was first registered in 1983, as a production and distribution company for Lulu Keating’s films.  In 1985 it was incorporated as Red Snapper Films Limited, as a company for the production of higher budget films and television documentaries. 

The first production undertaken was Rita MacNeil in Japan, with financing from Telefilm Canada, the province of Nova Scotia, and private investors.  CBC Television entered into a broadcast commitment prior to the commencement of shooting.  The documentary was extremely popular, profiling the up-and-coming Maritime singer, Rita MacNeil, on her first ever international tour. 

Red Snapper Films worked for several years with producer Chris Zimmer.  Two short dramas were produced, Starting Right Now in 1986 and In Service in 1990.  The company developed the feature fiction The Midday Sun through Red Snapper.  When financing was secured for this $2.3 million production, a new company, Missing Piece Productions, was formed co-owned by producer Chris Zimmer and writer/director Lulu Keating.  Similarly, Red Snapper developed the animated documentary The Moody Brood, and production was completed through a new company formed by Keating and Executive Producer Joanne Eliot, Chicks in Flicks Productions Incorporated.

Red Snapper Films is now registered in both Halifax Nova Scotia and Dawson City, Yukon Territory.  Keating has produced three shorts in the Yukon: Tit for Tat, All Things Nice (co-directed with Elisabeth Belliveau) and Scrabble Scramble.  She is in post-production on a documentary about a colourful resident of Dawson City, Caveman Bill.  Keating is developing a screenplay, Klondike Kalahari, which is set primarily in the north. The Harold Greenberg Fund and the Yukon Film and Sound Commission have invested in development, with Amnon Buckbinder as the Story Editor.