From seed, to root, to bearing fruit.

 

DECISION TREE CONSULTING advances your creative, engagement and strategic goals through development of iterative and sustainable high-impact initiatives for projects, companies and organisations in the audiovisual industry.

Consultation Services include:

  • Support for public and private funding opportunities for:

    • Film, Screen, Sound/Audio — both institutional and commercial, operational and project-based

  • Development and project management for art, craft, and B2B (market) activities at screen-based festivals and organizations

  • Support for screen creatives - development/funding for production, festival strategy, marketing + communications, digital + social campaign management and web design

  • Supporting sectoral change initiatives in collaboration with industry, creative and cultural partners

Daniel Frank (he/him/zie/zir) is a seasoned cultural professional with 22 years experience in both the commercial and non-profit charitable arts and audiovisual sector. He/Zie has built a career on reciprocal passion for positive change in the industry and for audiences, championing partners and people with similar goals and passions.

He/Zie recently was Director of Distribution at Isuma Distribution International, leading a strategic plan for the company, launching a new website for the company, formalizing an official recognition status as an “Eligible Distributor” for Telefilm and Canada Media Fund - a first for an Indigenous distributor in Canada, and developing new the release strategy and execution from festivals to rights sales in broadcast, education and non-theatrical screenings for the TIFF ‘23 award winning TAUTUKTAVUK (WHAT WE SEE) which has screened over 60 times since its premiere from festivals to streamers to remote Indigenous communities.

Daniel’s additional experience also includes management or director roles at commercial companies such as Technicolor (now PictureShop) and Fae Pictures, and non-profit leading festivals such TIFF, Hot Docs, and imagineNATIVE as Institute Director.

During his time imagineNATIVE, he oversaw all aspects of year-round professional development programming including the imagineNATIVE Festival’s Industry Days , the NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema initiative with the Berlinale / European Film Market and managing a portfolio of over 25 industry partnerships for fiscal/in-kind sponsorship support with the development team. Daniel developed and executed both creative and market initiatives, including the ground-breaking 2167: Indigenous Storytelling in VR, the first Indigenous Feature Futures Forum and aggregated development, funding support and managed execution-to-dissemination of two keystone industry reports including On Screen Protocols & Pathways: A Media Production Guide to Working with Indigenous Canadian Communities, Cultures, Concepts & Stories.

He/Zie has worked in community on the board of Work in Culture, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers (LIFT), sat on the board of Pleasure Dome, and juried for Telefilm, Canada Media Fund + TIFF Talent Lab.

He/Zie produced, art directed and co-edited the award-winning short film Ruptura (2014) which played at festivals in Canada.

Daniel graduated with a BAA in Film Studies from TMU’s School of Image Arts and is currently enrolled in the Schulich School of Business for 2025.

He/Zie is also a queer, neurodiverse, disabled political leftist and a lover of Indigenous and genre film, drag (coming soon!), biking, Star Trek and Margaret Atwood novels, and most importantly, his son.