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.
In 2006, we produced the well-received short comedy Death to Charlie!, which was picked up by Ouat! Media. In 2007, we released our next short, the quirky satire P.U.R.E., which has won several awards and has played at more than a dozen film festivals across the U.S. and Canada including the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the Whistler International Film Festival and the Washington DC Independent Film Festival. In 2009, our short film Soap premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, screened at the Palm Springs International ShortFest and the LA Short Fest and was sold to the CBC. Our most recent short, Pathways, will have its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Harry Cherniak
Producer
Harry Cherniak is a Toronto-based producer and corporate lawyer. In addition to producing Inflo Film’s short films Soap and Pathways, 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. While he was in film school, Dusty’s short film P.U.R.E. won the award for Best Narrative at the Student Shorts Film Festival in Toronto. Since film school, Dusty has established himself as an innovative filmmaker and photographer.
In 2009, Dusty wrote and directed the short film Soap, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and aired nationally on the CBC. Recently, he finished post-production on his short film Pathways, which he wrote, directed and produced and will have its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. In addition to making his own films, Dusty was the second unit Director on Dilip Mehta’s Cooking with Stella, which was shot in New Delhi, India and premiered as a Gala Presentation at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
When not making films, Dusty has continued to build his reputation as a photographer. In addition to running his own photoblog, Dusty did all of the promotional stills and behind the scenes footage for Deepa Mehta’s 2008 film, Heaven on Earth, and her current feature film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children. Dusty is currently working as a freelancer for Hamilton-Mehta Productions Inc., a Canadian production company founded by Producer David Hamilton and Academy Award nominated Director Deepa Mehta. Dusty holds an Honours BFA with Distinction in Film Production from York University.
