Our Team

President

Peter Raymont

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, journalist and writer Peter Raymont has produced and directed over 100 documentaries and TV drama series during his 39-year career. His productions have won over 40 international awards and been screened and broadcast worldwide.

Raymont’s career began at age 21 at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal where, from 1971-78, he worked as an editor, director and producer. In 1979, he moved to Toronto and established his independent film and television production company, Investigative Productions, now operating as White Pine Pictures. He co-partnered the company for many years with his late wife, award-winning filmmaker and author, Lindalee Tracey. Their collaboration resulted in several successful documentary series and specials including the Emmy and Sundance Award-winning “Shake Hands with the Devil” and the hit 38-episode TV drama series “The Border”.

Raymont’s most recent work, “Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould”, co-directed with long-time collaborator Michèle Hozer, premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and has theatrical release in Canada, Australia and USA.

Vice-President

Janice Dawe

Janice Dawe joined White Pine Pictures in 2005 to position the company for growth.  As a key member of the management team Janice takes a leadership role in business development, partner relationships and new media initiatives.  Janice works in a producer capacity on many of White Pine’s documentary and drama productions and is the Executive Producer of the interactive mobile project, City Sonic.  She brings to White Pine over 20 years experience as a freelance independent producer with deep ties to the Canadian production community and as the co-owner of a successful boutique production company specializing in lifestyle production.  She was the co-creator and producer of Harrowsmith Country Life, a CanPro Awarded series that aired on Life Network and The Discovery Channel for 4 seasons.

Head of Finance

Caroline Murphy

As Head of Finance, Caroline oversees the finance and accounting aspects of the company’s development, production, distribution, and corporate undertakings. She provides strategic acumen for diversifying financing plans and building international partners. With her management expertise in the creation, retention, and exploitation of intellectual property, Caroline leads White Pine’s strong financial team to maximize value for a project’s critical and commercial success.

Caroline has held senior financial positions with the industry’s foremost producers assisting in the financial planning and delivery of award winning content to many of the world’s top broadcasters and film distributors. Caroline holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and a CPA from California.

In her spare time, Caroline has returned to U of T to study Literature & the Arts. She loves music and big waves on sandy shores.

Head of Documentary Development

Patrick Reed

Patrick is an award-winning writer, director and producer and a long-time White Pine Pictures collaborator. One of his earliest assignments was working closely with Peter Raymont as researcher and associate producer of the acclaimed documentary Shake Hands With The Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire.

Two years later, Patrick returned to Africa to direct Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope for the CBC’s Nature of Things. His passion for Africa led him back to Rwanda and Somalia with Dr. James Orbinski to direct Triage, a moving exploration of front-line medicine. Triage was invited to screen at the Sundance Film Festival and HotDocs in 2008 where it was an audience favorite, before being broadcast on Global Television.
 In between African sojourns, Patrick wrote and produced Tar Sands: The Selling of Canada, a ratings winner for the CBC and directed Pet Pharm, a doc that casts a suspicious eye on the growing phenomenon of pet pharmaceuticals. Patrick is currently completing a feature documentary The Team, that follows the making of a soap opera in Kenya designed to bridge ethnic divides.

Controller

Candis Buder

Candis joined WP 5 years ago bringing a wealth of varied experience from Atlantis Films and numerous key production accounting positions on film and tv productions.  She has specialized in accounting for this industry for over 20 years.  For WP she set up and managed accounting systems and is responsible for the financial reporting and tax credit filings of the various productions as well as maintaining White Pines corporate records.

New Media, Festival Manager

Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson began at White Pine Pictures soon after finishing his Bachelor of Arts in Communications with Honours at The University of Windsor. Phil has worked in many capacities at White Pine including web management, graphics, festival coordination and marketing and more recently in post-production and rights clearances. Phil was involved in several major documentary releases including the festival roll out of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire where he supported multiple high-profile festival appearances for that film. In between White Pine assignments, Phil worked as an assistant editor with Michèle Hozer on various documentaries, (Triage, Promise to the Dead, Radical Dreamer) and with composer Mark Korven in music rights administration for White Pine’s award-winning drama series, The Border. Most recently, Phil has contributed to the re-launch of White Pine’s website and supervised the re-organization of both digital and physical assets including White Pine’s extensive tape library. Phil is currently applying his solid knowledge of post-production workflow to coordinate deliverables, including master deliveries to broadcasters, while also assisting with stock footage and music clearances.