Janine Kirk
Founder, Producer
Janine was born in Berlin, Germany, and moved to Canada 2010.
She discovered her passion for film at the age of 12 and earned her first supporting role in the German TV mini-series 'The Swine' with Götz George (1995). After moving to Canada she started working in various projects in the Canadian film industry from short films to TV shows and movie productions, and landed a role in 'Fargo', the TV movie 'Murder Runs In The Family', and plays the lead in 'A Broken Beat'. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and published her first children’s book in 2023.
With the ever so changing industry and for the love of independent film making, Janine started Peak & Pine Productions. Creating meaningful content that speaks to a wide and broad audience, touching their hearts, is the focal point of their projects. Janine's debut film 'A BROKEN BEAT' was inspired by a very personal experience. Her daughter was born with a heart defect which motivated her to share it with the world to bring more awareness and knowledge about this condition. She wrote, directed and produced this short film as a passion project very dear to her heart and as a tribute to all the families out there in similar situations, as well as to all the amazing surgeons, doctors and nurses.
Bryan J. McHale
Assistant Producer
Bryan is a civil litigator, entrepreneur, and actor-performer. His legal career has focused on employment law, and insurance defense. As an entrepreneur Bryan designed and built a craft microbrewery.
As a performer, Bryan’s dedication to the craft of acting began in Calgary, Alberta at Company of Rogues Actor’s Studio sealing his passion for performance, creativity and the Arts. He has since trained in Vancouver and London for TV & Film, theatre, Improv, writing and producing. Bryan has appeared in several films and series including The Order, Murder Runs in the Family, and Heartland as well as Peak and Pine’s production of Broken Beat. Bryan has appeared on stage in Calgary and Vancouver and he is currently writing for stage and for film and undertaking the role of producing.
Bryan’s passion for performance is driven by the human condition - our innate affinity for story telling, empathy, love and destruction. Bryan believes by sharing our experiences through creative arts, we become more than an audience but a participant in the greater human condition. We tell jokes and laugh. We cry when others are in despair. We love and we hate. And we aspire to greatness with great achievements and great cost. It is Bryan’s aspiration to share in that human experience as assistant producer with
Peak and Pine Productions.
Our Partners
David Seffer, BVR
Director, Producer, Editor
After studying social pedagogy and attending the Television Academy of Central Germany, David completed an apprenticeship as an assistant director on the set of the monumental film "Quo Vadis" and the Oscar-winning feature film "The Pianist" directed by Roman Polanski, with whom he worked on further projects.
Since 2000, his own debut works have followed, in cooperation with the WFDiF Film Studio Warsaw and the Institute for Acting, Film and Television Professions in Berlin, where he completed an apprenticeship as a production manager for film and TV and later also taught as a lecturer. With the founding of his own production company, many film projects and international co-productions have been created in recent years, some of which have also won awards at international festivals.
Since 2009, he has been a member of the Directors Association of Germany (BVR) and, in addition to film production, continues to work as a film pedagogue and lecturer at various educational institutions.
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