Ant Horasanli

Ant Horasanli
Producer / Director

Award-winning director and producer Ant Horasanli has created a diverse body of work ranging from web series to feature films.

Lost Journey (2011) marked his first feature film and was produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada. The film was acquired by distributor Mongrel Media which released the film theatrically in Canada where it enjoyed an extended run. The film was published in Post City Magazine as one of "T.O.'s Top 25 Films of All Time."

In 2014 Ant was nominated for an Excellence in the Arts award by the Premiere of Ontario and received production funding from the Ontario Arts Council for his documentary Turkification (2015).

In 2016 Ant completed his second feature film GEAR a crime drama starring Gregory Hlady from X-Men Days of Future Past (2014). He also received development funding once again from Telefilm for his next feature film Outrun.

Ant Horasanli is currently developing Season 2 of Petrol the Series (2017), a web-series about five getaway drivers who work for a mysterious employer. The series has been nominated for several awards at Rio WebFest, Vancouver WebFest, Oxford Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Festival. Season 1 of Petrol has recently been nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards including best Original Programming, Best Actor, and Best Director - in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media.