Paul furminger — co-owner, creative director
Paul Furminger got his start at Rainmaker Digital Pictures as a VFX editor on features like I, Robot, Elektra, Firewall, The Da Vinci Code, and Tropic Thunder as well as many TV shows, like The Collector, Stargate: Atlantis and Dead Like Me. He began editing and directing commercials, which eventually led to directing work on Video Game Trailers and Cinematics.
Attracted by the storytelling opportunities as well as the varied wild west approach to creating content for Video Games, Paul directed live action, keyframe animation, motion capture, voice over, motion design, mixed media, and everything in between as he honed his vision for over a decade. During that time, he helmed projects for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Square Enix and Microsoft (to name a few). He also continued to develop as an editor, as supervising editor of the Mortal Kombat Legacy web series and on music videos for groups like Jabbawockeez.
In 2017, Paul worked as a vendor-side Visual Effects Supervisor on season 3 of SyFy's Dark Matter, designing space battles, including the epic series grand finale. In 2018, he began developing and directing projects for Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment and Wind Sun Sky Entertainment. He is the director of episode 2 and episode 6 for Season 1 of Amazon Prime's Invincible, based on the long-running comic series. He was also the series CGI director for the entire first season. Paul is also the series CGI director for the upcoming PsiCops, created for Adult Swim Canada. In 2022, Paul won a Leo Award for Best Direction in an Animated Series for his work on Invincible.
sabrina furminger — co-owner
Sabrina Furminger is a film industry journalist, podcaster, and content creator based in Vancouver. She hosts the YVR Screen Scene Podcast and has written about the film industry for the Westender, the Vancouver Courier, and currently MONTECRISTO Magazine. Sabrina is an in-demand event moderator (Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival; Pacific Screenwriting Program; Women in Film and Television Vancouver; Vancouver International Film Festival) and film festival juror (VIFF, Crazy8s, Run N’ Gun). She won a Women in Film & Television Vancouver Spotlight Award in 2016, and Ma Murray Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018.
Sabrina hosts an occasional feminist film series at Vancity Theatre called Her Stories: Women Call the Shots. In November 2019, she hosted the UBCP/ACTRA Awards Red Carpet – and in November 2020, she hosted and produced the first UBCP/ACTRA Awards Virtual Red Carpet. Sabrina was the only Canadian semi-finalist in iHeartRadio’s international #TheNextGreatPodcast competition for a podcast entitled Cringe, and is currently in production on a documentary web series about the various efforts to dismantle white supremacy in the Vancouver film and television industry (the web series is funded in part by Human Rights Internet).
Steve won — head of studio
Steve Won has been the Head of Studio for Fish Flight Entertainment for just over two years, and he has worked in film or television for more than 20 years in an array of different capacities. He started out performing a number of different roles on set in indie films and commercials until he settled into a career in post/VFX production. He has primarily coordinated, consulted, or VFX produced well over 20 Hollywood feature films both credited and uncredited. This includes films such as Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace, Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurrection, Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok, and Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Furthermore, he has been employed by some of the top VFX studios in the world not only to work on their higher end projects, but also to perform some auxiliary facility roles due to his broad skill set and extensive experience. This includes roles where he has been involved with and/or led a number of different R&D teams to further develop new technologies and to find a way to implement them into active projects that have been instrumental for not only the success of the project at hand, but for many others thereafter. Finally, he has also produced projects in other formats, such as for video games, VR and television. This is where he garnered some recognition when his team over at Scanline won an Emmy for their VFX work on season 4 of Game of Thrones.
Wilson J. Tang — Strategic Advisor
Wilson J. Tang is a Designer, Creative Executive and an Entrepreneur working at the highest level of digital media for 20+ years. Career highlights include George Lucas's pioneering VFX company Industrial Light & Magic (Lucasfilm), as well as Electronic Arts. In 2010 he co-founded the mobile game studio that grew to become Kabam in Vancouver. He exited from Kabam upon its sale to Netmarble in 2017. Wilson is currently the CEO and Lead Designer of YumeGo.app - an augmented reality app and platform that lets people discover and play enriching interactive experiences in the world around them. Projects include our own educational games as well as partnerships with museums and companies using AR to inspire and engage with visitors and employees.
As one of three co-founding members of Kabam Vancouver (formerly Exploding Barrel Games) Wilson was directly responsible for the design and development of games such as Marvel Contest of Champions - which has been downloaded more than 200m+ times, earning Editor's Choice in 100+ countries and revenues of usd $300 million+. Duties while at Kabam included Art Direction, UI/UX Design, New IP Creative Development, Branding, Marketing and Talent Development.
Wilson advises various companies in digital media, including creative strategy at SkyBound North/WindSunSky, as well as UI/UX at PrecisionOS - the VR orthopedic surgical education company. Wilson has lectured at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, and has been on the board of advisers for the Intercross Creative Center (icc-jp.com) in Japan since 2001, and for the Centre for Digital Media since 2020.
CHRIS ANDERSON — SENIOR PRODUCER
Chris Anderson started his career in VFX as a Production Assistant on the Original Space Jam, and has worked as a VFX Producer since 2005. His credits on over 15 feature films include Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder, Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons, Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Deadpool 2, and Ford v Ferrari.
In addition to his Feature Film experience, he has worked on various alternative media projects, serving as VFX Producer on the Game Cinematic for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III, and the Music Video for the Deadmau5 song Professional Griefers.