Company of Women on the Screen is a boutique production company with a creative eye that looks towards telling social issue, arts, environmental and women’s stories.  We seek to tell stories with positive messaging that shine light on little known and unsung people and events.   Always looking for the intimate local story, we excel at telling stories with Global resonance.  COWS has been in the industry for more than three decades and we proudly mentor the next generations of storytellers in best practices, and best storytelling.

We are passionate environmentalists, trying to leave as small a footprint as possible on our planet, and trying to leave a better place in our wake. COWS believes strongly in sustainability as part of a larger ecosystem.  We believe the interconnectivity of all species, and aspire to preserve and foster a healthy planet. 

COWS believes that strong communities make strong individuals, and we try to tell stories that highlight and empower the public. Within small groups we are a microcosm of the greater world  and if we want a better world, we promote diversity, tolerance and collaboration.  In our projects, and our personal lives, we celebrate community.

Social Justice has long been at the core of stories told by COWS. Shining the spotlight on injustice is only part of the mandate – we strive to leave viewers with a call to action or a focus on positive solutions.

The Arts are the backbone of a strong society – without the Arts we have no meaning.  COWS continues to turn the camera on Arts in the community, and in the world. Always looking for creative ways to tell stories, we love to promote the wonderful ways that Arts not only enrich the world but inform its fundamental nature.

After 30 years working in Documentary COWS is returning to its first passion – dramatic storytelling.  We’ve developed a feature film  Cowboy Boots and a Mustang, about a mother/daughter coming of age story that we are passionately pitching around.  And we are working with two brilliant women to launch their first film ideas.

Always seeking new ways to tell stories, COWS is undertaking some exciting ventures into children’s and young adult animation.  We feel that there are many ways to learn and share information, and to that end we are working with the Edmonton animation community to build teams and pipelines and help each other launch new endeavors.  We are in development with two series, and a short, animated documentary.

COWS is an unabashedly feminist company. We believe in the equality of all individuals and will always continue to tell the stories of women in our community whose work has left the world a better place.  Over the years COWS has collected the oral histories of several prominent Edmonton Women include Margaret Ann Armor and Jane Ash Poitras. We believe women’s stories will keep being written out of history, if we don’t ourselves undertake to preserve them.