Maya & samar
meadowlarks
OUT STANDING
Charlotte
natasha
15 reasons to live
January Media is a Toronto based production
company founded by Julia Rosenberg in 2005.
MEDIA
COMING SOON
Director: Robert Budreau
Writers: Robert Budreau & Grayson Moore
Producing Partners: Lumanity Productions, Sleeper Films
A Dublin author tracks down Ireland's most notorious murderer, Malcolm Macarthur, and convinces him to go on the record in a series of dangerous interviews. Based on the book by Mark O'Connell.
COMing soon
Writer-Director: Michel Lipkes
Producing Partners: Cárcava Cine, Películas Extrañas
The fate of a young private sent to a remote jungle outpost
near the heart of a territorial conflict is tied to the mystery of an isolated and afflicted girl.
COMing soon
Writer-Director: Lina Rodriguez & Brad Deane
Producing Partners: Rayon Verde, Burning
When a Colombian-Canadian woman’s husband disappears in Bogotá, she is forced to confront her unfamiliar homeland and her own confused identity.
COMing soon
IN DEVELOPMENT
GOLDENROD
Writer: Tamara Faith Berger
A young fitness instructor is drawn to the charismatic leader of a wellness cult, whose ideology is founded on troubling extremes of embodiment and core-splitting truth.
COMing soon
forever HALLOWEEN
Writer: Paul Moncrieffe
Producing Partner: Tonic DNA
When twelve-year-old Frankie and her new friends light a cursed jack-o’-lantern on All Hallows’ Eve, they have the best Halloween of their collected lives. In the morning, Frankie wakes to a haunted new reality: her neighbourhood is transformed into a creepy phantasmagoria, and her parents—along with every other adult in town—are missing!
COMing soon
Paris blue
Based on the Novel by: Julie Scolnik
Producing Partner: Prospero Pictures
Set against a backdrop of 1970s classical music and Parisian charm, a young American flute student's whirlwind romance with a married French lawyer turns into a decades-long saga of passion, heartbreaking confusion, and a final, quiet liberation from first love.
COMing soon
Shopaholic
Writer-Director: Leah Johnston
Producing Partners: Workhorse Pictures, Pretty Fierce Films
A woman’s shopping addiction spirals out of control, threatening to destroy everything she holds dear.
COMing soon
Maya & samar
Director: Anita Doron
Stars: Keira Amanda Babaei Veira, Nicolette Pearse, Brenna Coates
2026
meadowlarks
Director: Tasha Hubbard
Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Alex Rice, Michelle Thrush
2025
Out standing
Director: Mélanie Charbonneau
Stars: Nina Kiri, Vincent Leclerc,
Enrico Colantoni
2025
CHARLOTTE
Director: Tahir Rana, Eric Warin
Stars: Keira Knightley, Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin, Helen McRory
2021
Natasha
Director: David Bezmozgis
Stars: Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Sasha Odesa, Genadijs Dolganovs, Deanna Dezmari
2015
15 Reasons to Live
Director: Alan Zweig
2013
ABOUT US
Since its founding in 2005, January Media has produced films across a wide range of genres. From its first film, the theatrical documentary The Bodybuilder and I (Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs 2007) to the animated feature Charlotte starring Keira Knightley (Canada’s Top Ten 2021, Nominated for Best Indie Feature, Annie Awards), January prides itself on working with the best of Canadian and international talent and financing.
As coproductions, January Media produced three live-action features in 2024 - Out Standing, directed by Mélanie Charbonneau and Meadowlarks, directed by Tasha Hubbard, were released in 2025, and Maya & Samar, directed by Anita Doron, was released in 2026.
JULIA ROSENBERG
Producer
Julia Rosenberg is a longtime film producer who began her career as a film executive, working on acclaimed features like Being Julia and Fugitive Pieces. She went on to launch January Films, producing both scripted and documentary projects, including The Bodybuilder and I (Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs) and Real Time, starring Randy Quaid and Jay Baruchel.
In 2021, the animated feature Charlotte, based on the life of artist Charlotte Salomon and voiced by Keira Knightley, premiered at TIFF and was released internationally the following year. Now rebranded as January Media, her company continues to champion bold, character-driven storytelling, with three new feature films set for release in 2025.
ADA WOLTERS
Manager, Operations & Development
Ada Wolters has over a decade of experience in business and operations management. She studied theatre and film at Queen’s University, and has written, directed, or produced many plays and short films.
She was in Sheila Heti and Margaux Williamson’s writing group for a number of years, now she runs it. Her forthcoming novel is I Call Myself a Killer.
NEWS
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