Pasha Patriki

Pasha Patriki is a Canadian film producer, cinematographer, and film director. He was director of photography (also commonly referred to as 'Cinematographer") on the films like Please Kill Mr. Know It All,^[1] Gridlocked,^[2][3] The Sound,^[4] and the 2016 film Anonymous (also known as Hacker), noted for its polished and crisp visuals.^[5][6] Patriki is a founder of a film production & financing company, 9 Light Entertainment, which has executive-produced a number of films including Spare Parts and Broken Mile.^[7][8]

In January 2017, Patriki won the Best Cinematography award in the TV Drama category of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards for his work on the feature film Gridlocked,^[9][10] starring Dominic Purcell. Also in 2017, he directed as well was the cinematographer on Black Water, an action film starring Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme, released in 2018.^[11] In September 2017, Patriki's 9 Light Entertainment partnered with a Canadian film sales and distribution firm Raven Banner Entertainment to form Hangar 18 Media, a film development and production company.^[12] Since 2017, under Hangar 18 Media brand Patriki produced a number of films, notably Spare Parts (directed by Andrew Thomas Hunt),^[13] Nail In The Coffin: The Fall and Rise of Vampiro, a documentary about a wrestler called Vampiro, directed by Michael Paszt,^[14] V/H/S/94, Brooklyn 45, The Fight Machine, The Breach, and Sorry About the Demon. In 2023, Patriki produced Frankie Freako, a comedy-horror film directed by Steven Kostanski; the movie is set to be released in theaters on October 4, 2024.^[15] In the same year, Patriki directed the TV movie The Threat Next Door^[16] which premiered on Tubi, and worked as a Canadian producer on You Gotta Believe, the American sports film directed by Ty Roberts and starring Luke Wilson, Greg Kinnear, Sarah Gadon and Molly Parker.^[16] Also in 2023, Patriki, Slash, Michael Paszt, James Fler, Andrew T. Hunt and Rodrigo Gudiño launched the horror production company BerserkerGang.^[17] In 2024 BerserkerGang company announced production of Deathstalker, a reboot of 1983 Roger Corman-produced movie of the same name, written and directed by Steven Kostanski, executive produced by Slash, produced by Patriki and Paszt, and starring Daniel Bernhardt.^[18]