Jane Charles, with 20+ years in the film industry, has recently produced the films: Switchmas, Fat Kid Rules the World, Grassroots and SOLD, with Oscar-winning director Jeffrey Brown and executive producer Emma Thompson, which was filmed in India & Nepal and has won 4 audience awards and 2 jury awards on the international film festival circuit.As a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, Jane worked in production on the original Cannel Films shows 21 Jump Street, Booker, Wise Guy, Neon Rider (with the late Winston Reckert) and the feature films Bird On A Wire (Goldie Hawn, Mel Gibson), Run (Patrick Dempsey, Kelly Preston) and Pure Luck (Danny Glover and Martin Short), as well as several TV movies. Jane’s first feature films as producer, Cyberteens In Love and Once In a Blue Moon, were distributed internationally, and premiered at the Montreal and Toronto International Film Festivals. She has also produced countless television commercials, television shows and music videos for Sting, Harry Connick Jr and Our Lady Peace. Beginning in 1996, as Executive Producer, Jane successfully ran Apple Box Productions (1996 – 2002) and Run Spot Run Films (2002 – 2007) before relocating to Seattle, WA where she is an impact producer, making cause-based films that entertain and enlighten and is co-founder of the non-profit Stolen Youth www.stolenyouth.org.