Zapruder Films

Zapruder Films is a Toronto-based independent film and television production company co-founded in 2013 by producer Matthew Miller and filmmaker Matt Johnson. The company is best known for producing mockumentary and found-footage genre works including The Dirties (2013), Operation Avalanche (2016), BlackBerry (2023), and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025). Zapruder has built a reputation for low-budget, guerrilla-style productions that blend historical fact with fiction and challenge traditional narrative conventions, earning critical acclaim at major festivals including Sundance, Berlin, and TIFF. The company is also noted for its Women First Screenwriting Program, which provided development funding and mentorship to emerging female screenwriters.