Our Team

Wapanatahk Media develops and produces top-quality unscripted, scripted, digital and animated content for broadcasters and streaming platforms, with a focus on telling original and authentic Indigenous stories and providing training and hiring opportunities for BIPOC employees in the television industry. Wapanatahk Media is co-owned and headed by Indigenous producers Tania Koenig-Gauchier and Shirley McLean.

Original Content Lab (OCL) is a content-creation company launched by industry veteran Sean Connolly in May 2022. Sean is best known as co-creator of the Netflix hit series Blown Away. Based out of Toronto, with an international outlook, OCL focuses on originating content across all the primetime unscripted genres, including specialist factual docs, documentary series, docudrama, factual-entertainment formats, and lifestyle. The company also develops kids and family programming, unscripted and animation. OCL is represented by Hayden Meyer at APA. Original Content Lab has a multi-year production partnership with Great Pacific Media.