The Partners’ Film Company director Mitch Gabourie is in development on feature film Komanchee Street with L.A.-based CineVisions/Seven Arts Pictures. The script was written by Gabourie during his film school days and will go before the cameras either this fall or next spring in Montreal.

His black-and-white short Angel Walk will unspool at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and, adding to his commercial credits, Gabourie will soon start rolling on a Molson-sponsored spot for the White Ribbon campaign through Grey Advertising, which will air during Molson Hockey Night in Canada on CBC.

What are your greatest assets as a director?

A profound sense of the absurd and the ability to laugh when life plays little tricks on you. Also, I love working with actors.

What one thing would you most like to shoot a commercial for but haven’t yet had the opportunity?

Amnesty International

What, in your opinion, is the most important factor to the success of any spot?

The ability of the director, agency and client to collectively trust a good idea.

How does your experience as a commercial director play into other directing gigs?

In honing one’s technical craftsmanship and the art of diplomacy.

Why did you want to be a director?

To live in a permanent state of denial and avoid the really really world.

Who and/or what influences your work?

The films of the seventies/fear.

What is your favorite spot of all time, shot by you or someone else?

Michael Hausman’s ‘Funeral’ for Levi’s.

Favorite TV jingle?

‘Can’t get enough of that Sugar Crisp… ‘

How do you prepare yourself for a shoot?

I’m a prep freak and I love to shoot, so just give me a river of caffeine.

If you had a theme song what would it be?

Robbie Robertson’s Broken Arrow.

If you knew when you started off in the business what you know now, what would you do different?

Always wear a cup! (I’ve had my heart broken more times than a hooker in a Burroughs’ novel.)