Haydn Wazelle – President/Producer

Haydn is a Vancouver-based media & entertainment producer and co-founder of ZedDrive.ca. He is currently interim chair of the Black Screen Office (BSO), and sits on the national boards of the Canadian Independent Screen Fund (CISF), and the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), as well as the Motion Picture Production Industry Assoc. of BC (MPPIA).

Haydn has worked producer-side on 5 international co-productions, 2 inter-provincial co-productions, 10 feature films, 2 TV series, 4 documentaries, and 2 video games. He is proficient in navigating the BC film & TV & Interactive digital media production space and tax credit systems.

Haydn produced the feature films ALONE (2010), HELLO DESTROYER (2016) and VIOLENTIA (2018), the CBC documentary DADS (2013), and the critically acclaimed video game EON ALTAR (2016). He is currently executive producing a stop-motion animated film for the NFB called WHEETAGO WAR (2023).

Haydn is the co-founder and CEO at ZedDrive, a web-based dailies/cuts/screeners software platform built to help media production teams seamlessly collaborate locally and remotely during all phases of a production’s life cycle. The company has managed productions across the globe, including the dailies & cuts for many Netflix, CBC, Bron, Hulu and Bell Media productions.

Haydn ‘does not like’ long walks at sunset, cracks up at his headshot, and LOVES Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alfa Romeo’s, and jumping in puddles or the closest ocean with his wife and two amazing daughters.

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Photo taken by Kevan Funk

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