The studio

A film studio that has actually been on a set.

Synapz Productions is an AI-native film studio in Toronto and San Francisco. We make films, series, music, books, and digital work — blending sixteen years on set with a generative workflow built in-house.

Est. 2014 · DGC · WGC · CMPA

Synapz studio loft with Unreal viewport and motion-capture rig

Founder

Andrew Palmer

Founder · Author · Director

Author, screenwriter, and award-winning director/producer. Computer Engineering at McMaster, Advanced TV & Film at Sheridan, then sixteen years on set as an assistant director in Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Halifax — including Suits and The Boys. Member of the DGC, WGC, and CMPA. He founded Synapz in 2014 to make Canadian entertainment and developed the studio’s IP. He later co-founded SAGA to give filmmakers the tools he wished he had on a first feature.

SAGA

Russell Palmer

Executive Producer (Awake) · Co-founder & CEO, SAGA

Co-founder and CEO of SAGA — the AI filmmaking platform. Executive producer on select Synapz projects, including Awake.

What we make

Picture

Features, series, music videos, and branded films. Development through finish — treatments, boards, Unreal and motion capture, generative cinema, classical coverage.

Sound

Original songs, film and television scores, audiobooks, and advertising sound. Thirty years of performance in the room, generative tools on the desk.

Story

Literary and graphic novels, scripts, and IP development. We incubate worlds meant to live across more than one medium.

On generative cinema

We are not waiting for the tools to mature. We are using them to finish films.

Necessity is why this studio exists in its current form. High production value, small budgets, real deadlines. Unreal Engine, motion capture, and generative picture are not a gimmick here — they are how Awake gets cut in ninety days, how Crave lands as CGI animation, and how a music video can land like a hundred-thousand-dollar piece.

Work with us

Commissions, co-productions, catalog, and new IP. Tell us what you want to put in the world.

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