Producer, director, writer, ex-farm boy Kim Saltarski has applied his dynamic bald brain to over 400 hours of original animated and live action family, tween, adult comedy, documentary, reality TV, and movie programming. His bevy of broadcasters/streamers includes Nickelodeon, Netflix, Amazon, CTV, The Comedy Network, YTV, CBC, Disney Channel, Global, Discovery Channel, BBC Kids, and Cartoon Network.

Kim rose through the movie and TV mini-series world as an A.D. and location manager to find his true home above the line. He brings his wealth of experience and enthusiasm to Pixel Palette Inc as a producer/executive producer, spearheading its slate of elevated thriller TV & film projects and thought-provoking documentaries.

His ground-breaking feature documentary, “About Turn: Veterans Transforming Trauma”, is currently in post-production, with a release date of early Fall 2206. Kim recently served as executive producer and wrote on the new TVOKids series, “Burps, Butts & Bones,” which he co-created with Karen Hawes for Sphere Media. Previously, he penned 14 episodes and directed seven on the live-action eco-kids’ series “Leo’s FishHeads” with Fifth Ground Entertainment for TVOKids, and also wrote and directed the second season 2’s incarnation “Leo’s Pollinators”. Kim also wrote on the Netflix/Mattel animated preschool series, “Deepa & Anoop”.  Plus, he co-wrote a romcom Hallmark TV movie, “A Tail of Love” for Leif Films and is currently shopping a live action fantasy YA TV series “Legends Unleashed” supported by Telefilm.

For Kim, length is no boundary to telling a great story. Whether it’s the commercials he’s directed with Northern Lights Direct for “Plan Canada”, “Children International” and “MarcAngelo Foods”, “SelectQuote”, “5-Hour TEA”, or penning nine screenplays. His feature scripts include the family fantasy adventure “Druidstone” and the live action/CG comedy “The Big Electric Skunk” which were optioned by Stephen J. Cannell Productions, Knightscove Entertainment and Screenworks Media. Kim also developed an animated family comedy screenplay “Clay’s Cruise” with Atul Rao for Arc Productions (Gnomeo & Juliet).

Amazing Ain’t It has produced five films in Kim’s anthology “human beacon” documentary series. The documentary short, “Andre The Anti-Giant” supported by bravo Canada won Best Documentary Shattering Stereotypes in Moscow at the 9^th International Disability Film Festival. In 2015, he directed and produced the riveting 1 hour documentary “IF THE POET” for CBC and is currently on Amazon Prime US. It’s the moving, irreverent and inspiring story of IF, aka Ian French, a middle-aged man with a family, mortgage, and career, who suddenly decides to crash the world of competitive Slam Poetry. His 3^rd human beacons installment of was “Reimagining Humanity” – Therapist/Social Ecologist Mark Skelding’s personal reflection on how eco-anxiety angst can be one of the most important evolutionary drivers of our times. It was recently licensed by The Green Channel. The 4^th documentary installment “Jack’s Garage” is the transformative story of one man’s triumph over cancer using medical cannabis and a plant-based diet to heal himself and thousands around the world. This award-winning documentary can be seen on Xumo, Telus, Social Club TV, Vimeo On Demand and Relay. His latest documentary is “MEND with Dignity” about a rural Ontario compassionate care group using medical cannabis to heal themselves and their community. It just got picked up by Amazon Prime Video worldwide along with Vimeo On Demand, Overdrive, Telus and Tubi.

Kim produced and directed a riveting docu-adventure reality series, “Operation Unplugged” for travel+escape channel. The 6 x1 hour series threw 8 techno-obsessed people into the wilds of Canada’s National Parks on the adventure of a lifetime. Kim also produced “Canada’s Worst Driver 2” for Discovery Channel without a receiving a single speeding ticket.

On the comedy flipside, Kim was the executive producer/showrunner on 78 ½ hr episodes of “popcultured with Elvira Kurt” for The Comedy Network… Canada’s take on The Daily Show skewering pop culture. He produced 130 ½ hour episodes of “Out Of Bounds with John Oakley” for Global. He also produced four “Cream of Comedy” TV specials for The Comedy Network.   Kim created, wrote and produced 285 hours of “YTV’s The Breakfast Zone”, North America’s first live national morning show for kids. He co-created and produced YTV’s #1 rated comedy daypart, “Brain Wash” inspiring his intense fascination with lint.  

Animation writing-wise, Kim wrote on the preschool animation series “Uma & Devan: Namaste” for Netflix India and Amazon. Kim wrote on all three seasons of the hit animation comedy series “League of Super Evil” seen on Cartoon Network US / YTV / BBC Kids and gaggle of other countries around this wondrous world. This adds to his list of comedy animation writing credits that includes: “Mona The Vampire”, “Hoze Houndz” and “Freaky Stories”.

With his former partners, Atul Rao and Greg van Riel, collectively known as “The Membrains”.  they created and Executive Produced “The Basement”, “Morning Scramble” and “The Weekend Chill” for The Fox Family Channel. Their department created over 35 hours of mind-warping host-driven interstitial programming, 300 shorts and a series pilot. They were also the brains, voices and vision behind “The No Yell Motel” interstitials for Fox Kids. The Kids WB! Film Roman, Disney Channel, Klasky Csupo, and Nicktoons have all harnessed their “Mem-minds” to develop projects for them. Plus, their marquee TV property development expertise had them reinventing franchises for everyone from Terrytoons’ Heckle & Jeckle and Mighty Mouse, Raggedy Ann, and Fred Penner, to Roy Rogers, and The Three Stooges.

With a background that spans writers’ rooms, live-action movie sets, animation pipelines, and network-level showrunning, Kim brings the rare ability to drive a series from concept to delivery. Vision-led and production-proven, he’s the kind of multi-hyphenate who elevates every project—and gets it made.