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Double Barrel Studios EXPAND YOUR STORY. Video & animation agency. Based in Canada, serving the world. We create content. Award-winning content. You could even consider us hired guns.

Stories that sing, promo pieces that appeal, podcast series that enlighten and entertain. We go wherever we’re needed, whenever we’re needed. Chances are good we’re aiming our cameras at something, somewhere, right now. And the results are spectacular. We’ve produced content for CTV, CBC & the Toronto Star. From national broadcasts to niche digital distribution – there’s one thing for certain. It’s not so much about the method of distribution anymore – it’s about the message. And that, dear reader, is our specialty.

19/10/2026

50,000+ Indigenous-owned businesses. $56 billion in economic impact. And that’s just the beginning.

In May, Double Barrel teamed up with the Indigenous Prosperity Foundation to create a video campaign featuring emerging entrepreneurs from its Launchpad program.

The occasion? NACCA’s annual gala, where participants would take the stage to pitch their business ideas, with one ultimately being crowned the winner.

The day before the event, we sat down with each entrepreneur to find out what really drives them. We heard about the experiences that shaped their ideas, the challenges they’ve faced and what they’re hoping to achieve. And those conversations revealed something that doesn’t always make it into a business presentation: the deeply personal reasons people take the leap into entrepreneurship.

For Bradley, it was about building a business that would allow him to help other entrepreneurs and be present for his son. For Cianna, a love of thrifting born out of personal loss became a mission to tackle textile waste. Kyler found his calling in storytelling, encouraged by a grandfather who believed in him. Nikole is creating opportunities for vulnerable youth, inspired by her own son and years of working with young people in crisis. And Theron is helping young athletes find the cultural connection and support he once struggled to find himself.

A huge thank you to the Indigenous Prosperity Foundation and NACCA for inviting us to be part of this celebration of Indigenous entrepreneurship. And congratulations to all the Launchpad participants!

Have an important story to tell? We’d love to help you bring it to life.

Let’s talk: [email protected]

A FEW FRAMES | Behind the Scenes at Fort YorkSome filming locations are a little harder to get into than others. 🎬For ou...
15/10/2026

A FEW FRAMES | Behind the Scenes at Fort York

Some filming locations are a little harder to get into than others. 🎬

For our recent production with the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans (CPCoE), we filmed at historic Fort York in Toronto. Sounds straightforward enough. Except filming there meant navigating multiple layers of military approvals before we could even roll a camera.

And once we got inside, we made a few deliberate creative choices.

Fort York is an incredible location, but all that history can make a setting feel a little formal on camera. We wanted something more contemporary and approachable. So we leaned into a wide, Netflix-style interview aesthetic, deliberately keeping our lighting and audio equipment visible in the frame. Rather than hiding the production setup, we made it part of the visual storytelling.

The result is a more relaxed, behind-the-scenes feel that brings a contemporary perspective to a historic setting.

A few of our favourite frames from the shoot.
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Have a challenging location or an important story to tell? We know how to make it happen.

Let’s talk: [email protected]

14/10/2026

Interviewing a few team members sounds pretty straightforward. But in practice? Well, that’s another story. 😂

Being comfortable on camera and being compelling on camera are two very different things. Some of the best interviews we’ve ever filmed have come from people who were absolutely convinced they had nothing interesting to say.

The secret isn’t finding people who are naturally good on camera. It’s knowing how to help people forget the camera is there.

That takes more than a list of questions and a microphone. It takes preparation, patience, the ability to listen, and knowing when to follow an unexpected thread rather than stick to the script.

At Double Barrel, we’ve spent nearly 15 years working with real people, from healthcare professionals and researchers to Veterans, community leaders and everyday people sharing deeply personal experiences. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that great interviews don’t happen by accident.

So yes, you absolutely can interview a few team members. Just don’t underestimate what goes into making those interviews great. 🎬

Got a story worth telling but not sure how to get your people comfortable on camera? That’s our kind of challenge. Let’s talk about bringing your next video project to life. Reach us at [email protected].

13/10/2026

What happens when healthcare research leaves people out?

So much of what we know about health and medicine comes from clinical research. But historically, not everyone has had an equal voice in shaping it. And when lived experiences are overlooked, we risk missing critical insights that could lead to better treatments, services and care.

The Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans (CPCoE) is tackling this challenge with its new Veteran Engagement in Research Toolkit, designed to help researchers meaningfully involve Veterans in their work.

We partnered with CPCoE to create a film introducing the initiative, bringing Veterans, clinicians and researchers together on camera to explore why lived experience matters and how it can lead to better healthcare outcomes.

From a filmmaking perspective, we wanted to avoid turning a deeply human issue into an institutional explainer.

Instead, we put the people at the centre of the research at the centre of the film.

Veterans speak about what it means to contribute to research that could improve the lives of future generations. Researchers share what they’ve learned about listening, collaboration and the importance of understanding experiences beyond their own.

The result is a film that introduces an important new resource while making a larger point:

The people affected by research deserve a voice in shaping it.

A big thank you to the team at CPCoE for trusting Double Barrel to help tell this important story. We’re proud to have been part of it.

Have an important story to tell? We’d love to help you bring it to life. Let’s talk: [email protected]

21/09/2026

What does it mean to be a woman in Canada’s military? And how has that story changed over the last century?

Those are some of the questions at the heart of a new short documentary we created for Veterans Affairs Canada - now part of its 2026 Veterans’ Week educational resources. HER STORY: Canadian Women in Uniform explores the experiences of women in Canada’s military, and this fall, it will reach more than 65,000 educators across the country.

But here’s the part we really love.

Veterans Affairs Canada has developed a lesson plan that asks students to watch our film alongside a 1944 Canadian Women’s Army Corps recruitment film from the National Film Board, The Proudest Girl in the World.
Students will compare how women in Canada’s military are represented in each, and look at what those differences say about how attitudes toward women and military service have changed. Two films. More than 80 years apart.

Our film is also supported by a research activity and discussion guide and featured in Veterans Affairs Canada’s new educational hub dedicated to teaching youth about Canadian women’s military service.

At Double Barrel, we do a lot of work with organizations telling stories that carry history, lived experience and a fair bit of complexity. This was one of them. We’re proud to have created it, and even prouder to see it being used to get young Canadians asking questions, looking at history and having conversations.

Working with a story that carries some weight? We’d love to hear about it. Reach out to us: [email protected]

17/09/2026

You can know a lot about a subject and still not understand what it’s like to live it. That distinction matters - especially when you’re creating content with communities whose experiences require a little more listening.

At Double Barrel, we do a lot of work with people and communities whose experiences can’t be understood from the outside. We recently worked with the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans on a film about the organization and its Veteran Engagement in Research Toolkit. A resource built with veterans, not simply for them.

And that idea shaped how we approached the film, too. Because veterans aren’t one audience with one experience. Service histories are different. Injuries are different. Families are different. What chronic pain looks like in someone’s life is different.

Our job wasn’t to smooth all of that into one tidy narrative. It was to listen. To veterans. To researchers. To clinicians. And to the places where their perspectives met, and sometimes didn’t. That’s usually where the real story is anyway.

Working on something that needs this kind of approach? Let’s talk. Reach out : [email protected]. Let’s make something great together!

C O N T A C T 🛸⭐️ What an absolute blast we had producing + filming on location in the Coachella Valley with What It Mea...
09/07/2026

C O N T A C T 🛸⭐️ What an absolute blast we had producing + filming on location in the Coachella Valley with What It Means To Be Human for this year’s Contact In The Desert !! Got to meet so many of our personal heroes in person (George Knapp whaat!) see live tapings of Coast to Coast AM + WEAPONIZED and connect with amazing friends against the stunning backdrop of the Santa Rosa Mountains ☀️

Already excited for next year! Huge shout out to the CITD team and particularly the amazing Jaimie Rae for all the opportunities and creating the smoothest interview schedule I’ve ever seen! 😍✨

Interviews going live now over on Spotify, YouTube and Apple Pods - hit the link in our bio to get there 🙏

09/04/2026

April 9, 1917.
5:30 a.m. on Easter Monday.
Snow. Mud. Silence, and then the crackle of artillery fire.

On this morning, over a century ago, Canadian soldiers began their advance toward Vimy Ridge. A battle that had already defeated countless others.

Over the hours that followed, they took ground that wasn’t supposed to be taken.
Through coordination. Preparation. And an enormous amount of work behind the scenes.

It became a defining moment for Canada, and a costly one.
Over 10,000 Canadians were killed or wounded in just a few days.

In Hidden Heroes, historians Ted Barris, Geoffrey Hayes and the late Tim Cook share what made that moment possible, brought to life through custom 3D animation of the trench network Canadians dug by hand, helping secure the victory.

Today marks Vimy Ridge Day.
A moment that helped shape our country, and a chance to remember the people who stepped up when it mattered.

🎥 Watch Hidden Heroes FREE on Amazon Prime in Canada
and internationally on Prime in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand
https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Hidden-Heroes/0OZUTTQXZ0JRMNMGPQG76JO6AW

08/04/2026

Workplace training builds knowledge. But it doesn't guarantee behaviour change.

The truth is - if there’s no opportunity to apply what was learned, and no follow-up to reinforce it, most of that learning disappears. It just doesn’t translate back into the work.

In this week’s episode of Wired to Work, Jess Chapman sits down with Meghan Morrison (Service NB) to unpack why training so often fails to lead to real change, and what it actually takes for learning to stick.

🎧 Wired to Work with Jess Chapman. Watch or listen whereever you get your podcasts! https://lnkd.in/ezzK9CVZ

Often the real work in life (and business!) is staying open to the journey.Not the polished or perfectly planned version...
27/03/2026

Often the real work in life (and business!) is staying open to the journey.

Not the polished or perfectly planned version. But the messy, unpredictable, say-yes-and-see-what-happens version.

Case in point: I met Mallory, a photographer from LA, through a random SXSW Reddit thread. She was already in Austin for the festival, and somehow that turned into her coming out to shoot my panel. Two total strangers, just saying yes, trusting blindly and seeing what happened.

One of the coolest things about SXSW is the potential for these random creative collisions. Finding like-minded collaborators and patterns in the static.

There were conversations with Matt Acosta and Lisa Normand - laughs with Kurt Benson, William, Alison and x … intriguing chats with x about his super cool startup just before Steven Spielberg hit the stage.

And at one point, Jamie Lee Curtis called herself a “manifestor”. And it reminded me how much of my entrepreneurial (and creative) journey has come from exactly this. Not from strategy decks and perfectly mapped paths, but from staying open. To people, to moments, to things that don’t look like “opportunities” at first.

This holds true for content creation too. Too many people get stuck trying to perfect something before they’ve even started. Fear gets in the way and stops them before they even begin.

But creativity (and life!) don’t work like that.

Creativity is courage. Discovery. Following threads. Acting and refining.

SXSW reminded me that some of the best things I’ve built never came from control. They came from saying yes, acting on a hunch, rolling with a feeling before it made sense.

Because the real work isn’t in having it all planned out - it’s being brave enough to stay open for the journey.

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