Paperny Entertainment

Paperny Entertainment Inc.
Formerly	David Paperny Films; Paperny Films
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Television production
Founded	1994; 30 years ago
Founder	David Paperny
Headquarters	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Key people	David Paperny; (President); Audrey Mehler; (Executive Vice President); Cal Shumiatcher; (Executive Vice President); Aynsley Vogel; (Vice President, Creative)
Products	Television programs
Services	Production
Owner	Lionsgate Studios
Parent	RoK Global Acquisitions (2008–2012); Entertainment One (2014–2024); Lionsgate Alternative Television (2024–present)

Paperny Entertainment Inc. (previously known as Paperny Films and David Paperny Films) is a Vancouver-based producer of television programming and films, ranging from character-driven documentaries to provocative comedy to quirky reality shows. It was founded by David Paperny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1993 documentary The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter.

In July 2014, Paperny Entertainment was acquired by Entertainment One, which in turn has been acquired by American toy manufacturer Hasbro on December 30, 2019.^[1]^[2]^[3] It was later sold to Lionsgate on December 27, 2023.

Television series

Listed by the year the shows first aired.

2001

KinK (Showcase, 5 seasons, 63 episodes)

2005

Crash Test Mommy (Life Network)

2007

Road Hockey Rumble (OLN, 26 episodes)
My Fabulous Gay Wedding (Global, Logo, 2 seasons, 19 episodes)

2008

The Week the Women Went (CBC, 2 seasons, 16 episodes)
Jetstream (Discovery, 8 episodes)

2009

The 100 Mile Challenge (Food Network Canada, 6 episodes)
Combat School (Discovery, 6 episodes, follow-up to Jetstream)
Glutton for Punishment (US Food Network, 5 seasons, 56 episodes)
The Stagers (HGTV Canada, two seasons, 26 episodes)
Chop Shop (Slice, 13 episodes)

2010

2011

Eat St. (Food Network Canada, 3 seasons to date)
Dust Up (6 episodes)
Consumed (HGTV Canada, one season)
Dussault Inc. (City, 2 seasons, 32 episodes)

2012

World's Weirdest Restaurants (Food Network Canada, one season)

2013

Yukon Gold (History Channel)

2014

Chopped Canada (Food Network Canada)

Documentaries

The documentary The Boys of Buchenwald (2002) and Love Shines (2010) were produced by Paperny.

In 2008, Paperny partnered with David Ridgen and John Fleming on "The Civil Rights Cold Case Project"^[4]^[5] with the Center for Investigative Reporting. The project brought together partners from across the media and legal spectrum to reveal long-neglected truths behind scores of race-motivated murders from the civil rights era, and to help facilitate reconciliation and healing. The project sponsored work in civil rights-era cold cases, including that of African American shoe-shop owner Frank Morris who was murdered by the Klan in Ferriday, Louisiana in 1964, and that of Clifton Walker, a Natchez Mississippi mill worker murdered by Klan members the same year.

The documentary film Confessions of an Innocent Man (2007), which tells the story of a British-Canadian engineer William Sampson, won a Gemini Award for Best Biography Documentary Program.^[6]