Atopia is a

production company A production company, production house, production studio, or a production team is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and v ...

and film distributor based in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada. The company was founded in 2000 by

Pascal Maeder Pascal Maeder is a Swiss-Canadian film producer and cyberneticist. In 2020, he launched ''x-ode'', an XR messaging app enabling its users to connect with one another based on shared experiences in the real world. The app was developed by Urbanoi ...

. During the following decade, the company produced and released a string of critically acclaimed and award-winning feature films including Daniel Cross' '' S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic'',

Federico Hidalgo Federico Hidalgo is a filmmaker, film director and film professor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has directed five feature-length, fiction films to date: '' A Silent Love'' (2004), ''Imitation'' (2006), ''The Skeptic (L'Incrédule)'' (2012), ''Le ...

's ''

A Silent Love ''A Silent Love'' ( es, Un amor silencioso) is a 2004 Canadian (Quebec) film written and directed by Federico Hidalgo and produced by Atopia. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004 then opened in a limited release on ...

'', Simon Sauve's '' Jimmywork'', Noel Mitrani's '' Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi'', Laura Bari's '' Antoine''

Jephté Bastien Jephté Bastien is a Canadian film director. His debut film, ''Sortie 67'', won the Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time film director at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011. Born in Haiti, Bastien is based in Montreal Mont ...

's ''

Sortie 67 A sortie (from the French word meaning ''exit'' or from Latin root ''surgere'' meaning to "rise up") is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops, from a strongpoint. The term originated in siege warfare. ...

'' as well as André Forcier's ''

Je me souviens () is the official motto of Quebec, and translated literally into English means: "I remember." The exact meaning of this short sentence is subject to several interpretations, though all relate to the history of the Quebec people. The motto can ...

''. Initially launched as an online film studio with the development of 39 episodic web films in 2001, Atopia became the first Canadian distributor to release its feature films online through early platforms such as

Jaman Jaman was a company that offered users a movie discovery site, allowing them to browse viewing options offered across the internet. In its previous iteration, Jaman was one of the first sites to offer view on demand of media on the internet. It ...

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