[4][3] He later moved to San Francisco and got his first significant job as a production assistant on the 1999 film, Bicentennial Man.
[3] After working in film in San Francisco, Bannatyne co-formed a production company, Lucky Hat Entertainment, in 2007.
The first two, P-Star Rising and Entre Nos, premiered that year at the Tribeca Film Festival.
[7] Through Lucky Hat, Bannatyne produced the 2011 film, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front.
Bannatyne's grandfather was the captain of the SS Columbia, the ship that carried passengers to the island.