Producers
Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev founded Nomadic Pictures in 1995. As Co-Chairmen of Nomadic, they have produced, financed, and/or co-financed over Ninety-Three (93) film and television projects. Their feature film debut, “Hugo Pool” (Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr.), was the audience’s favourites at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, Nomadic has produced over $1.1 billion in movies-of-the-week, miniseries, TV series, and feature film projects in Canada, U.S., and Europe.
In addition to their Seventy-One (71) Emmy nominations and countless awards, Oakes and Frislev won Three Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Children’s/Youth/Family Special for “The Incredible Mrs. Ritche” (Gena Rowlands, James Caan, Kevin Zegers) (Showtime 2004). In 2005 Nomadic Co-Produced AMC’s first Scripted Original mini-series, “Broken Trail” (Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church), which went on to win four Primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Mini-Series for Nomadic. In 2014 & 2015, Nomadic took home an Emmy®, a Golden Globe®, a Television Critic’s Award, and a Producers Guild Award for Best Mini-series for FARGO (Billy Bob Thorton, Martin Freeman, Colin Hanks, Alison Tolman) (FX/MGM)
Chad Oakes
Mike Frislev
Team
About Nomadic Pictures
Nomadic Pictures is a Canadian based production company, developing, financing and producing features, MOW’s, Mini-Series and TV series. In 26 years, Nomadic has produced over Ninety-Three (93) television & film projects worth a combined $1.1 billion in production and remains one of the most active production companies in North America.
In addition to their Seventy-One (71) Emmy Nominations and countless awards, Oakes and Frislev won Three Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Childern’s/Youth/Family Special for “The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie” (Gena Rowlands, James Caan, Kevin Zegers) (Showtime). In 2005, Nomadic Produced AMC’s first scripted Original mini-series, “Broken Trail” (Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church), which in 2007, went on to be nominated for 16 Primetime Emmys®, winning four awards including Best Mini-Series. In 2014 & 2015, Nomadic’s Chad Oakes & Mike Frislev took home an Emmy®, a Golden Globe®, a Television Critic’s Award and a Producers Guild Award for Best Mini-series with “Fargo” (Billy Bob Thorton, Martin Freeman, Colin Hanks, Alison Tolman) (FX/MGM). In 2016 & 2017, “Fargo” Season 2 and 3 received a combined Thirty-Four Emmy nominations, including Emmy’s noms for Best Mini-series.
In 2019, Nomadic produced Season 4 of “Van Helsing” (SYFY/Netflix/SuperEcran), Season 2 of “The Order” (Netflix), two pilots “Chad” (TBS/Turner) & “Ride or Die” (PopTV) and the Feature “LAND” (Focus Features/Big Beach), which Premiered February 12th, 2021. In 2020, Nomadic produced the fifth and final season of “Van Helsing” (SYFY/Netflix/SuperEcran). Nomadic started 2021 with the production of its new series “The Imperfects” (Netflix).
In 2022, Nomadic started the year off with the TV Series “My Life with the Walter Boys” (Sony/Netflix), and the mini-series “Wilderness” (Amazon).