About Us

Throughline Film Foundation

Libraries preserve books. Museums preserve art. Throughline Film Foundation preserves stories through cinema.
We faithfully adapt classical literature into film and television so that the world's great works can continue to educate, inspire, and endure in the medium of every generation.
At our core, we believe stories are not commodities; they are inheritances. They belong to communities, cultures, and future generations.
Throughline exists to build a permanent cinematic library of humanity's literary heritage.

Why Throughline Exists

Stories have carried humanity's knowledge, beliefs, imagination, and identity across generations for thousands of years. Yet every generation experiences stories differently, and many of the world's greatest literary works become less accessible as culture and technology evolve.
Throughline exists to ensure these works continue to live in the artistic language of each generation. Through faithful screen adaptation, we preserve literature not by replacing it, but by carrying it forward.

Indigenous Stories

Throughline Film Foundation believes every culture's stories are part of humanity's shared inheritance.
We work alongside Indigenous Nations and communities, language-keepers, scholars, and creators to preserve and share Indigenous literary, oral, and cultural traditions through faithful screen adaptation where communities choose to participate.
These collaborations are community-led. Throughline does not reinterpret or appropriate Indigenous stories; we support the preservation of cultural knowledge in ways determined by the communities themselves.
When invited to adapt stories into film, animation, or other visual media, we work closely with community representatives to ensure cultural integrity, educational value, and long-term stewardship remain at the centre of every project.

Science & Scholarship

Faithful adaptation requires more than preserving a story. It requires understanding the knowledge that shaped it.

Every Throughline adaptation is developed in collaboration with scholars and subject-matter experts whose fields relate to the original work. Each adaptation brings together experts whose knowledge relates directly to the original work. This may include historians, scientists, philosophers, linguists, theologians, archaeologists, educators, cultural advisors, engineers, physicians, or other specialists.

Their role is not to reinterpret the work, but to help the production understand its historical, cultural, scientific, and intellectual context. This collaborative approach strengthens the authenticity of each adaptation and ensures that the ideas contained within the original work are presented with care, accuracy, and respect.

Cultural Heritage

Throughline believes cultural heritage extends beyond the literary canon. Every culture possesses stories that have shaped its identity, values, and collective memory.
Our collection includes works from diverse literary traditions and oral cultures, ensuring that humanity's cinematic library reflects the richness of the world's storytelling traditions rather than a single historical perspective.

Theatre & Music

Stories have never existed in words alone. Across cultures, theatre and music have preserved history, identity, belief, and collective memory for centuries.

Throughline recognizes theatre and music as essential parts of humanity's cultural heritage. Alongside our screen adaptations, we support the preservation and presentation of dramatic and musical works whose artistic and historical significance continues to shape communities today.

Whether preserving traditional forms or presenting enduring works for contemporary audiences, our goal remains the same: to ensure these cultural expressions remain accessible, understood, and valued by future generations.

Founder & Artistic Director

Sebastian Belmont is an actor, writer, director, and creative producer whose work has been shaped by a life lived across cultures, communities, and artistic disciplines.

The son of a father who worked with UNHCR, Belmont lived in 14 countries and more than 35 cities before the age of ten. He later spent part of his formative years in Nhulunbuy, Northeast Arnhem Land, where he worked with the Yirralka Rangers’ fire management team, contributed to the local arts community, and helped organize the Garma Festival. During his time in Arnhem Land, he formed close relationships within the Yolŋu community and was given a skin name by Yolŋu leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu.

Belmont began directing theatre while still young through Gove Arts Theatre. His production of Mother received recognition for his work as an emerging director in the Northern Territory,

He later trained as an actor at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), before continuing to work across performance, writing, directing, and filmmaking. His poetry was also recognized during his time in Western Australia.

Now back in Vancouver, Belmont’s creative practice brings together many of the influences that shaped his early life: storytelling, cultural exchange, collaboration, and an interest in how stories survive as they move between generations and mediums.

He founded Throughline Film Foundation from the belief that important stories should remain accessible as the way people experience culture changes. Through the Foundation, he is working to build a permanent Cinematic Library of faithful screen adaptations, bringing filmmakers together with scholars, experts, educators, and communities to preserve stories with the context and integrity that allowed them to endure.

Libraries preserve books. Museums preserve art. Cinema can help preserve stories.