Our Company
Founded in 2004 by partners Harry Cherniak and Dusty Mancinelli, Inflo Films is a Toronto-based independent film production company. Our goal is to make thought provoking, engaging and commercially successful films. We see short films as an exciting platform from which we can develop our craft as filmmakers, build strong relationships within the film industry and prepare ourselves to create well-crafted feature length films.
Harry Cherniak
Producer
Harry Cherniak is a Toronto-based producer and corporate lawyer. In addition to producing Inflo Film’s short films Soap, Pathways and Broken Heart Syndrome, over the past few years Harry has worked in Los Angeles and Toronto as an assistant and then business affairs Consultant to Nicholas Tabarrok, President of Darius Films and one of Variety’s 2009 “10 Producers to Watch”. Additionally, this fall will mark Harry's fifth year working during the Toronto International Film Festival as a publicist with Star PR. In this role, he has worked on the Canadian publicity for a number of Academy Award-winning films.
Harry recently completed his term as a Student-at-Law at a major Canadian law firm and will return in the fall as an associate in the corporate law department. Harry holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Toronto, an MSc with Distinction from the London School of Economics and a BA in Honours Business Administration with Distinction from the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business.
Dusty Mancinelli
Writer ❘ Director ❘ Producer
Dusty Mancinelli is a Toronto-based writer, director, and producer. Dusty’s short films Soap (2009), Pathways (2011), and Broken Heart Syndrome (2012) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Additionally, his films have screened at festivals across North America, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival and Palm Springs International ShortFest. He has sold two of his short films to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board of Canada.
In 2012, his short film Pathways won the Audience Choice Award at the Hamilton Film Festival and Best Foreign Short at the Independents’ Film Festival. In 2007, shortly after graduating from University, his short film P.U.R.E. won Best Narrative at the Student Short Film Festival, Best Science Fiction Film at the Route 66 Film Festival and Best Short at the Secret City Film Festival.
From 2006 until 2011, Dusty worked as an assistant to Deepa Mehta. He was the second unit Director on Dilip Mehta’s Cooking with Stella, and the stills photographer and behind the scenes director for Deepa Mehta’s 2008 film, Heaven on Earth, and her current feature film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children. Dusty holds an Honours BFA with Distinction in Film Production from York University.
