Vancouver: Two Vancouver producers have launched a Los Angeles-based entertainment company, while maintaining a satellite office in their home town. Voyager International Entertainment was unveiled May 19 as a company that will provide independent producers a ‘direct pipeline’ for their product to the international marketplace. Voyageur – run by president Warren Wayne and ceo Nick Meredith – also promises to provide independent producers access to a $500,000 development fund.

The initial piece of business, through which Voyageur hopes to go public by August, is a coventure with l.a.-based Aurora Productions to do an international film sales company called Voyageur Film Sales, which expects to handle up to four films this year.

For Voyageur Film Sales, Aurora and Vancouver-based Blackcomb Productions will collaborate on an mow called Sun Peaks, to be filmed in December, and a feature called The 9 Circles, which is being developed for a spring ’99 shoot in Egypt.

Interim president of Voyageur Film Sales, Aurora president William Stuart, was a producer of The Rock, among other features.

Wayne’s production credits, meanwhile, include nine features and 200 episodes of television, while Meredith comes from a finance background and recently executive produced the now-defunct entertainment news magazine Metro Cafe.