Mariah Owen
Nominated for the award: Film & Television and Digital Arts
Company: GTE PRODUCTIONS
Position: Founder
Biography: Mariah Owen is an award-winning actor, filmmaker, cartoonist and entrepreneur who founded her Webby-honoree, production company GTE Productions, at the age of 21, and has had films play at some of today's top festivals; SXSW, Sitges, Cannes & can be found on Amazon, Netflix, CBC & More.
Most recently, her first project as a writer, director, producer and star titled Disconnected premiered on CBC TV and now streams on CBC Gem. Up next for Mariah is Scrambled, an indie comedy set to premiere at SXSW 2023, written/directed by and starring frequent collaborator, Leah McKendrick with Clancy Brown, Ego Nwodim, Andrew Santino, June Diane Raphael & Yvonne Strrahovski. The film is currently in post and was just bought globally by Lionsgate. She starred opposite Eric Roberts in Pamela & Ivy, the Poison Ivy Origin Story, which she also co-created. Owen’s films have played at massive festivals around the world such as SXSW, Sitges, Cannes and can be found on Amazon, Apple, CBC & Netflix. Commercially, she’s created content for massive brands including Marvel, Pandora, NBA, EA Sports, Scotiabank & more. She’s a recipient of the IPF Producer Bursary for 2020/2021 Banff World Media Festival and was the producer on Underpaint, one of 7 films selected by Telefilm’s Not Short on Talent 2022 showcase at Cannes Film Festival. She is currently in development for a new comedy at CBC as well as one at New Metric Media, is in post on 3 features, and a second short Memory Lane, in which she wrote, directed, produced and stars in across from Kym Wyatt McKenzie. When not making movies, she can be found hanging with her rescue dog, Mammoth. Actually, even when making movies.
Her cartoons can be found online and in select shops across Canada, and most recently are featured in The All Pets Edition and Coloring Canines, both coloring books created in support of Front Street Animal Shelter in California. To connect online: @mariahowen