Supporting the next rung on your ladder of success.

 

NORTHWAY-FRANK CONSULTING advances your creative, financial and strategic goals through development of iterative and sustainable high-impact initiatives.

Consultation Services include:

  • Support for public and private funding opportunities for

    • Film, Screen, Sound/Audio — both institutional and commercial, operational and project-based

  • Development and project management for art, craft, and B2B (market) activities at screen-based festivals and organizations

  • Support for screen creatives - development/funding for production, festival strategy, marketing + communications, digital + social campaign management and web design

  • New! Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your business or project to attract more organic business leads

  • Supporting sectoral change initiatives in collaboration with industry, creative and cultural partners

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Daniel Northway-Frank is a seasoned cultural professional with 20 years experience in both the commercial and non-profit charitable arts sector. He has built a career on reciprocal passion for positive change in the industry and for audiences, championing partners and people with similar goals and passions.

Recent work development has included digital promotional campaigning for film, festival strategy, successful digital innovation grant proposals, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) integration certification for content distribution strategy.

He is currently a consultant on HOW TO LOSE EVERYTHING a short doc series with the CBC, and was recently the Digital Campaign Producer of Hawkeye Productions / Gloryous Productions’ Queen of the Morning Calm feature by Gloria Ui Young Kim, and Festival Strategy consultant of The Water Walker a short film about Indigenous youth water advocate Autumn Peltier which played at TIFF and DOC NYC in late 2020.

Daniel’s past experience includes coordination and management roles at both commercial and non-profit companies such as Technicolor, Hot Docs, TIFF and most recently as Institute Director at imagineNATIVE. In his 10+ years at the imagineNATIVE, he oversaw all aspects of year-round professional development programming including the imagineNATIVE Festival’s Industry Days , the NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema initiative with the Berlinale / European Film Market and managing a portfolio of over 25 industry partnerships for fiscal/in-kind sponsorship support. As well, he developed and executed both creative and market initiatives, most recently the ground-breaking 2167: Indigenous Storytelling in VR, the first Indigenous Feature Futures Forum and aggregated development, funding support and managed execution-to-dissemination of two industry reports including On Screen Protocols & Pathways: A Media Production Guide to Working with Indigenous Canadian Communities, Cultures, Concepts & Stories, a ground-breaking new initiative that is a touchstone for informed and collaborative media production practices with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadian creators and communities.

He has worked in community on the board of Work in Culture, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers (LIFT), sat on the board of Pleasure Dome, and juried for Telefilm, Canada Media Fund, TIFF Talent Lab, CBC’s Short Film Face-Off and Worldwide Shorts Film Festival.

He produced, art directed and co-edited the award-winning short film Ruptura (2014) which played at festivals in Canada.

He graduated with a BAA in Film Studies from Ryerson’s School of Image Arts.

He is also a gay father, a political leftist and a lover of Indigenous film, biking, Star Trek and Margaret Atwood novels.