Imagine Create is an internationally acclaimed family entertainment company. We are creators and storytellers. Our purpose and passion is creating premium television, film, music, storybooks and digital content with heart.
Over the past 25 years our leadership team has become expert in creating, financing and producing family entertainment. Through strategic partnerships with broadcasters, financiers, distributors, licensors, brands and artists we’ve forged a reputation for delivering premium quality content that is entertaining, heart-centred, and loved by children, parents and grandparents.
Our work in digital and television has been recognized with the highest international honours for family content including being a Prix Jeunesse Award, a Banff Rockies Award nomination, a Kidscreen Award, multiple Parents Choice Awards and a nomination for the prestigious NHK Japan Prize.
Our hit television series, The Gumboot Kids, is seen in 180 countries. The Gumboot Kids brand includes two hit television series, a digital series, over 80 original songs on all major streaming platforms, storybooks, educational curriculum and a live concert experience.
Recent Accolades
Our work has received awards and honours for excellence in television, music and digital content. Here are some of our recent accolades.
We’ve created hundreds of hours of premium quality content. Get to know our team.
Eric Hogan
Partner/Creator/Producer
Eric is an acclaimed content creator known for his work on the television series Scout & The Gumboot Kids (CBC), Daisy & The Gumboot Kids (CBC), I Love (TVO), A Window Looking In (Knowledge) and Space Suite (Knowledge). He is the co-creator and showrunner of the internationally acclaimed children’s television series, The Gumboot Kids.
He is the recipient of Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 Under 40 Award and his work has been saluted by The David Suzuki Foundation and the UCLA Center for Social Impact.
With a broad background that includes advertising and journalism, Eric has developed a distinct and impactful visual and storytelling style that has earned him accolades including multiple Canadian Screen Award nominations, multiple Leo Awards, Golden Sheaf Awards, a Kidscreen Award nomination, and finalist for the prestigious NHK Japan Prize and Prix Jeunesse Prize.
With his wife, Tara Hungerford, they lead Imagine Create Media, directing the business affairs and content creation on a slate of award winning content that includes television series, digital video and apps, storybooks, music and live shows.
Tara Hungerford
Partner/Creator/Producer
Tara Hungerford is known for her internationally reknowned work on the television series Scout & The Gumboot Kids (CBC), Daisy & The Gumboot Kids (CBC), I Love (TVO), A Window Looking In (Knowledge) and Space Suite (Knowledge). She has created over 150 episodes of scripted and unscripted award-winning content. She’s also directed episodes of the award winning unscripted series The Shopping Bags (W Network), Making It Big (Slice) and The Week the Women Went Seasons 1 & 2 (CBC).
She is a sought after Producer and Director known for her creative leadership in aesthetics and storytelling. Over the past 18 years, Tara has built a portfolio with over 250 credits in documentary, television series, music videos, short films and music videos. Her work has earned six Leo Awards (directing, writing, program, production design), two Golden Sheaf Awards (best program) the Kodak Spotlight Directing Award (female director) and multiple Canadian Screen Award Nominations (best program, best production design). Recently Scout & The Gumboot Kids projects were Finalist for the prestigious international Prix Jeunesse Award and the NHK Japan Prize.
Tracey Mack
Producer/Director of Business Affairs
Tracey is an award-winning producer with twenty years of experience, producing over 120 hours of television, in both live action and animated film, television and digital media, with a focus on programming for children and families.
With Imagine Create, Tracey supervises all production and business affairs activities at the studio. Tracey was formerly the Director of Development, Business Affairs and Marketing for Bardel Entertainment, and also served as their Associate Vice-President of Production, where she supervised productions for YTV, Teletoon, Radio-Canada, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. She has an MBA in Arts & Media Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University, a BAA in Radio & Television Arts from Ryerson University, and has served on the boards of Women In Film & Television Vancouver, Spark Animation, and Drawn Together Vancouver (now Women In Animation Vancouver).
Awards include: Prix Jeunesse and NHK Prize Finalist nomination for Scout & The Gumboot Kids, Merging Media Award 2013 for her trans-media property – Kids’ Cookhouse, Bell Media Producer’s Accelerator Lab, the Sharon Gibbon Lifetime Member Award from Women In Film & Television Vancouver.
