 In 2005, Mitrani established his own production company, StanKaz Films, and produced his first feature-length film "On the Trail of Igor Rizzi (Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi)", a black comedy starring Laurent Lucas and Isabelle Blais.The film won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.His second picture "The Kate Logan Affair" is a dark and mysterious thriller starring Alexis Bledel playing a psychologically unstable police woman.