Founded by Clara Altimas and Anna Hopkins, and Mark Waters serving as in-house producer, The Same Page is a film collective with a desire to write, laugh and create content it believes in.

Clara Altimas

Clara Altimas is a writer, director and actor originally from Montreal, now based in Toronto. Her short film JEREMY AND MARGOT MAKE A BABY, which she wrote, produced, and acted in premiered at the Austin Film Festival (October 2016) and was released online as part of the NSI’s film festival (November 2017). Clara is in development on two features and completed the Telefilm Canada Feature Comedy Exchange with her feature script SMALL POND GLORY this past spring (2018). Clara is currently shifting her abilities into the tv world, working in the writing room on half hour comedies CRAWFORD (CBC) and KIM'S CONVENIENCE (CBC) and directing the digital series OFF KILTER (CBC). Clara studied screenwriting with the UCLA Extension Program and completed a residency in the Writer’s Lab at the Canadian Film Centre. She attributes her love of story and character to her extensive training in acting; she studied Meisner technique with the late Jacqueline McClintock, scene study and script analysis with the renowned Larry Moss, and improvisation at Toronto’s Second City.

Anna Hopkins

Originally from Montreal, Anna Hopkins now splits her time between Los Angeles and Toronto. She has worked extensively in film and television, from starring alongside Paul Giamatti in critically acclaimed BARNEY'S VERSION to playing fan favourite series regulars and recurring characters on television shows such as SHADOWHUNTERS (a role that earned her a Teen Choice nomination for Choice TV VIllain), ARROW and THE EXPANSE. In conjunction with acting, she is busy developing original material. Her short film directorial debut, THE GIVE AND TAKE was a recipient of a bravoFACT! production grant, and had its US premiere at Hollyshort Film Festival (2018), and is continuing the festival circuit. Anna was shortlisted as one of ten artists within the US and UK by the prestigious KSF Foundation for their Artist Choice Award (2017) for her short screenplay which she is set to direct, MAMA OF DADA, a surrealist comedy about the modern art world. That screenplay also recently won top prize at the Nashville Film Festival (2018) for Best Comedy Short. Anna can next be seen going head to head opposite Kim Coates in the explosive new season of BAD BLOOD on City TV, and is currently filming TIN CAN, Seth A. Smith’s new bio-sci-fi film where she is playing the lead role.