Character Driven Media is the umbrella for Narnia Productions, GigTickets and EnviroDriven and has been serving creative folks in the performing and visual arts community since 1979.

Throughout their many years working on productions, in business, teaching, directing and working in the field of theatre and live events, photography, writing and filmmaking, we have been lending our support and expertise to projects of all sizes from school and community productions to major rock shows. Here are just a few examples....

Following in a three-generation tradition of photography and filmmaking, founder Joan Isberg Herron began her career as a photographer/writer as the owner of a successful studio and writer/photographer for the Victoria Times-Colonist's Islander Magazine as well as Monday and Island Parent Magazines, also based in Victoria. While continuing to pursue her love of music, theatre and directing through community and professional avenues in her her hometown, Victoria, BC and on Saltspring Island, she began melding and sharing those passions through her Behind The Curtain workshops for kids from as young as 18 months to 18 years of age. As a lover of C.S. Lewis' Narnian Chronicles and a fellow believer in both Lewis' ideas about developing creativity in children, Joan developed Narnia Productions which was trademarked in Canada in 1991. Following Lewis' own philosophy, Joan based her character driven workshops on the idea that the unique gifts and talents of each person involved in a production or project needs to be identified and nourished early on in life and that the process of putting together a production- both on stage and behind the scenes- was the perfect medium for developing the three foundational principles:

Adventure- challenging oneself in areas that they may not have otherwise discovered and stepping 'through' into a new experience.

Imagination- the use of creativity and talents to solve problems as they arise in the context of a resource-rich environment.

Honour- valuing each person as a unique individual with their own specialized set of gifts and recognizing that all of these gifts, working in unity, are needed and appreciated, while gaining respect for the production process as a whole.

These ideas remain at the core of Character Driven Media which began offering filmmaking workshops to young artists and techies through our popular Behind The Lens workshops which utilize the same principles and ideas developed a decade earlier. As a natural offshoot of the workshops, Joan and her husband Tim who himself teaches theatre at the university level and works a a lighting designer, technical director and production manager professionally, put together the first Behind The Lens Kids' Film Festival in 2003.

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