Damian Abraham, frontman of Canadian punk band F*cked Up, and International Digital Emmy-winning producer Zach Feldberg have partnered to launch Cut & Paste Pictures.
The Toronto-based production company is entering the market with a slate of projects in development, spanning scripted and unscripted formats, and a feature documentary currently in production.
“Focusing on bold, voice-driven projects rooted in music, counterculture, and outsider perspectives, Cut & Paste champions unconventional stories with wide audience appeal,” reads a Wednesday press release announcing the prodco’s launch.
The creative partnership between Abraham and Feldberg combines their backgrounds across music, media and television that inform Cut & Paste’s distinct point of view, the release says.
In addition to his music career, Abraham has hosted and produced television projects including Vice’s The Wrestlers and MuchMusic’s The Wedge. He also created the long-running interview podcast Turned Out a Punk, which features figures from across pop culture discussing their punk roots.
Feldberg previously served as director of current production (comedy) and head of scripted Gem originals at CBC, where he oversaw series including Sort Of (CBC/HBO Max), Son of a Critch (CBC/The CW), Fakes (CBC/Netflix) and For Heaven’s Sake (CBC/Paramount+). Prior to his time at CBC, Feldberg worked at Shaw Media as senior manager of original digital programming and shows, and also produced original digital content associated with Shaw Media linear series including Big Brother Canada, Vikings, Trailer Park Boys and Endgame.
“We called our company Cut & Paste because it reflects the culture and ethos that shaped us — making things from scratch, by hand, and seeking out voices that hadn’t yet broken through and were ahead of their time,” Feldberg said in the company’s press announcement. “Personally, it connects everything from releasing records and ʼzines as a teenager to working as a journalist, radio host, and later as an executive and producer in TV and film. Our aim now is to pair that creative drive with the infrastructure and partnerships needed to bring those stories to scale.”
“After two decades leading a band with a swear word for a name, and years spent working across podcasting and television chasing era-defining moments, I’ve learned that the culture you want to see in the world doesn’t just happen,” Abraham said. “Cut & Paste is an extension of that mindset — a home for stories that are raw, strange, and often overlooked, and that come from incredible people we’ve encountered who trust us with bringing their fascinating stories to the world.”
Cut & Paste has already released its first short documentary, SNFU: A Band from Edmonton, about Canadian punk legends SNFU, in partnership with Trust Records. The film premiered in December at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas.
Unscripted projects in development include factual series Exit Strategy, which explores life after prison with All Elite Wrestling professional wrestler and ex-convict Hassan “MVP” Assad. Cut & Paste is also in pre-production on a feature-length documentary chronicling the unlikely lifelong friendship between Rise Against guitarist Zach Blair and wrestling star MVP, from director Scott Barber (This is Gwar).
The unscripted development slate also includes a genre-bending factual/lifestyle series, Tim’s Place, with musician and producer Tim Hill of The Halluci Nation, and a feature documentary on the Southern Ontario suburban punk rock scene of the 1990s from director Caitlin Starowicz (She Walks with Apes, Rebellion).
On the scripted side, the company currently has in development the feature film I Just Want to Talk to You, written and directed by Kelly McCormack (A League of Their Own, Sugar Daddy) and co-written by Tess Degenstein (The Monkey). Based on uncovered 1970s recordings by Charles K. Brown — reissued in 2021 by The Numero Group — this film tells the story of teenage angst and unrequited gay love that ultimately broke up his band.
Also in development is the half-hour comedy series HOSER, co-created by Abraham and Ehren “Bear Witness” Thomas of The Halluci Nation, and co-written by Graeme Wilson (Freaks on Film), which follows a disgraced American podcaster who accidentally relocates to Canada.
In 2025, Cut & Paste Pictures was awarded development funding from the Bell Fund Slate Development Program, supporting the advancement of the company’s growing slate.
Photos of (l-r) Damian Abraham and Zach Feldberg courtesy of Cut & Paste Pictures
