Xenophile Media http://www.xenophile.ca is a Toronto-based cross-platform production company founded in 2002 by Patrick Crowe and Thomas Wallner

Thomas Wallner

Thomas Selim Wallner is an award-winning German film-maker, working in Canada.Wallner was a co-founder of Xenophile Media in 2001.He has worked with Rhombus Media since 1995....

. They are best known for creating alternate reality game

Alternate reality game

An alternate reality game is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions....

s linked to television series such as the ReGenesis

ReGenesis

ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...

 Extended Reality game produced in association with Shaftesbury Films and the Fallen Alternate Reality Game produced for ABC Family

ABC Family

ABC Family, stylized as abc family, is an American television network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company...

 with Matt Wolf (Double Twenty Productions). Xenophile won an International Interactive Emmy for the second season of the ReGenesis game in April 2007 and an Emmy for the Fallen game in September 2007. Xenophile also produces documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

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