Cole Shane Rutman is a Canadian filmmaker and producer born in Toronto, Canada. Recognized as one of North America's "young filmmakers to watch", he was a semi-finalist at the OSCAR qualifying Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival, a Gold Key recipient in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and has been nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards. Rutman is a 2-time finalist at the LA Student Film Festival and a student at Ivey Business School at Western University.