Founded in 2004 in Toronto, Canada, Victory Man Productions is a full-service, independent, entertainment production company founded with the mandate to produce stimulating and commercially viable Canadian television programs and feature films.
Michael Sparaga, President: An honours grad of York University’s Film Department, Michael’s debut feature, the superhero-comedy Sidekick (Warner Home Video) was a true Canadian indie success story. Sidekick enjoyed a lengthy, award-winning film festival run and cross-Canada theatrical tour before going on to sell the world over and have its remake rights acquired by Universal’s Focus Features.
Michael’s follow-up feature was the workplace-comedy Servitude (Alliance Films/Bell Media), co-starring Dave Foley, Margot Kidder and Enrico Colantoni. Developed with Ivan Reitman, Servitude was the first film greenlit out of Telefilm and the CFC’s Features Comedy Lab. It was theatrically released in Canada and picked up for multiple international territories.
Michael produced and directed the critically-acclaimed feature documentaries The Missing Ingredient (Blue Ice Docs/Netflix), about old school NYC restaurants, and the star-studded United We Fan (Blue Ice Docs/Super Channel), about the history of TV fan campaigns, which celebrated a world premiere at Hot Docs before going on to screen at other top-tier fests like AFI DOCS, DOC NYC, and BFI Flare.
Michael’s latest production is the thriller Humane (IFC Films/Elevation Pictures) directed by Caitlin Cronenberg and starring Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Peter Gallagher and Enrico Colantoni. It was theatrically released in North America on April 26, 2024.
When not producing under the Victory Man banner, Michael works with other filmmakers as a screenwriter, story editor and producer in various capacities. He is proud to be the co-writer of Zoe Leigh Hopkins’ first feature Kayak to Klemtu (Scythia Films/Mongrel Media), which won the People’s Choice Award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Art Festival.