Johnny Hockin

In 2011 Johnny Hockin produced the Tron fan film "Tron: Destiny". The film has more than 5 million views online. In 2013, he launched Juniper Island Films to produce his first short film Manifold. Manifold starred Stephen McHattie, premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, and garnered 200,000 views and a Vimeo staff pick in the first month it was online.

In 2015, Juniper Island went into production on award-winning filmmaker Valerie Buhagiar’s 2nd feature It’s Hard To Be Human, which is expected in 2017.

He is also known to many Canadian as the former face of movies on MTV Canada, interviewing hundreds of filmmakers and stars. Over the course of 5 years, he won a Gemini award for Best Talk Series for his work on MTV Live, Ryan Gosling brooded with him, Nic Cage looked at him funny, George Clooney charmed him, Jason Bateman made fun of his name, and Justin Timberlake sang to him.

Werner Herzog follows him on Twitter.