Aeschylus Poulos

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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 .

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