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Disada Productions was formed in 1971. It started out as a live action and animation production company with a $10,000 bank loan. Since then it has quietly, very quietly gone about its business and is almost proud to be the best-kept secret in Canada’s communications field. We have produced films and videos for television and theatres, educational and corporate markets and graphics from advertisements to record album covers. It is the extent of its experience that is both interesting and telling about the company.

Our company were one of the first in Canada to explore computer animation, back in 1983. It secured a patent on a new system to combine animation with live-action footage and sold the system to Universal Studios. Now we are exploring how to push the boundaries of current programs such as Macromedia’s Flash.

We created the first Canadian syndicated newspaper comic strip to be published both as a daily black and white comic and on weekends in color. We have written children’s books, produced museum exhibitions, and even ran and programmed the city’s largest movie theatre.

Disada has an extensive collection of rare animation art and artifacts going back to the silent era of Felix the Cat and Windsor McCay. Its collection has been the source of many exhibitions in museums around the world. In mid-2002 four different ones are in negotiation. Film retrospectives of rare films from its collection have been held in cities in North America.

Disada’s founder, Peter Adamakos has given back to the industry he enjoys so much. He has been a Vice President of ASIFA, President of the nation-wide Society of Film Makers and one of the three founding persons of its successor, the Canadian Academy of Motion Picture and Television Arts and Sciences. He has testified on film matters at Parliamentary Committees, been a juror for awards, and on the federal government’s Film Advisory Committee.

Peter has written articles about our craft and have been written about in books and in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television reports and interviews. We have had film retrospectives of our work as far away as Turkey and have been guests of honour at conventions, guest speakers and lecturers at organizations and universities. We have obtained patents for inventions and copyrights for our cartoon characters.

We teach at schools and have helped create curricula for new film schools. Right now we are working on a film about whales, a computer and traditional animation cartoon, a television pilot, museum exhibitions and a television special.

Tomorrow we will be working on more of the same and a lot more. We will follow wherever our curiosity and our imaginations lead as we always have. It is why after over thirty years, with all the companies we have seen come and go, and all the changes we have seen, we are still here, enjoying all we do. If a project is challenging and interesting, we will want to do it, and do it well. The best products yield the best results and success, over and over again.