WHO WE ARE

AMY WERTZ is a Saulteaux-Cree-Scottish producer originally from Saskatchewan and is a member of the Cowessess First Nation.As an arts administrator, she has worked with Métis dance company V’ni Dansi and national dance presentation company New Dance Horizons.

Amy graduated with a Master’s degree in English Literature in 2007 having studied representations of the body as sacred space in the poetry of Métis poet, Gregory Scofield. During her time at university, she was coordinator of the First Nations University of Canada’s writing clinic, and she sat on various student committees.

Amy lives on the ancestral unceded traditional territories of the Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Squamish, Stó:lō and Tsleil-Wauthth First Nations (Port Moody) with her son, daughter, husband and dog. She enjoys yoga, jogging and organizing her neighbourhood book club.

DYLAN WERTZ has been working as a writer / producer / director in the Canadian television industry for the past two decades. He cut his teeth in scripted comedy writing for the #1 series Corner Gas (CTV) before moving on to scribe some of the best-known comedies of the early aughts including Hiccups (CTV), InSecurity (CBC), and renegadepress.com (Global & APTN).

 From there, Dylan's passion for telling unique stories led him to unscripted television, writing on documentary series such as Emergency Room: Life and Death at VGH (Knowledge Network), Yukon Gold (History), The Bachelor and Bachelorette Canada (City TV), and High Arctic Haulers (CBC). 

 Over the last four years, Dylan was show-runner on the tv series Dr. Savannah: Wild Rose Vet (Cottage Life & APTN) PUSH (CBC) and Crip Trip (AMI / TVO).

 Recently, Dylan started his own production company - Deerwood Pictures - with his wife Amy where they have a number of scripted and non-scripted series in development. He is also penning his first novel  about life in small-town Saskatchewan during the '90s. He is a Capricorn with a penchant for cookie dough ice cream and dill pickle chips, and lives in Vancouver with his lovely wife and two rotten kids.