Jonathan Barker, a producer and executive who co-founded the giant-screen producer-distributor Sk Films and was its CEO, died Thursday morning of cancer in Toronto. He was 67.
Also a board member of the Giant Screen Cinema Association, Barker launched Sk Films two decades ago with Bob Kerr, who had co-founded Imax Corp in 1968. Sk went on to produce more than a dozen projects that combine human drama and natural history discoveries. Among them was the eco-adventure series The Water Brothers, which Barker executive produced and starred his environmentalist sons Alex and Tyler.
Other titles produced and/or distirubted by Sk Films include the Oscar-shortlisted 2003 docu short Bugs! and 2012’s Flight of the Butterflies, the only film to sweep the Gsca Awards. Barker was executive producer of those films, along with other Sk titles such as 1997’s Mission to Mir, 2009’s Journey to Mecca and its 2010 follow-up Roads to Mecca, and this year’s Backyard Wilderness.
Also a board member of the Giant Screen Cinema Association, Barker launched Sk Films two decades ago with Bob Kerr, who had co-founded Imax Corp in 1968. Sk went on to produce more than a dozen projects that combine human drama and natural history discoveries. Among them was the eco-adventure series The Water Brothers, which Barker executive produced and starred his environmentalist sons Alex and Tyler.
Other titles produced and/or distirubted by Sk Films include the Oscar-shortlisted 2003 docu short Bugs! and 2012’s Flight of the Butterflies, the only film to sweep the Gsca Awards. Barker was executive producer of those films, along with other Sk titles such as 1997’s Mission to Mir, 2009’s Journey to Mecca and its 2010 follow-up Roads to Mecca, and this year’s Backyard Wilderness.
- 7/6/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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