Pasha Patriki | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Cinematographer, director, film producer |
Years active | 2000–present |
Notable work | Gridlocked Black Water V/H/S/94 Brooklyn 45 You Gotta Believe (film) Deathstalker |
Website | 9-light |
Pasha Patriki is a Canadian film producer, cinematographer, and film director. He was director of photography (also commonly referred to as 'Cinematographer") on the films like Please Kill Mr. Know It All , [1] Gridlocked , [2] [3] The Sound . [4] ,and the 2016 film Anonymous (also known as Hacker), noted for its polished and crisp visuals. [5] [6] Patriki is a founder of a film production & financing company, 9 Light Entertainment, which has executive-produced a number of films including Spare Parts and Broken Mile. [7] [8]
In January 2017, Patriki won the Best Cinematography award in the TV Drama category of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards for his work on the feature film Gridlocked, [9] [10] starring Dominic Purcell. Also in 2017, he directed as well was the cinematographer on Black Water , an action film starring Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme, released in 2018. [11] In September 2017, Patriki's 9 Light Entertainment partnered with a Canadian film sales and distribution firm Raven Banner Entertainment to form Hangar 18 Media, a film development and production company. [12] Since 2017, under Hangar 18 Media brand Patriki produced a number of films, notably Spare Parts (directed by Andrew Thomas Hunt), [13] Nail In The Coffin: The Fall and Rise of Vampiro, a documentary about a wrestler called Vampiro, directed by Michael Paszt, [14] V/H/S/94, Brooklyn 45, The Fight Machine, The Breach, and Sorry About the Demon. In 2023, Pasha Patriki produced Frankie Freako, the film directed by Steven Kostanski. [15] In the same year Pasha Patriki directed the TV movie The Threat Next Door [16] which premiered on Tubi, and worked as a Canadian producer on You Gotta Believe (film), the American sports film directed by Ty Roberts and starring Luke Wilson, Greg Kinnear, Sarah Gadon and Molly Parker. [16] Also in 2023 Slash (musician), Michael Paszt, James Fler, Andrew T. Hunt and Rodrigo Gudiño Pasha Patriki launched the horror production company BerserkerGang. [17] In 2024 BerserkerGang company announced production of Deathstalker, a reboot of 1983 Roger Corman-produced Deathstalker (1983 film), written and directed by Steven Kostanski, executive produced by Slash (musician) and produced by Pasha Patriki and Michael Paszt, and starring Daniel Bernhardt. [18]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2011 | The Collapsed | Cinematographer | [19] |
2011 | Kenneyville | Cinematographer | [20] |
2012 | The Great Chameleon | Cinematographer | [20] |
2012 | Please Kill Mr. Know It All | Cinematographer | [1] |
2013 | Separation | Cinematographer | [20] |
2014 | Somnolence | Cinematographer | [20] |
2014 | The Christmas Switch | Cinematographer | [21] |
2015 | Gridlocked | Cinematographer | Winner in TV Drama category of the 2017 Canadian Society of Cinematographers [2] [9] [10] |
2015 | Bigfoot and the Burtons | Cinematographer | [22] |
2016 | Hacker (also known as Anonymous) | Cinematographer | [5] |
2016 | Broken Mile | Executive producer | [7] [8] |
2017 | The Sound | Cinematographer | [4] |
2018 | Black Water | Director, Cinematographer, Producer | [11] [23] [24] [25] |
2018 | Lifechanger | Executive Producer | [26] |
2019 | Isabelle | Cinematographer, Executive Producer | [27] |
2019 | Spare Parts | Producer, Cinematographer | [28] |
2015 | Money Plane | Cinematographer | [29] |
2017 | The Sound | Cinematographer | [30] |
2020 | Nail In The Coffin: The Fall And Rise of Vampiro | Producer, Cinematographer | |
2021 | V/H/S/94 | Producer | [31] |
2022 | The Fight Machine | Producer | [32] |
2022 | The Breach | Producer | [33] |
2022 | Sorry About the Demon | Producer | [34] |
2023 | The Threat Next Door | Director | [35] |
2023 | Brooklyn 45 | Producer | [36] |
2024 | You Gotta Believe (film) | Producer, VFX Supervisor | [16] [37] |
2024 | Frankie Freako | Producer | [15] |
TBA | Deathstalker | Producer | [18] |
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