Ilana Frank

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Ilana Frank
Nationality Canadian
OccupationFilm producer

Ilana C. Frank is a Canadian film and television producer and founder of ICF Films (formerly Thump Inc.), best known for producing the award-winning series The Eleventh Hour , Rookie Blue , and Saving Hope . [1] [2] [3] The Eleventh Hour, which she executively produced and co-created, won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Dramatic Series in 2003 and 2005, and was nominated for over 30 Gemini Awards, winning in all major categories.

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Life and career

Frank has a background in theater. [4] Frank worked for several years producing theatrical plays before steering her career towards film and television producing. In the mid-1980s she joined Norstar Entertainment, a Toronto-based production and distribution company, as VP of Production, where she oversaw the work on over 20 feature films. [5] She met her ex-husband, actor Maury Chaykin, in 1974 on the set of a play called Tony's Woman, though they divorced in 1993. [6] She received an award from the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) in 2007 for mentoring Canadian talent. [7]

Filmography as producer

Television credits

Motion picture credits

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