entertainment Inc.; Pyros 2 and Ice Pilots NWT for Omnifilm Entertainment; and supervising story editor on season two of The Liquidator for Anaid Entertainment.