Director's CV — Anthony McGrath Tooton (credited as Anthony McGrath Tooton IV)

Documentarian and filmmaker · Hamilton, Ontario · TooTon Communications International · tootonfilms.com · amtooton.com · tootoncommunications.com

Profile. More than 20 years making work across broadcast television, independent documentary and digital storytelling, focused on legacy, resilience, memory and media history. Founder of TooTon Communications International and Tooton Films. Creator of the TooTonCut iPhone filmmaking app, live on the App Store worldwide, including China and the EU.

Selected filmography

• The Art of Resilience: Phoenix from the Flame (in production) — feature documentary, 90 min, for NTV, Canada's Superstation. Director, producer, editor.
• The Ostrich Effect (in development) — documentary on misdiagnosis, housing and the human cost of looking away. Director.
• Tooton's Photography: In The Business Of Making Memories (2021) — documentary, ~41 min, honouring his great-grandfather Anthony Maurice Tooton. Developed after the Sieved.com years, the film was begun for NTV founder Geoff Stirling. Supported by the NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program, with final edit help from Christopher Darlington. Preview to a sold-out audience at The Rooms, St. John's (March 2018). Winner, Best Documentary Short, San Diego Movie Awards 2021.
• At Humour's Edge! (2012) — independent documentary comedy special, 28 min, produced with NTV and supported by the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation (now PictureNL). Broadcast on NTV in March 2012 as the lead-in to Saturday Night Live.
• Juno Awards promotional videos for CARAS (Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) — made in partnership with Hell Creek Entertainment, with Johnny Gardhouse, Scott Rondeau and Darren Frost.
• Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace) — filmed Raine Maida for his solo work.
• Restaurants Are Not Democracies (2006) — documentary, 52 min. Won the Toronto Film School Entrance Scholarship.
• University of Waterloo (Lazaridis) — production work on internal video content for the University, made through Conrad Entertainment Inc. (producer/director Peter Conrad). Used internally; not publicly released.
• Sieved.com — partner, co-creator, producer, director, presenter, actor and editor. Produced more than 100 web videos and live webcasts, well before Flash video was common, building the site with Peter Wilkins, Peter Norman and Jim Lung. The content wing included the series George Street Originals and The Adventures of Buckheimer Stiles. Exclusive interviews with Kiefer Sutherland and The Tragically Hip. Named Yahoo's Website of the Week.
• Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Wigand (Sieved.com) — the tobacco-industry whistleblower whose story became the film The Insider (1999), at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Education and training

• Guildhall School of Music and Drama — satellite study with Ms. Mary Sharrett; Speech & Drama Honours
• Ridley College — graduated OAC; New Boy of the Year
• University of Toronto
• Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Toronto Film School — Entrance Scholarship

Prior NFB support: FAP, Tooton's Photography: In The Business Of Making Memories — completed; no open NFB project.