About Us
Throughline Film Foundation
We operate at the intersection of culture, education, and artistry - supporting film, television, animation, theatre, and music so these works reach audiences and endure as part of our shared cultural legacy.
At our core, we believe stories are not commodities; they are inheritances. They belong to communities, cultures, and future generations.
Why Throughline Exists
Across the arts and film landscape, the systems that once supported meaningful cultural expression have changed. Many stories - especially those rooted in lived experience, cultural memory, and education - struggle to survive in environments shaped by short-term incentives and market predictability.
Throughline Film Foundation was created to address this gap. We exist to support artistic work that prioritizes cultural value, long-term stewardship, and public access, ensuring important stories can be developed responsibly and preserved beyond individual cycles or trends.
We believe culture is not disposable. Stories carry memory, identity, and meaning across generations. Throughline exists to help safeguard that inheritance - so film and artistic expression remain part of our shared cultural record, not just our entertainment economy.
Indigenous Peoples
Throughline partners primarily with Indigenous film students, emerging Indigenous writers and directors, young storytellers and language-keepers, and Indigenous-led arts programs.
Our role is to ensure Indigenous creators have the funding, mentorship, equipment, and pathways to public audiences to tell their own stories.
Where communities explicitly invite or support adaptation into film, animation, theatre, or music, cultural accuracy and educational value are prioritized over commercial interests, ensuring the final works serve community-defined goals of cultural continuity and learning.
Throughline works with Indigenous creators based in Canada, including those from Indigenous Nations outside Canada who are living, studying, or creating here.
Science & Art
Scientific and environmental knowledge is often communicated through specialized, technical language that can be difficult to access outside academic and research settings. Throughline supports visual storytelling that translates peer-reviewed and evidence-based research into cinematic forms audiences can understand and engage with.
Working in collaboration with scientists, researchers, educators, and artists, we help transform verified scientific knowledge into films and artistic works that make complex concepts - such as time, space, climate systems, and ecological processes - visually intelligible. Our approach prioritizes scientific accuracy, interpretive clarity, and public understanding, ensuring creative work remains grounded in established research while expanding its reach beyond academic contexts.
Underrepresented Voices
Throughline supports underrepresented storytellers in bringing lived experiences, folk traditions, and community histories to the screen and stage. By supporting these voices, we help ensure that diverse cultural perspectives are represented through film, theatre, and other artistic forms, expanding public understanding and cultural dialogue.
By creating access to resources, mentorship, and public audiences, we help ensure these voices are not lost or sidelined. This work contributes to a more inclusive cultural record - one that reflects the complexity, resilience, and diversity of human experience across generations.
Revitalizing Stage & Music Theatre
Throughline celebrates theatrical heritage while supporting the next generation of playwrights, directors, and performers. Through mentorship, funding, and access to development, we safeguard enduring works while creating space for experimentation and new voices.
We preserve musical traditions across cultures while commissioning new works that integrate with our film and theatre projects. Music is not background to our work - it is a living cultural archive that carries memory, identity, and meaning across generations.
Founder & Artistic Director
Throughline Film Foundation is a cultural organisation that uses film to deepen public engagement with the arts, education, and cultural inheritance.
Sebastian Belmont is an actor, writer, director, and creative producer whose work spans performance, storytelling, and cultural development across stage and screen. Shaped by an early life in the arts and a multidisciplinary creative practice, his work has been guided by a sustained interest in how artistic expression carries history, identity, and shared cultural meaning across generations.
He founded Throughline Film Foundation from the conviction that the arts are not secondary to public life, but essential to how culture is carried, questioned, and renewed. While Throughline uses film as its central platform, its vision is rooted in a broader commitment to artistic and cultural life across theatre, music, dance, and the visual arts.
Throughline was created in response to a cultural environment in which serious artistic work is too often treated as commercially disposable, structurally unsupported, or inaccessible to the public. Belmont’s vision for the organisation is to build stronger pathways between art and public life by supporting work that deepens cultural literacy, preserves artistic inheritance, and expands access to meaningful engagement with the arts.
At the heart of that vision is the belief that culture is not a luxury, but part of the shared inheritance of a society. Through Throughline, Belmont seeks to support artistically rigorous, culturally grounded work that can endure: work that invites reflection, strengthens public connection to the arts, and helps create a more literate, imaginative, and culturally alive civic sphere.
Meet the Team
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Eli Hogg
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Georgia Beswick
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Angelica Lockyer
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Ryan Page
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