Atopia is a production company and

film distributor A film distributor is responsible for the Film promotion, marketing of a film. The distribution company may be the same with, or different from, the production company. Distribution deals are an important part of financing a film. The distributo ...

based in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

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 Urbanoid ...

. 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 C ...

'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 ''On the Trail of Igor Rizzi'' (french: Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi) is a 2006 Canadian drama film starring Laurent Lucas, written and directed by Noël Mitrani. The film's production companies are Atopia and StanKaz Films. The distributor is also A ...

'',

Laura Bari Laura Bari is an Argentinian born and Montréal based filmmmaker. She studied pedagogy at Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in psychopathology of the expression. Her debut feature film, ''Antoine'' (2008), is an-award winning doc ...

's ''

Antoine Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana ...

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.

'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 André Forcier (born Marc-André Forcier on July 19, 1947) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality. His unromanticized, e ...

's '' Je me souviens''. 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.

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