Jay Firestone Biography

Fast Facts

• Named a finalist for Ontario's Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998
• Won a Chrysler Canada's People's Choice Award for his work on "La Femme Nikita․"
• Graduated from McMaster University in 1979 with a degree in commerce
• Co-founded Alliance Communications in 1985 with entertainment industry producers and served as the company's Vice Chairman for the next decade
• After leaving Alliance Communications in 1995, he created Fireworks Entertainment, which would eventually go on to produce well-known films like 1987's "Robocop․"
• After Fireworks Entertainment was acquired by CanWest Global in 1998, he would establish Prodigy Pictures which would go on to produce Canadian television series such as "Lost Girl․"