Atopia

For other uses, see Atopia (disambiguation).

Atopia is a production company and film distributor based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The company was founded in 2000 by Pascal Maeder. During the following decade, the company produced and released a string of critically acclaimed and award-winning feature films including Daniel Cross' S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic,^[1] Federico Hidalgo's A Silent Love,^[2][3] Simon Sauve's Jimmywork,^[4][5] Noel Mitrani's Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi,^[6] Laura Bari's Antoine^[7] Jephté Bastien's Sortie 67^[8] as well as André Forcier's Je me souviens.^[9]

Initially launched as an online film studio^[10] with the development of 39 episodic web films in 2001, Atopia became the first Canadian distributor to release its feature films online through early platforms such as Jaman.^[11]