Award-winning producer Borga Dorter launched Gearshift Films in 2010, and has produced more than forty productions to date. He recently produced the Amazon Prime/Sinking Ship Entertainment series BEYOND BLACK BEAUTY, a Canada/Belgium co-production, and is co-creator/executive producer on the BBC comedy series QUEEN OF OZ starring Catherine Tate.

His selected feature credits under the Gearshift banner include THE WHITE FORTRESS, Canada’s first official co-production with Bosnia-Herzegovina supported by Eurimages which premiered at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival and was selected as Bosnia’s official entry for the 2021 foreign language Oscar; THE LAST MARK starring Shawn Doyle, which was selected for the TIFF Industry Selects program in 2021; TAINTED, a noir thriller starring Alan Van Sprang (Star Trek Discovery) and John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones) which was picked up by Epic Pictures for US distribution and is being sold internationally by Hyde Park Entertainment; WITCHES IN THE WOODS starring Corbin Bleu (Disney’s High School Musical) which was released in the US by Shout Factory/XYZ Films and sold internationally by Voltage Pictures; and THE WAITING ROOM from Canadian auteur filmmaker Igor Drljaca which had its world premiere in competition in the 2015 Locarno International Film Festival followed by its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Other producing and executive producing credits include STAND-UP MAN which was the closing night movie of the 2017 Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, THE BET starring Douglas Hodge (Black Mirror), the mini-series RISING SUNS for NTD TV and Rogers TV, and more than twenty productions for the Hallmark Channel.

A dual Canada/EU citizen, Borga has co-produced and supervised productions in Canada and abroad, including Iceland, Malta, Ireland, UK, Belgium, France, Hungary, Austria, South Africa and Taiwan. He holds an MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and is based in Toronto, Canada.