Kryssta Mills, Producer

Kryssta was raised in the beach town of White Rock, BC, and as an independent Producer she handles development, financing and production on feature films, television and Documentaries. Kryssta began her career in filmmaking as an Assistant Director, and has a strong background in production from working on television series (The X Files), and feature films such as the Sundance Festival’s Special Jury Prize winner Eve and the Firehorse. Kryssta later moved into Development and gained experiences over several years in both Vancouver and Toronto as a Development Executive for several film companies. Kryssta then increased her post-production knowledge while working as postproduction coordinator on Peter Greenaway’s Nightwatching; a four-country co produced digital feature film.

As Producer, Kryssta’s credits are comprised of the short films The Cure for Bravo! The DGC Kickstart film Good Morning, and 2 shorts for the Canadian Film Centre. Kryssta worked as Associate Producer on director Bruce McDonald’s Genie nominated feature film The Tracey Fragments (Canada’s Top Ten 2007, Berlin Film Fest prize winner 07, Toronto Int’l Film Festival, Atlantic Film Fest prize winner, AFI Festival, Los Angeles). As Co Producer, she most recently completed the feature film Sheltered Life by director Carl Laudan (Telefilm Perspectives Canada Cannes market 2008). Kryssta has worked with Financing partners including Telefilm Canada, TMN, Movie Central, Rogers Telefund, Odeon Films and Alliance Atlantis on her own films, and has gained valuable knowledge in festival and distribution from her two seasons working in the programming department of the Whistler Film Festival.

An alumni of the esteemed Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre Producer’s Lab, Kryssta has also studied film finance and distribution at the University of British Columbia, and attended both the Vancouver Film School, and the BC Institute of Technology. In 2006, Kryssta was a Producer recipient of the National Screen Institute’s Features First program with the feature comedy The Take Out Girl, and in 2007 she participated as a team coach for Women in Film Vancouver’s Flash Forward program. Kryssta joined Screen Siren Pictures in March 2008 as Co Producer of the feature comedy Year of the Carnivore, by director Sook-Yin Lee. She also manages and assists with Screen Sirens slate of Canadian and International feature films, and continues to search out captivating stories based on moral dilemmas of humanity, from her home base in beautiful Vancouver BC.