ABOUT US
Pelee Entertainment is a film, television and digital media company whose work is garnering accolades across North America. The company produces drama, documentary, and children’s entertainment for television, theatrical, and digital release.
Pelee Entertainment is actively exploring new relationships and partnerships that are bringing growth and success to the company and their partners’. With a reputation for collaborating on successful co-productions and securing financing to bring projects to market, the company is succeeding in its quest to be a trusted source for high-quality, award-winning television series.
Pelee Entertainment is named for the small spit of land jutting out into Lake Erie that is Canada’s second smallest national park. Producer/CEO Heidi Lasi spent many hours there as a youth, swimming, running, and playing on the beach, around the boardwalk, and in the unique Carolinian forest. This is where her lifelong love of nature and interest in protecting the environment was first born.
heidi lasi, producer/ceo
Pelee Entertainment was founded by award-winning producer and writer Heidi Lasi with the mission to become a strong creative and strategic force in the market, positioning the company to be a leading global player in entertainment.
A strong collaborator, she produced The Oasis Affair, is currently producing feature-length documentary Know Her Name for Super Channel and Hollywood Suite, and is in development on a number of exciting projects.
She is a graduate of the WIFT-Toronto / Schulich School of Business Media Leadership Program (2018) and sits on the Ottawa Film Office Advisory Committee.
Grégoire Laforce, Director of Development, Children and YA
As a child, Greg liked to play dress up and make believe.
As an adult, he served 17 years as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, achieving the rank of major, before realizing he was tired of playing that role.
Grégoire is now a writer of children's books who specializes in picture books. His debut picture book The Lost Drop was published in October 2023.
As a parent, Grégoire believes kids have much to teach adults about how to live and be in the world. Grégoire is particularly interested in creating stories and characters that speak to the child in all of us.
Send us your project! If you have a project you think would make for great children’s television, Greg would love to hear about it! You can email Greg at greg@pelee-entertainment.com.
Recognition of Territory
Honouring the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples
In the spirit of respect and reconciliation, Pelee Entertainment acknowledges that, as settlers, we benefit from the lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples for millennia. Working primarily in Ottawa and Toronto, we acknowledge that the land we work on is unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory and the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. These lands are now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
At Pelee Entertainment, we honour all First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and their valuable past and present contributions to this land.
The Shine Network offers a free online learning module called PACT that was developed with the NSI, designed for non-Indigenous members of the industry.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final report calls for 94 actions toward restoring a balanced relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler communities in this country.
The University of Alberta offers a free online course from an Indigenous perspective that explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.
