Coral Aiken is a director, producer, and hobby gardener based in Toronto. Through her company Aiken Heart Films (AHF), founded in 2014, Coral has been supporting Canadian filmmakers to create short films and narrative features for over a decade.

Coral’s films have screened in competition at Cannes Cinéfondation, TIFF, Sarajevo, Seattle, Buenos Aires, in the Locarno Academy, and on Nowness.com. AHF is currently in post on The Well, the highly anticipated, narrative feature debut from Oscar-nominated director Hubert Davis. The Well will be released globally by XYZ Films.

Directed by the acclaimed Canadian director Valerie Buhagiar, Carmen (2022) is Aiken Heart’s first international co-production. Shot in Malta and starring Natascha McElhone, Carmen premiered at the Whistler Film Festival in 2021 winning best cinematography in the Borsos competition, and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.

Coral Aiken studied as a director at York University, MFA and at Berlinale Talents. She is an alumna of TIFF Studio, and EAVE. Coral teaches at LIFT, York University and the Canadian Film Centre. 

Coral is represented by the United Talent Agency as a line producer and has worked for clients including Lionsgate, Elevation Pictures, Lisa Pictures, Discovery Channel, National Film Board of Canada, Scythia Films, Film Forge, MDFF, and Babe Nation Creations.

Rebecca Rogers is an associate producer at Aiken Heart Films. She is currently helping to develop, package, and finance a variety of projects on Aiken Heart’s slate.

Rogers is Co-Producing The Well, the narrative debut from Academy Award-nominated director Hubert Davis. Currently in post, The Well will be released globally by XYZ Films.

Rogers has a multi-disciplinary, creative entrepreneurial background in film producing, installation and digital art creation, and User Experience (UX). She holds a BA in Communications focussing in multimedia art from Concordia University, Montreal. In 2022, Rogers co-created, -produced, and -hosted Slumber Party, a web series with longtime collaborator Jackie Batsinduka.

Her previous works include Post-Production Coordinating feature drama Verona (2023, dir. Sebastian Back); UX consulting for The September Issues culture & fashion magazine on their first digitized issue FUTURISM (2020); producing the narrative short Geni (2019, dir. Jackie Batsinduka) which premiered at the Regent Park Film Festival in 2019; and co-creating Oscillations (2018, immersive video-instalation) with Natalia Ramirez and Sofia Munera, which included an interactive sculpture and soundbites from field interviews with environmental experts and community members collected in the Florida Everglades and Montreal's Mount-Royal swamp. 

Rogers has also worked as a freelance writer for film production companies including Sandbox Inc, Fifth Town Films, and Determination Pictures.