Alexandre M. Oktan is a cinematographer, camera operator, and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. He has over 15 years of experience shooting a wide variety of projects including dance films, music videos, documentaries, reality TV shows, and corporate work. Some of the productions he has worked on include Ecstacy Forbiden for Bravo!, No Man's Land for Bravo!, and The Expandables for DIY Network. He is fluent in French and English and holds certifications in rescue diving and emergency first response.
1. Alexandre M. Oktan – DOP / Camera Operator / Toronto, Canada
1 416 827 6668 / alexoktan@yahoo.ca
FILM PRODUCTION:
Ecstacy Forbiden – Dance Film featuring Choreographer Claudia Moore for Bravo!
DOP
Director/Producer: Jonny Silver
Things that go bump in the night – Dance film featuring Evelyn Hart for Bravo!
DOP
Director: Rosanna Saracino / Producer: Melanie Windle / Rehanded Film
Home - (15min short drama)
Operator
Director: Nicolas Doldinger
DOP: Eric Oh / Producer: Echo Productions
Music Video - Promise: “Outside”
DOP
Director: Daniel Libby / Producer: Albert Wong / SILSA Productions
No Man’s Land - 7 min dance film featuring Peter Chin for Bravo!
DOP
Director: Alexandre Oktan / Producer: Alexandre Oktan / Davin Black (235 Films)
Music Video - The Midways: “A lot like me”
DOP
Director: Craig Boland / Producer: Syndicate Films
Music Video - TC: “Kim”
DOP
Director: Harv / Producer: Blackwalk productions
CINEMAX - 7X 15 sec spots
DOP
Director: Jeff Rustia / Producer: Jeff Rustia, FRONT
CPAC - Three station Ids + open for “Talk Politics” on CPAC
DOP
Director: Robert Windesman / Producer: Jeff Rustia, FRONT
Nickelodeon Asia - “Its’ Nick time” - 30 sec. spot
DOP
Director: Robert Windesman / Producer: Jeff Rustia, FRONT
2. Toronto Star TV - Spec for CRTC pitch
DOP
Director: Robert Windesman / Producer: Jeff Rustia, FRONT
Heritage Canada – Opening seq. for 30 min show on TVO
DOP
Director: Boris Rodriguez / Producer: TVO / TFO
News World International - Corporate
DOP
Director: Jeff Rustia / Producer: N.W.I.
KALANI - 30 min fiction
DOP
Director: Sundeep Bagga / Producer: Rubycross Film
ENTONCES BUENO… - 19 min. documentary / Cuba
DOP / Director
Self produced / premiered at Images festival
HD PRODUCTION:
A Bryck At A Time – Reality series for HGTV and DIY Network – Toronto
Director: Andrew Sims / Producer: Vinny Lettieri / Tricon Film & Television
The Expandables – Reality series for DIY Network – Toronto
DOP/Operator
Director: Andrew Sims / Producer: Vinny Lettieri / Tricon Film & Television
Next Star 6 – Reality series for YTV – Toronto
Operator
Director: Jameel Bharmal / Producer: Marc Kell Whitehead / Tricon Film & Television
For the Love of Food – 13 episodes/1st
Season – Paris, France
DOP
Director: Richard Yearwood / Producer: Raylaybay Productions Inc.
Family Under Construction – Reality Series for HGTV – Toronto
DOP/Operator
Director: Andrew Sims / Producer: Vinny Lettieri / Tricon Film and Television
Bryck House – Reality Series for DIY and HGTV – Toronto
DOP/Operator
Director: Andrew Sims / Producer: Vinny Lettieri / Tricon Film and Television
3. Crashers – Reality Pilot – Niagara Falls
DOP
Director: Filip Vukcevic / Producer: David Ralph
305 Miami – Documentary Series Pilot for Much Music – Miami
DOP
Director: Ian Hannah / Producer: Tricon Film & Television
Love Trap Season 1 & 2 – Hidden Camera Show / Reality series for Cosmo TV
DOP
Director: Sebastian Cluer / Producer: Phylyss Newman / Tricon Film & Television
Ex Wives Rock – Reality Series for Slice TV – Los Angeles
DOP
Director: Pete Mervis / Producer: Tricon Film & Television
In Real Life 2 – Reality Series for YTV
Operator
Director: Perrine David / Producer: PTN Productions Inc.
Where’s My Goat – Documentary for Documentary Channel
DOP for Toronto sequence only
Director: Christopher Richardson / Producer: Henge Productions
Stuck Season 2 – Documentary Series for W Network.
DOP
Director: Liz Marshall / Producer: Marianne Kusmaniuk / 52 Media Inc.
The Unsellables – Design Show for HGTV
Operator
DOP: Josh Power
Producer: Next Films Inc / Cineflix.
Instant Beauty Pageant – Reality Television for Slice Network
Operator
DOP: Chris Alias / Producer: RTR Media Inc.
Stuck Season 1 – Documentary Series for W Network.
DOP
Producer: Unstuck Productions / 52 Media Inc.
Capturing Cooperman – Documentary for Bravo!
Operator for Toronto sequence
DOP: Chris Gargus / Producer: Franco Dottor / Reel Girls Media Inc.
4. World of Wonder – Tori and Dean Inn Love – Reality show for Spike TV.
Operator
Producer: Karen Rippenburg / World of Wonder Inc.
Outside the box – Short documentary
Operator / Director
DOP: Eric Oh / Producer: Echo Productions
Birth Days – Reality show for Life Network
Operator
Producer: Life Network
A Broken Life – Feature Film Starring Tom Sizemore
Operator
DOP: Peter Benison CSC//Producer: Broken Films
Catfight – One hour Pilot for reality show
Operator
DOP: Walter Pacifico
Director: Daniel Couto / Producer: Sonya Jacowitz / Tooth and Claw Productions
ET Canada – Television magazine
Cameraman
Executive Producer: Leslie Wasserman Global Television
CBC - Hot type / CBC Sunday / Fashion File / Living Toronto / NewsWorld Int. /
Cameraman
Producer: CBC Television
Sirius Satellite Radio – Spot
DOP
Director: Craig Boland / Producer: Syndicate Films
TD Bank – Corporate
Operator
DOP: Tony Wannamaker CSC.
Director: Tony Wannamaker / Producer: Rhonda Wannamaker
Momentum NFB: “Des Maux à l’Action”- 10 minutes documentary.
DOP
Director: Carl Theriault / Producer: Claudette Jaiko / NFB
VIA TVA – 1/2 hour television magazine for TVA
DOP [8 min. segments for 26 episodes]
Director: Alexandre Oktan [8 min. segments for 26 episodes]
Producer: Mediatique Inc. for TVA
5. Profils I: Fernand Gilbert - 30 min documentary for TVO
DOP / Operator
Director: Alexandre Oktan
Producer: Daniele Caloz / Mediatique Inc.
Profils II: George and Helen Vari - 30 min documentary for TVO
DOP / Operator
Director: Alexandre Oktan
Producer: Mediatique Inc.
EDUCATION:
Fluent in French, English, some Spanish
PADI Rescue Diver Certification
Crest Diving, Limassol, Cyprus
Emergency First Response Certification
Crest Diving, Limassol, Cyprus
B.A.A. of Photographic Arts, (Film + Photography)
Ryerson University, Toronto
Photojournalism 1 & 2
Emily Carr College of Art and Desingn, Vancouver.
Other activities:
2002- Ontario Arts Council
- Juror: Film and Video category
Toronto
DUOS (60 min play)
- Cameraman / Performer
Director: Guillaume Bernardi
Writer: Anne Nenarokoff-Van Burek
Ran for six weeks at ARTWORD Toronto.
References available upon request
1 416 827 6668