Tony Coleman's career in the entertainment industry began with a super 8 movie camera, which he used to create short stop-motion animated sci-fi films for fun and school projects during his high school years.
After being accepted into the Radio and Television program at Ryerson in Toronto, Tony won three awards and a bursary for his student productions, with a particular interest in film and video editing.
Following his time at Ryerson, Tony played bass guitar professionally for a few years, until his bandmates who had signed a record deal needed to create a music video, and he was asked to direct it.
The success of the music video led to a junior editor position at the company where he edited the video, and Tony quickly discovered the creative satisfaction he gained from editing, as well as the financial benefits.
He went on to cut a variety of corporate videos and broadcast sports programs, before being hired to finish a low-budget science fiction feature film, Strange Horizons, where he not only edited the film but also created visual effects.
This work led to three more feature film editing gigs, including Carver's Gate, 2103: Deadly Wake, and Falling Fire.
In 1997, Tony began working at the CBC, where he edited the television series Undercurrents, which was nominated for multiple awards and won a Gemini Award for best investigative series.
After three seasons on Undercurrents, Tony moved on to edit long-form documentaries for the CBC Network Documentary Unit, earning multiple Gemini nominations for both his editing and visual effects work.
In 2010, Tony released his first feature film documentary, Mighty Uke: The Amazing Comeback of a Musical Underdog, which was created with his partner Margaret Meagher and their company Tiny Goat Films.
The documentary became an international hit, leading to The Mighty Uke Roadshow, a new kind of music-making/film experience that toured Europe and North America.
In 2013, Tony began editing episodes of CBC Nature of Things for a variety of independent producers, and in 2018, he and Margaret released their second feature documentary, Miniature, which was broadcast on CBC Doc, Superchannel, NHK, and a host of European broadcasters.
