MONGREL MEDIA INC.

Mongrel Media was founded by its President, Hussain Amarshi in 1994. We are one of Canada's leading film distribution companies specializing in art house, foreign and independent feature films and documentaries. We are also home to some of the very best films made in Canada. Each year, we release on average 40 films in theatres and over 80 films on DVD. We have a library of over 600 titles.

The name of the company -- Mongrel Media -- was inspired by two great contemporary authors -- Salman Rushdie and Michael Ondaatje: Rushdie called his book The Satanic Verses "a love song to our mongrel selves" and Ondaatje made 3 films in the 1970s under his film production company called Mongrel Films (now distributed by Mongrel Media). To us, Mongrel encapsulates our aim to bring the best of the world, in all its diversity and richness, to Canadian audiences.