About

Storiel Entertainment is an independent production company based in Vancouver, BC. It was founded in 2022 by American-Canadian filmmaker Ariel Bond and produces original narrative content across film and television.

Ariel Bond (she/her) is a writer, producer and director. As an impact filmmaker, Ariel's focus is adapting true stories that expose uncomfortable truths and act as a catalyst for change. In her directorial debut short film RUPTURE, Ariel transformed her traumatic experience with an ovarian cyst rupture into a cautionary tale about medical gaslighting, calling attention to the issue of the Gender Pain Gap or the gap in how men and women’s pain are diagnosed and treated differently. 

For her psychological thriller feature DEEPFAKE, a true story tackling non-consensual deepfake pornography, Ariel received the Equity and Emerging Development Grant from Creative BC,  participated in the Gender Equity in Media Society's Genre Film Lab, pitched at the Frontières International Co-Production Market in Montreal, and received the inaugural Filmable x The Collective Bunch Feature Film fellowship. DEEPFAKE scored an 8 on The Black List, putting it in the top 3% of all scripts hosted on the site, leading it to be featured as a 'Must Read Script' in November 2025, placing on the shortlist for the prestigious Cassian Elwes Sundance fellowship and the longlist for the Black List Writers Lab. It also advanced to the second round of consideration for the Sundance Development Labs, was a Second Rounder with the Austin Film Festival, was named a semi-finalist for the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab, and a finalist for Film Independent Fast Track. Most recently, Deepfake was awarded Best Feature Screenplay in the GEMFest International Screenplay Competition and it received the Stowe Story Labs Genre Feature Film Launch Fellowship. 

Her latest feature, THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL US, a character-driven drama inspired by her experience becoming a mother, was her third screenplay to receive an 8 on The Black List. 

As a producer, Ariel's most recent credits include the narrative-experimental short film inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Connie Converse, HOW BRIEF, directed by Kelly McCormack and starring Tess Degenstein and Emmy-winner Tatiana Maslany, which had its World Premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, the final iteration in Park City, Utah. It has also played at seven Academy-Award qualifying film festivals including Raindance, Manchester, Regard, Atlanta, IndyShorts and HollyShorts, where it was nominated for Best Editing. It also won the award for Best Experimental Film at the Bucharest Short Film Festival. 

Ariel also produced the ensemble comedy short film about body positivity, BARE, which was selected for Telefilm's Not Short on Talent showcase at Cannes. It was also featured in a special program at the Marché du Film called "Would You Buy This?"

Ariel is currently participating in the VIFF Creative Business Cohort with DEEPFAKE, and recently completed the TIFF Series Creators Lab as a producer with ELIAS, a half-hour crime comedy series set in the world of the international wildlife trade from writer/director Emily O'Quinn Code.

Ariel has worked for many years as a production supervisor and producer’s assistant on studio projects such as Disney's PETER PAN & WENDY and Marvel/Sony's SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME. She is an Academy Nicholl fellowship quarterfinalist and recipient of the Leonard and Eileen Newman Prize for a Promising New Writer. Ariel has a B.A. in Screen Arts & Cultures from the University of Michigan, and she holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada. In her spare time, she enjoys mentoring aspiring filmmakers from her home state of Michigan and practicing her (mostly terrible) French.