Where vision meets execution.
Founded at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2025, Northgrave Pictures is a Canadian horror focused production company created by Cheryl Meyer and Justin Harding to deliver bold, entertaining genre films at smart, efficient budgets.
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Together, Meyer and Harding bring four decades of experience producing series, features, commercials, and branded content through streamlined teams built for speed, creativity, and value. Their work has been recognized with Canadian Screen Awards, multiple festival selections and wins.
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With 20+ years of experience across development and post-production, and a background in marketing, Meyer brings an end-to-end command of how films get made and how they find an audience. At Northgrave, she builds every project with a 360° plan: development through release, shaped at every step by audience engagement, marketing strategy, and launch momentum.
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Harding brings his expertise in practical effects and emerging technologies to ensure cinematic creatures, characters, and consistently top tier execution. Harding's experience working with the horror greats of Eli Roth and Corin Hardy has taught him who to create high concept films designed to evolve into long term franchises with merchandising potential.
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With access to Canadian incentives, exceptional cast and crew, and unforgettable landscapes, Northgrave Pictures is positioned to create globally competitive horror with legacy potential. The company presented its slate at the American Film Market in 2025 and will continue international expansion at the European Film Market in 2026.
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Utilizing cutting-edge technology for mind-blowing audience experiences.
A team who cares about delivering the highest quality of every frame.
A singular focus on executing horror with extreme tension, dread and scares.
Visionaries bringing stories to life.
Head of Development
Cheryl Meyer leads the development of Northgrave's horror slate, drawing on her years in production and writers rooms to shape original high-concept horrors that maximize entertainment and value. As an award-winning Canadian writer/producer, her work spans elevated horror and psychological thrillers with critical and commercial impact. She earned the 2025 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing, was named Playback Magazine's Ten to Watch (2024), and reached #1 on Hulu with Carved, following its Best Horror Comedy win at Nightmares Film Festival.
Her dystopian thriller All the Lost Ones, starring Devon Sawa, received a theatrical release, was featured on The New York Times "What to Watch," and won Best Writing and Best Narrative Feature at the Vancouver Horror Show, while her debut feature The Last Mark was a TIFF Industry Select. Her psychological thriller script Invalid was selected for the Wscripted Cannes Screenplay List, and her recent honors include the STARZ #TakeTheLead Award and the Loreen Arbus Foundation Fellowship—underscoring a voice that consistently delivers bold, authored genre storytelling with mainstream reach. With over twenty years experience and having worked on both sides of the camera, in development and post-production, Meyer is a multi-faceted storyteller who knows how to take an idea from concept to market. She understands a film's success continues beyond execution into its marketing and promotion.
Head of Production
In his role as Head of Production at Northgrave Pictures, Justin Harding combines technical expertise with a clear passion for producing consistently high quality horror. Harding's a Toronto-based, multi-award-winning director, writer, and producer whose work blends visceral practical effects, original creature design, and relentless genre tension.
His breakout feature Carved—expanded from the inaugural Huluween-winning short—released on Hulu and rolled out internationally on Disney+, cementing a rare short-to-feature success story. Harding has written and directed premium episodic horror for Max on Urban Legend and The Haunted Museum under Eli Roth's producing banner, served as Second-Unit Director on the studio feature Thanksgiving, and previously co-wrote/co-directed the indie feature Making Monsters for Samuel Goldwyn Films. A DGC-listed filmmaker and co-founder of Bokeh Studios, Harding has amassed 50+ festival awards and a reputation for delivering bold, cinematic horror with mainstream reach.
Our original collection of genre works.
A lonely long-haul trucker abducts a stranded man and traps him inside the decaying 1970s apartment she has built in the back of her refrigerated trailer. As she carries him across the country in a delusional attempt to create the perfect relationship, he discovers she will murder anyone who threatens her fantasy. His only hope for survival is to escape before she reaches his family and eliminates them to keep him all to herself.
After a car accident leaves Lynn, an affluent and successful woman, physically disabled, she has premonitions that her live-in nurse, Alex, wants her dead so Alex can take Lynn's place in Lynn's seemingly-perfect life.
After chronic pain costs her the man she loves, Georgia joins a remote Northern retreat where cold dips and psychedelics mask a Nordic healer's belief that suffering can only be cured by killing the body that feels it and what begins as a wellness getaway becomes a fight for survival when their sociopathic host transforms ice baths into executions.
When a hidden affair awakens the ancient curse of The Itch, a devoted surgeon's forbidden lust transforms into a nightmarish obsession that drives him to violently destroy his own family.
After a bad breakup, Simone's determined to focus her energy on a new crush, but on a group weekend in the woods camping with a bachelor party, she discovers ancient parasitic spiders hellbent on reproduction, and something even more disgusting and dangerous than that: the true colors of her crush.
A traumatized widow becomes the lone witness to a murder and pursues the case, along with the victim's brother, for the closure she never got until the killer turns her grief into a deadly weapon.