We partner exclusively with conservation nonprofits, environmental organizations, researchers,
Indigenous-led initiatives, and mission-driven teams across Canada
who need powerful film storytelling to support conservation, education, and advocacy.
Conservation isn’t just a niche for us. It’s who we are.
Our True Story
We're deeply connected to what we do because it's not just work — it’s a story we live every day, shaped by real experiences, purpose, and a commitment that runs deeper than the lens can capture.
In 2010, WorkCabin Films was born in a home studio
in a 30-acre private nature reserve
among towering pines in southern Ontario, Canada.
Founded by award-winning journalist Gregg McLachlan, WorkCabin Films grew out of a lifelong pull toward nature and conservation. After leaving a media career, Gregg returned to the path he first imagined in his twenties, when his goal was to become a wildlife technician. It was a full-circle moment, only this time, his role was to tell the stories of wild spaces and the people connected to them.
WorkCabin Films is based in the Carolinian forests of southern Ontario, in the heart of the Long Point Biosphere Region, an internationally recognized landscape of remarkable biodiversity. Surrounded by wetlands, forests, and the Big Creek National Wildlife Area, we live and work where conservation is part of daily life. Our proximity to these landscapes keeps us connected to the field — literally — and it shapes how we see, listen, and tell stories that reflect the pulse of the natural world.
We’re Not Just Filmmakers.
We’re Field Storytellers.
Our work isn’t about production checklists. It’s about standing knee-deep in wetlands, hiking shoulder to shoulder with researchers in the field, and listening to the heartbeat of a landscape that’s fighting to endure.
We bring cameras, yes, but more importantly, we bring care.
Every documentary, every field film, every story we craft is a step toward helping people see what’s worth protecting.
Born from quiet places
What began as one filmmaker and a camera in the woods became a way of listening. It embodies our entire team.
Listening to the land.
Listening to the people who protect it.
Listening to what can’t always be seen, but deserves to be felt.
In-house from field to
final cut. Collaborative by design.
WorkCabin Films manages production and post-production in-house to protect the integrity of each story, while working in close collaboration with researchers, conservationists, and communities.
WorkCabin Films is based on the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation,
and with gratitude to the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples.