Aeschylus Poulos is a Canadian film producer. He is most noted as a producer of the films My Tree , which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, [1] and Brother , which won the CSA for Best Motion Picture at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. [2]
Formerly associated with Foundry Films, where he was a producer or co-producer of films such as Inescapable , Picture Day and Molly Maxwell , [3] he launched his own shingle, Hawkeye Pictures, in 2015 to executive produce Andrew Cividino's film Sleeping Giant . [4] With Hawkeye, he has been a producer of 22 Chaser , [5] Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies [6] and The Young Arsonists , [7] and executive producer of Natasha , My 90-Year-Old Roommate , Mary Goes Round , Tito , The Long Rider and Queen Tut .
The feature documentary Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe , world premiered at TIFF and went on to win the People’s Choice Documentary Award.
In 2024, Sook-Yin Lee's Paying for It world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform Programme and was also selected as one of TIFF's Canada's Top Ten films of 2024. [8] [9]
The four-part international documentary series Who Owns the World won Best Factual Series at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards. [10]