Ian Daffern is a writer, producer and director who lives in Toronto with a love of arts & culture and a passion for great storytelling. His work has uncovered Canada's punk-rock poets, cartoonists; video-game visionaries, architects, living dead and more.

Ian got his start in broadcasting at Book Television: The Channel as writer and news producer on the cutting-edge Canlit round-up The Word News. Then in 2004 he wrote, directed and hosted an hour-long documentary about James Joyce that aired on Bravo called Bloom is a Cod! The Bloomsday Centenary. The Globe and Mail called it “splendid and lively," "one outstanding party" and "pure pleasure".

Since then he has created programs for television, web and most recently interactive installations. This included a role as associate producer on the 2005-2006 Gemini-nominated-season of the current affairs program 360 Vision on Vision TV, featuring the documentary 'Mystery in Muskoka'; as well as the factual series Plastic Makes Perfect for Breakthrough Films and Television.

From 2007—2008 he was creative-story producer at the Royal Ontario Museum. There he wrote and produced a series on the history of the ROM for its Interactive Donor Wall, and developed the concept, wrote and produced a 13 part HD series and interactive installation on Canadian mining called the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame for their Earth Sciences Gallery.

As a reporter Ian has covered arts and culture, video-games, technology and more for such outlets as Now Magazine, Quill & Quire, The National Post, CBC and The Globe and Mail. In his three part-series on virtual worlds for The Globe and Mail online he conducted the first virtual interview by a Canadian journalist in the world of Second Life. He has also worked as a writer for comic books, with stories appeaing in the anthology Drawing the Line Again, as well as Shock Effect for DC Comics Zuda website, about which the Los Angeles Times said the "storytelling brings each panel to life flawlessly."

Currently an independent producer, Ian is busy creating commercials, documentaries and original web series for clients such as TVO, Random House and Open Book Toronto. With an eclectic range of experience in mediums from long-form documentary to feature-article-writing, Ian Daffern is constantly on the hunt for that next unshakeable hook.

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