Ilana C. Frank is a Canadian film and television producer and founder of ICF Films (formerly Thump Inc.), best known for producing the award-winning series The Eleventh Hour, Rookie Blue, and Saving Hope.
[1][2][3] The Eleventh Hour, which she executively produced and co-created, won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Dramatic Series in 2003 and 2005, and was nominated for over 30 Gemini Awards, winning in all major categories.
In the mid-1980s she joined Norstar Entertainment, a Toronto-based production and distribution company, as VP of Production, where she oversaw the work on over 20 feature films.
[5] She met her ex-husband, actor Maury Chaykin, in 1974 on the set of a play called Tony's Woman, though they divorced in 1993.
[6] She received an award from the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) in 2007 for mentoring Canadian talent.