Irene Nelson is the President of Rampart Films, a Vancouver/Los Angeles based Production Company dedicated to creating commercially viable, thought provoking feature films and documentaries. She is also Vice President of Rampart Capital Corp, a company involved in raising funds for real estate and government projects for over 30 years, presently in the planning phase of Rampart’s Avenir, a 'green' live/work/play community that will be a world platform for the development and testing of alternative energy sources. This exciting project located near Edmonton, Alberta will be the focus of a feature documentary as it unfolds. Using film as a means to elicit discussion and bring issues to the forefront, Rampart Films and Rampart Capital Corp support Miles4Justice, an international initiative that employs competitive sailing events to raise funds for human rights. A film documenting this effort begins shooting in September. Other documentaries by Rampart include Dahramsala - Home in Exile, currently in post-production.
Previous films include Crossed and Part of the Game, which is currently in worldwide distribution. Rampart Films is in pre-production on nouveau western John’s Last Job, written and to be directed by Robert Culp, and also Repeaters, a supernatural thriller to be directed by Carl Bessai. Irene’s screenplay Puppet Show, a personal story adapted from the book by G.J. de Klerk is in development as is The Second Shot, a legal thriller by human rights lawyer Sir G.J. Alexander Knoops.