Established in 2007, Elemental Pictures is a Newfoundland based film and TV production company that focusses on film and television projects produced in Canada for the global market place.
Team
Peter Blackie
Producer
Peter came to film and TV 15 years ago as an Architect with experience working around the globe and has since focussed his time writing and producing on a number of varied film and TV projects. Peter co-created and co-showran (along with his brother Rob) the Netflix series FRONTIER. In 2021 Peter (along with his brother) created and wrote the sci-fi comic series CLANS OF BELARI for AfterShock Media. Other recent projects include SURREALESTATE (NBC/Syfy), as well as the half-hour comedy SON OF A CRITCH (CBC) and the feminist sci-fi one-hour series ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD (NBC/Syfy). Season 2 of SurrealEstate is being released June of 2023. Peter (and Rob) is currently developing the science fiction animated series CERULEA.Peter was born and raised in Gander, Newfoundland. As an Architect, Peter has lived and worked in a number of different locations including New York City, Berlin, Germany, and Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. He is a registered Architect with The Newfoundland Association of Architects and is a graduate of the Master of Architecture Program at the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) (1996), the Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies program, also TUNS (1994), and of the Bachelor of Arts Program (Philosophy) at Dalhousie University (1992).
Rob Blackie
Producer
Rob is a graduate of Columbia University with an MFA in Film, and is an award winning filmmaker. He co-created and was co-showrunner (along with brother Peter) of the Netflix series FRONTIER. Rob also was director / producer / writer of the CBC series REPUBLIC OF DOYLE. An avid science fiction fan, Rob wrote and directed the award-winning sci-fi short DEATHSQUAD and he also directed the award winning short, QUIET AT DAWN. In 2021 Rob (along with Peter) created and wrote the sci-fi comic series CLANS OF BELARI for AfterShock Media, which is currently being developed into a TV series.Other recent projections include SURREALESTATE (NBC/Syfy), SON OF A CRITCH (CBC) and the feminist sci-fi one-hour series ASTRID & LILLY SAVE THE WORLD (NBC/Syfy). 2023 marks the return of SURREALESTATE for Season 2, as well and SON OF A CRITCH Season 3. In 2004, he joined Granada America New York, post-producing and supervising the hit television series, The First 48. Rob’s career in the film and television industry began in 2000 as the Production Supervisor with Halifax-based production company IMX Communications Inc. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University, in Halifax.
Projects
(Produced by Rob Blackie and/or Peter Blackie)
News
“refreshingly free of pretension, unlike some in the genre. Yes, there are serious themes to be drawn from it if you’re so inclined — it’s about greed, and empire-building, and exploitation of a land and its native inhabitants — but you can also feel free to take it as simply an action-packed, rather bloody tale from those frothy preindustrial days.”
— NY Times, Neil Genzlinger
“creators Rob and Peter Blackie do a good job distilling some complex history (with its warring Irish, Scots, English and Natives, not to mention some pronounced class and gender discord) into straightforward entertainment, basically by treating the whole enterprise as Star Wars: 1700”
— The Hollywood Reporter, Keith Uhlich
Upcoming Projects
Locations
Positioned at the Easternmost edge of the North American continent, we are like the New Zealand of the Northern Hemisphere. Along with our extremely varied and diverse natural landscapes and unique clusters of centuries-old fishing communities, Elemental Pictures has developed a world-class production infrastructure.
Contact.
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rob@elementalpictures.com
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petercblackie@gmail.com