Noah Segal

Co-President
Elevation Pictures Corp.

After starting as a producer’s assistant at Cambium Productions, Noah moved over to film distribution with New World – Mutual Films.  Noah spent 9 years at New World, (later re-titled Malofilm) rising through the ranks of the company to Vice President and General Manager. His responsibilities entailed overseeing Canadian Distribution activities for Malofilm’s new releases and catalogue titles in the Theatrical, Video and Television cycles.

Changing gears, Mr. Segal joined multinational BMG, the third largest entertainment company in the world, where he acted as Vice President of marketing for the music company’s Canadian operation.

In January of 1999, Noah rejoined the film business as Senior Vice President of Distribution with the then burgeoning entertainment company, Lions Gate Films. Rising to Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Noah ankled the company in August 2001 to form a new producing partnership entitled, "The 49th Parallel".

In the course of two years, Noah executive produced 4 films including the “Ginger Snaps” trilogy. Noah also executive produced the Cannes Film Festival 2004 award winning 3-D animated/documentary “Ryan”. The piece also went on to win an Oscar for best animated short. 

After the partnership ended, Noah began Memento Pictures. Through this endeavor, Noah executive produced the remake of the cult classic, “Black Christmas” that was a wide release by The Weinstein Company. He followed that with exec producing chores on a series of successful rock documentaries with Banger films, including, “Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey”, “Global Metal”, and “Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage”.

Noah re-entered distribution heading up the home entertainment division of Alliance Atlantis Entertainment, the largest entertainment company in Canada. When Entertainment One bought the company in 2013, Noah was installed as Co-President of Canada for the company. In his time with Alliance Films and Entertainment One, Noah executive produced 10 films and acted as an executive for the company in countless productions. This included his first foray into television with an executive producing credit on the hit reality TV show, “Undercover Boss: Canada”. 

In 2014, Noah co-founded Canada’s newest full service film and TV distributor, Elevation Pictures with Laurie May and financier, Teddy Schwarzman.  In its short five year existence, Elevation has quickly become a game changer in feature film distribution in Canada.  The company has won Playback’s distributor of the year, and won two consecutive People’s Choice Awards at the Toronto International Film Festival, with “The Imitation Game” and “Room”.  The company also released 2016’s Best Picture “Moonlight”.  

In late 2016, Noah expanded his duties to spearhead Elevation’s new production division. Elevation Productions is actively focused on producing and co-producing original film and TV content. The company produced Canadian features including “American Woman” (directed by Semi Chellas, starring Sarah Gadon, official selection at Tribeca Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival), “Random Acts of Violence” (directed by and starring Jay Baruchel) and co-productions including “The Nest” (directed by Sean Durkin starring Jude Law).

Current productions include “The Exchange” (directed by Dan Mazer) and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3” (sequel to worldwide phenomenon franchise). Elevation also has numerous projects in development including the TV series “Night Patrol” (to be directed by Jay Baruchel), and feature film “French Exit” (directed by Azazel Jacobs, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges).