Biography
Norm Coyne is a Syilx producer, writer, director. His path to film was led by his career as an award winning live event and magazine creator. Through the years, Norm's projects have appeared in Mashable, Fox News, CBR, Paste, CBC, Mental Floss, Nerdist, Playback and on Kevin Smith's podcast Fatman Beyond.
In 2015, Norm founded the blockbuster entertainment event Northern FanCon The convention has hosted over 100 stars in Northern British Columbia including William Shatner, Kevin Smith, Nichelle Nichols, Lou Ferrigno, Tricia Helfer, Alan Tudyk and Karl Urban to name a few. Identifying it's unique opportunity, Norm has since developed the event into a local film industry catalyst and seen amazing results.
During his film career, Norm served as executive producer of the critically acclaimed adaptation of Stephen King's The Doctor's Case which went on to win dozens of awards at festivals internationally and was reported by ScreenRant as "The 5th Best Stephen King film adaptation (according to IMDB)". The momentum from the success of the film helped Norm spearhead efforts to build film industry in Northern British Columbia and in 2021, he produced the feature films A Great North Christmas (available in the US on Crackle), The Way to the Heart (available on Super Channel), and the short film Within the Grip.
His upcoming projects include the bizarre festival travelogue Festies and the web series Small Town Longshots which boasts interviews with Emmy & Golden Globe winner Edward James Olmos, director Rachel Talalay, executive producer Michael Uslan, Alexander Ludwig, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emily Swallow and Writer's Guild award winner Marc Bernardin.
In 2020 & 2022, Norm was one of 100 filmmakers chosen from across Canada as part of the Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices fellowship in the Indigenous filmmaker category. Most recently, he was nominated for an Indiescreen award by the Canadian Media Producer's Association in the Emerging Producer category for his work developing rural shooting locations.
