Andrew Nisker

Founder @Take Action Films

CA

Through social media campaigns, speaking engagements, festival screening and online sales, Take Action Films aims to help change the world, one film at a time.Take Action Films was born when Andrew Nisker decided to self distribute his award winning feature length documentary Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home (Sundance, CBC, Super Channel, TF1). After being selected for the Hot Doc’s film festival in 2008, Garbage, through the efforts of the team at Take Action Films, went on to be translated into six different languages and screened to over three million people internationally.Over the years, Take Action Films has worked tirelessly to network online, build social communities and rally audiences around social environmental subjects. The website for the documentary Chemerical – Redefining Clean For A New Generation (CBC, Netflix, TF1, YESdocu) has resources to help people detoxify their homes from harmful toxins found in common cleaning and personal care products.Corporate outreach has seen Take Action Films work with some of worlds biggest companies having screened its films at Walmart’s head office, McDonalds world HQ, ING bank and working on an extensive earth month screening series with Tim Hortons. Nisker recently gave a talk at TedX. Inspired through feedback from viewers, Nisker wrote the e-green cleaning guide The Chemerical Cookbook which has sold over copies and continues to help people rid their lives of toxic cleaning products.2013 saw the release of award winning film, Orange Witness, the untold story of the domestic use of the dioxin laced chemical Agent Orange (CBC). Our latest fillm, Dark Side Of The Chew is currently being broadcast on TVO, DR (Denmark), Da Ai TV (Taiwan) with pending television sales through Espresso Television (UK). In 2017, Nisker\'s film, Dad And The Dandelions debuted on CBC\'s The Nature Of Things. Late in 2018 is the premiere of Take Action\'s latest film, Ground War on Documentary.

York University

BFA, Film Production and Screenwritting

York University

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Film/Screening Writing