24 heures pour l'histoire III

This documentary series recalls three days that marked Quebec’s modern history: the election of the Parti Québécois in 1976, the first Canadian heart transplant, and the death of Cabinet minister Pierre Laporte. Drawing on the testimonies of men and women who lived at the centre of these events, this series infuses history with real life and true emotion.

Betacam SP

3 x 53 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers and Directors

Luc Cyr

Carl Leblanc

Scriptwriters

Luc Cyr

Alain Charbonneau

Carl Leblanc

Narrator

Gilbert Sicotte

Production/Distribution

Ad Hoc Films inc.
24, av. du Mont-Royal Ouest
Bureau 905
Montreal Quebec
H2T 2S2
Canada
(514) 529-2198
(514) 529-8884
ad.hoc.f@sympatico.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

30 journées qui ont fait le Québec (Les)

Which 30 historical events had the greatest impact on 20th-century Quebec? This documentary series aims to answer this question, with each program focusing on a specific event. Drawing on archival material and testimonials, the series reconstructs the events, highlighting their turning points and placing them in their proper economic, ideological and social contexts.

Betacam SP

30 x 47 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

France Choquette

Daniel Proulx

Alain Rondeau

Jean Roy

Director

Jean Roy

Scriptwriter

Daniel Proulx

Narrator

Michel Laperrière

Production

Eurêka! Productions
225, rue Roy
Bureau 208
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1M5
Canada
(514) 272-3500
(514) 272-9452
ktv@cam.org

Distribution – Canada

CinéFête
1586, rue Fleury Est
Bureau 210
Montreal Quebec
H2C 1S6
Canada
(514) 858-0300
(514) 858-0442
info@cinefete.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Aftermath: The Remnants of War

Aftermath: The Remnants of War reveals war’s dirty little secret: war is not really over simply because the fighting has stopped and all the troops have gone home. Covering 20th-century wars and travelling through Bosnia, France, Russia and Vietnam, this documentary looks at individuals and organizations that clean up after war.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Ed Barreveld

Michael Kot

Peter Starr

Executive Producers

Andre Bennett

Don Haig

Director

Daniel Sekulich

Scriptwriters

Allen Abel

Dan Sekulich

Production

Storyline Entertainment Inc.
115 Palmerston Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M6J 2J2
Canada
(416) 603-8333
(416) 603-6318
ed@storylineentertainment.ca
www.storylineentertainment.ca

Distribution – Canada, United States and Central America

National Film Board of Canada
3155, ch. de la Côte-de-Liesse
Saint-Laurent Quebec
H4N 2N4
Canada
(514) 283-9000
(514) 283-5487

www.nfb.ca

International distribution

Cinema Esperanca
36 Charlotte St. Suite 1106
Toronto Ontario
M5V 3P7
Canada
(416) 977-0123
(416) 977-7890
andre.m.mbennett@sympatico.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

IL NE LEUR MANQUE QUE LA PAROLE

This documentary explores the way certain remarkable people, including the great Jane Goodall, interact with animals. Combining intuition and original experiments, these individuals shed new and fascinating light on the animals we thought we knew so well. Their new approach to animal communication raises important questions about our origins, how we relate to the animal world and what it is that makes us human.

Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour

Producers

Nathalie Barton

Arnaud Hantute

Director and Scriptwriter

Alain d'Aix

Production

InformAction Films inc.
460, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Bureau 927
Montreal Quebec
H3B 1A7
Canada
(514) 284-0441
(514) 284-0772
info@informactionfilms.com
www.informactionfilms.com

Distribution

Delphis Films
5455, av. de Gaspé
Bureau 803
Montreal Quebec
H2T 3B3
Canada
(514) 843-3355
(514) 843-9574
distribution@delphisfilms.com
www.delphisfilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Alpha Yaya Diallo (Best of Both World / Le Meilleur des deux mondes)

Canadian Afro-pop musician and Juno-award-winner Alpha Yaya Diallo returns to his home in Guinea, West Africa, to record a song for his next CD release. After years of absence, he brings back his inspirations and the soul of African music as well as a unique perspective from two undeniably different cultures: Canada and West Africa.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

50 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Koa Padolsky

Narrator

Alpha Yaya Diallo

Cast

Alpha Yaya Diallo

Ian Menzies

Doura Barry

Production

Soul Pictures
214-1477 Fountain Way
Vancouver British Columbia

Canada
(604) 738-4149
koa_padolsky@telus.net

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Soul Expressions

Inspiration and creation are explored in this two-part documentary where artists from different media and cultural backgrounds exchange and then re-interpret each other’s works.

Betacam SP

2 x 23 minutes

Colour

Producers

Monique Leblanc

Michael R. Leblanc

Bill Kendrick

Director and Scriptwriter

Monique Leblanc

Production

CinImage Films
8 Belleview Ave.
Moncton New Brunswick
E1C 4S8
Canada
(506) 386-1616
(506) 855-7025
cinimage@nb.sympatico.ca

Island Images
68 Milton Ave.
Summerside Prince Edward Island
C1N 1T9
Canada
(902) 888-3620
(902) 888-3102
islandimages@islandtelecom.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Anna Malenfant d'Acadie

Born in Moncton, New Brunswick in 1902, Anna Malenfant was one of French Canada’s greatest contraltos. She also earned renown as a songwriter who penned some of Quebec’s most popular songs. Her exceptional life was marked by an abiding attachment to her native Acadia. Drawing on a rich trove of Anna Malenfant’s archival material, and featuring selections from her letters and personal notebooks, this docudrama offers a compelling look at a fascinating woman.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour

Producer

Cécile Chevrier

Director and Scriptwriter

Ginette Pellerin

Narrator

Aurélia Gaudet

Cast

Aurélie Cormier

Aurélia Gaudet

Rita-Anne Malenfant

Production/Distribution

Productions Phare-Est inc.
140, rue Botsford
Bureau 20
Moncton New Brunswick
E1C 4X5
Canada
(506) 857-9941
(506) 857-1806
phareest@nbnet.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

MARIE, MÈRE DES APPARITIONS

In recent years, the Virgin Mary has reportedly appeared to a group of people in Bosnia as well as to a woman in Venezuela. These sightings have prompted thousands of pilgrims from around the world to converge on the two sites. Drawing on the opinions of experts in the field, the testimonies of pilgrims, and those who claim to have seen the Virgin, this documen-tary attempts to explain the phenomenon.

Betacam SP

minutes

Colour

Executive Producers

André Barro

Jaquelin Bouchard

Bernard Vaillot

Producers

Nicole Faucher

Mary Armstrong

Director

Jean-Philippe Duval

Scriptwriter

Xavier Deleu

Narrators

Joane Prince

Kim Handysides

Bernard Vaillot

Production

Productions Pixcom inc.
1720, rue du Canal
Montreal Quebec
H3K 3E6
Canada
(514) 931-1188
(514) 931-2126
info@pixcom.com
www.pixcom.com

Distribution – Canada

Pixcom International inc.
1720, rue du Canal
Montreal Quebec
H3K 3E6
Canada
(514) 931-1188
(514) 931-2126
info@pixcom.com
www.pixcom.com

International distribution

Europe Images International
1 Rond-Point Victor Hugo
Issy-les-Moulineaux
92130
France
33 1 55 95 58 00 or 55 95
33 1 55 95 58 10
t.mino@m5audiovisuel.com
www.europeimages.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Bad Girl

In New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Montréal, women are claiming the right to hard-core pornography, made by women for women. They are rejecting the censorship called for by feminists in the 1970s. Who are these women? Are they business-people who simply want a share of a very lucrative market? Avant-garde feminists? Advocates of a new approach to sexuality? Whatever the case may be, these women are revolutionizing a business which up to now has been controlled by men.

Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Nathalie Barton

Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol

Arnaud Hantute

Director

Marielle Nitoslawska

Scriptwriters

Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol

Nathalie Collard

Pascale Navarro

Marielle Nitoslawska

Production

InformAction Films inc.
460, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Bureau 927
Montreal Quebec
H3B 1A7
Canada
(514) 284-0441
(514) 284-0772
info@informactionfilms.com
www.informactionfilms.com

Distribution

Delphis Films
5455, av. de Gaspé
Bureau 803
Montreal Quebec
H2T 3B3
Canada
(514) 843-3355
(514) 843-9574
distribution@delphisfilms.com
www.delphisfilms.com

Distribution – Europe

TéléImages International
64, rue Pierre-Charron
Paris
75008
France
1.44.35.17.41 / 38
1.44.35.17.62
sales@teleimages.com
www.teleimages.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

BELUGA SPEAKING ACROSS TIME

The elusive underwater world of the white beluga whale, current research on their enigmatic behaviours and their unique relationship to Arctic people, past, present and future is revealed in a journey through the remote, spectacular regions of the Eastern Canadian Arctic and the White Sea, Northwest Russia.

Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour

Producers

Patricia Sims

Michael Clark

Mark Wright

Executive Coroducer

Paul Cadieux

Director and Scriptwriter

Patricia Sims

Production

Canaz Corporation (The)
80 Beverley Street
Toronto Ontario
M5T 1Y1
Canada
(416) 465-9938
(416) 465-4824
canaz@sympatico.ca
www.canaz.com

Prisma Light Ltd.
762 Queen St. W.
Toronto Ontario
M6J 1E9
Canada
(416) 504-4321
(416) 504-7325
info@prismalight.com
www.prismalight.com

Les Productions en commun
3401 St-Antoine St. W.
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6190
(514) 939-2034
cadieux@megafun.ca

Coproduction - Finland

Matila & Rohr Productions Oy Tallberginkatu
1A/14100180
Helsinki

Finland
358-9-685-2227
358-9-685-2229
mrp@surfnet.fi

Distribution

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Big Show (The)

The Big Show is an exciting, behind-the-scenes look at the glamorous workings of a major international film festival. Shot at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film gives audiences a backstage pass to the dramas, emotions, ambitions and victories that participants experience. Featured celebrities include Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Sarah Jessica Parker, Atom Egoyan, Alec Baldwin and Sally Field, among others.

Digital Betacam

minutes

Colour

Producer

Shari Cohen

Directors and Scriptwriters

Robin Neinstein

Robert Cohen

Cast

Joel Schumacher

Alison Thompson

Piers Handling

Blaine Thurier

Production/Distribution – Canada

Cohen Siblings
760 Bathurst St., Studio 2
Toronto Ontario
M5S 2R6
Canada
(416) 537-8384
(416) 537-8602
shari@on.aibn.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Biographie : Jean-Claude Labrecque

This documentary looks at the personal and professional life of filmmaker Jean-Claude Labrecque. The program traces the filmmaker’s development as a proponent of cinéma d’auteur, a genre which held special meaning for him. This film begins, in 1944, within the fortified walls of Québec City, and ends at the same place, taking viewers through a life filled with events and wonderful stories – a journey which took the filmmaker to the four corners of the Earth.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Sylvie Roy

Micheline Loiselle

Executive Producers

Jacques Bonin

Claude Veillet

Director and Scriptwriter

Jérome Labrecque

Production

Téléfiction Productions inc.
4446, boul. Saint-Laurent
7^e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
information@telefiction.com
www.telefiction.com

Distribution – Canada

Téléfiction Distribution et Marketing
4446, boul. St-Laurent 7e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
info@telefiction.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Biographie : Jean-Paul Nolet

“We, the Abenaki people, speak little. This is perhaps due to the fact that, for centuries, we were silenced. Or perhaps because we prefer to think rather than speak. I don’t know.” This quotation by Jean-Paul Nolet, a well-known radio and television host in Quebec, is an eloquent example of the man’s depth. Yet the quotation reveals a paradox: this proud Quebec Native, known for his warm smile, spent many years on television, informing us of the latest events around the world….

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Lucie Poulin

Pierre Nadeau

Marc St-Onge

Executive Producer

Lucie Poulin

Director

Kristina von Hlatky

Scriptwriter

Pierre Nadeau

Narrator

Marina Orsini

Production

Le Groupe Sagittaire
655, rue Parthenais
Montreal Quebec
H2K 3R7
Canada
(514) 529-2800
(514) 873-8151
sagittaire@sympatico.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Biographie : Raymond Charette

In the late 1950s, a Quebec radio announcer began to make a name for himself, quickly becoming a model for his younger colleagues. His name was Raymond Charette. Determined and hardworking, Charette was a gifted reader – as was expected of all announcers at the time. However, Charette – along with Wilfrid Lemoine – was the first announcer in Quebec to broaden his skills and become a broadcast journalist, working in both radio and television. As this biography shows, Raymond Charette was a true pioneer in his field.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Lucie Poulin

Pierre Nadeau

Marc St-Onge

Executive Producer

Lucie Poulin

Director

Kristina von Hlatky

Scriptwriter

Pierre Nadeau

Narrator

Marina Orsini

Production

Le Groupe Sagittaire
655, rue Parthenais
Montreal Quebec
H2K 3R7
Canada
(514) 529-2800
(514) 873-8151
sagittaire@sympatico.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Birth Stories

Birth Stories is an ongoing television documentary series about one of the most challenging and life-changing events of our lives – having a baby. This gripping narrative follows women at different stages of pregnancy, along with their husbands, partners, families and friends who share their everyday lives with us. By interweaving the stories of these different characters, the series presents a dramatic and moving portrait of pregnancy, birth and the early weeks of child rearing.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

12 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Leslie Fruman

Nick Hector

Executive Producers

Glen Salzman

Andrea Nemtin

David York

Directors

Leslie Fruman

Maureen Judge

Robert McNamara

Nadine Pequeneza

Roxana Spicer

Scriptwriters

Francine Pelletier

Katherine Buck

Narrator

Nicki Guadagni

Production

Cineflix Productions Inc.
5505, boul. Saint-Laurent
Bureau 3008
Montreal Quebec
H2T 1S6
Canada
(514) 278-3140
(514) 270-3165
info@cineflix.com
www.cineflix.com

PTV Productions Inc.
67 Portland St
Toronto Ontario
M5V 2M9
Canada
(416) 531-0100
(416) 537-2145
info@ptvproductions.ca
www.ptvproductions.ca

Distribution

Forum 5 inc.
5505 boulevard St-Laurent
Montreal Quebec
H2T 1S6
Canada
(514) 278-3140
(514)270-3165

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Bog in My Back Yard (A)

This environmental documentary for materialists with a conscience looks at the battle between conservationists and developers over Burns Bog, a section of muddy land in the middle of Vancouver’s Lower Mainland. It tells the story of an urban “Everywoman” – first-time filmmaker Mary Bissell – who investigates both sides of the “bog war.” Mary takes viewers on a botanical mystery tour to a land of carnivorous plants, mysterious creatures and quirky characters who feel passionately about the future of Burns Bog.

Betacam SP

45 minutes

Colour

Producers

Christian Bruyère

Mary Bissel

Director, Scriptwriter, Narrator and Host

Mary Bissel

Host

Mary Bissel

Narrator

Mary Bissel

Production

Briar Patch Productions Ltd.
4411 Stone Crescent
West Vancouver British Columbia
V7W 1B8
Canada
(604) 669-9103
(604) 669-9073
champion@omnifilm.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

C'est mathématique! II

This series casts an insightful and searching eye on seemingly trivial aspects of everyday life and explores how they are influenced – often in surprising ways – by mathematics. The program explains how the things around us work by revealing the fundamental importance of mathematics to all facets of life and by describing how the specific applications of mathematical principles have an impact on people’s lives.

Betacam SP

13 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Micheline Loiselle

Jacques Bonin

Claude Veillet

Directors

Ginette Jalbert

Raymonde Crête

Host

Jean-Marie De Koninck

Production

Téléfiction Productions inc.
4446, boul. Saint-Laurent
7^e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
information@telefiction.com
www.telefiction.com

Distribution – Canada

Téléfiction Distribution et Marketing
4446, boul. St-Laurent 7e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
info@telefiction.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Appelez-moi Mary

Mary May Simon was born in 1948 in the tiny northern Quebec village of Nunavik, the child of an Inuit mother and an English-Canadian father. Call Me Mary explores the life of this remarkable person – the only Canadian woman to hold two diplomatic positions simultaneously: as Canadian ambassador to Denmark and Canadian ambassador to the Circumpolar Conference. Mary May Simon is a woman of courage and determination who deserves to be better known.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer

Patricia Nestruck

Director

Bob May Jr.

Scriptwriters

Bernard Beaupré

Bob May Jr.

Host

Evie Tullauga Mark

Cast

Mary May Simon

Production

Taqramiut Productions
1395, rue Notre-Dame
Lachine Quebec
H8S 2C9
Canada
(514) 637-8284
(514) 637-0477

Distribution

Avecom Distribution inc.
1973, rue Falardeau
Montreal Quebec
H2K 2L9
Canada
(514) 526-5252
(514) 527-9623
avecom@sympatico.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Canadian Geographic Presents III

This series explores in rich, intimate detail the incredible diversity of Canada’s flora and fauna. As with nature itself, each program is unique; collectively, however, the series offers a new perspective on the vast geographical, ecological and biological tapestry that is Canada. Like the land, the people and the exotic wildlife that it explores, Canadian Geographic Presents is boundless and bountiful.

Betacam SP

3 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

John LaRose

Executive Producers

Bill Johnston

Ron Little

Narrator

Colm Feore

Production

Summerhill Entertainment Inc.
56 Shaftesbury Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M4T 1A3
Canada
(416) 967-6503
(416) 967-1292
ablock@summerhill.tv
www.summerhill.tv

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Canadian Women of Courage

Canadian Women of Courage looks at women who served overseas during World War Two. The four episodes tell the stories of: the Canadian Nursing Sisters; Gladys Arnold, the only member of the Canadian press to witness the fall of France; the girls who served in the Canadian Army Show; and Joan Bamford Fletcher, who commanded 80 Japanese soldiers to free a Dutch internment camp in Sumatra.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

4 x 47 minutes

Colour

Producers, Directors and Scriptwriters

Lori Kuffner

Barbara Campbell

Production

Cooper Rock Pictures Inc.
70 Charles Cres.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4T 5X4
Canada
(306) 790-5690
(306) 790-5699
lkfuffner@cooperrock.com
www.cooperrock.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Canadians (The): Biographies of a Nation IV

The 14 subjects of The Canadians, season four, bring Canadian history to life. They include Nova Scotia mariner Joshua Slocum, a New World Columbus; gifted musician Ruth Lowe, who penned I’ll Never Smile Again; Sir Arthur Currie, a revered soldier of World War One; pioneering journalist Kit Coleman, a founding member of the Canadian Women’s Press Club; and the horse Northern Dancer, the first non-human to enter the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.

Betacam SP

14 x 47 minutes

Colour

Producers

Patricia Phillips

Carrie Madu

Executive Producers

Patricia Phillips

Sydney Suissa

Directors

Various / Divers

Scriptwriters

Various / Divers

Host

Patrick Watson

Production

Great North Productions Inc.
3720 - 76th Ave.
Edmonton Alberta
T6B 2N9
Canada
(780) 440-2022
(780) 440-3400

www.greatnorth.ab.ca

Distribution

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.,
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Captured Rain

As water becomes more valuable than oil, “captured rain” will generate wealth or lead to war. Population growth has overtapped rivers and lakes; aquifers are being drained faster than nature can refill them. The climate is getting warmer. Now add the complication of Free Trade – water as a “commercial good.” This two-part documentary sheds new light on the most vital environmental, economic and social issue of the new century.

Digital Betacam

minutes

Colour

Producers

Bette Thompson

Terence McKeown

Director and Scriptwriter

Jerry Thompson

Narrator

Jerry Thompson

Production

Raincost Storylines Ltd.
RR#1 Frances, Box 6
Halfmoon Bay British Columbia
V0N 1Y0
Canada
(604) 885-9813
(604) 885-9872
Rainstory@dccnet.com

Distribution

Mundovision World Network
300, rue Léo-Pariseau
Bureau 1820
Montreal Quebec
H2W 2P4
Canada
(514) 985-2004
(514) 985-2005
mundo@Interlog.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Caught in the Speed Trap

A self-employed mother gets advice from a time-management consultant on how to find more time for her children. A businessman is admitted to a psychiatric centre after working too many 100-hour weeks. In Japan, a 23-year-old girl dies of karoshi — death from overwork! This is humanity on a treadmill, people running to catch up with everyday demands, then slowing down just long enough to ask themselves, “What am I doing and why am I doing it?” This documentary looks at our priorities: how we make them, how we live with them. And how we don’t.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour

Producer

Gordon S. Henderson

Executive Producer

Gordon S. Henderson

Director

Kathryn Oughtred

Production/Distribution – Canada

90th Parallel Film & Television Productions Ltd.
203 Gerrard St. E.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 2E7
Canada
(416) 364-9090
(416) 364-0580
info@90thparallel.ca
www.90thparallel.ca

International distribution

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Cecil's Journey

This documentary tells the story of Cecil Fernando, a 26-year-old second-generationTamil-Canadian painter who travels back to Sri Lanka for the first time since the civil war had forced his family to flee 21 years earlier. It is also the personal story of a son trying to speak to his father and confront the demons of the past and present. Finally, it is a story about the eternal search for love in all its various incarnations: love for one’s country, for one’s family, for one’s self, as well as romantic love.

Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Peter d'Entremont

Kent Martin

Director, Scriptwriter and Narrator

Rohan Fernando

Cast

Rohan Fernando

Mohan Fernando

Rani Pusani

Joe Carvalho

Production

Triad Film Productions Ltd.
1657 Barrington St. Suite 433
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2A1
Canada
(902) 422-7174
(902) 422-8945
triadfilms@sprint.ca
www.triadfilms.ns.ca

National Film Board of Canada
3155, ch. de la Côte-de-Liesse
Saint-Laurent Quebec
H4N 2N4
Canada
(514) 283-9000
(514) 283-5487

www.nfb.ca

Distribution – Canada

National Film Board of Canada
3155, ch. de la Côte-de-Liesse
Saint-Laurent Quebec
H4N 2N4
Canada
(514) 283-9000
(514) 283-5487

www.nfb.ca

International distribution

Triad Film Productions Ltd.
1657 Barrington St. Suite 433
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2A1
Canada
(902) 422-7174
(902) 422-8945
triadfilms@sprint.ca
www.triadfilms.ns.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Champions of the Wild V

Champions of the Wild is a series of exciting treks into the fascinating and adventurous world of the wild. Each episode takes the audience to a different part of the world to witness a unique and special bond between a dedicated wildlife conservationist and the animal he or she is championing.

Digital Betacam

13 x 25 minutes

Colour

Producer

Christian Bruyère

Executive Producer

Michael Chechik

Directors

Christian Bruyère

Chris Aikenhead

Anthony Perzel

Peter Von Puttkamer

Gary Marcuse

Denise Withers

Scriptwriters

Christian Bruyère

Chris Aikenhead

Anthony Perzel

Peter Von Puttkamer

Gary Marcuse

Andrew Gardner

Denise Withers

Narrator

Andrew Gardner

Production

Omni Film Productions Limited
111 Water St.
Suite 204
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B 1A7
Canada
(604) 681-6543
(604) 688-1425
info@omnifilm.com
www.omnifilm.com

Distribution – Canada

Water Street Releasing Ltd.
111 Water St.
Suite 204
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B 1A7
Canada
(604) 681-6543
(604) 688-1425
omni@omnifilm.com
www.omnifilm.com

International distribution

Europe Images International
1 Rond-Point Victor Hugo
Issy-les-Moulineaux
92130
France
33 1 55 95 58 00 or 55 95
33 1 55 95 58 10
t.mino@m5audiovisuel.com
www.europeimages.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Child's Century of War (A)

A Child’s Century of War is a journey through the bloodiest century in history – from the perspective of children. Recent wars have claimed the lives of more than two million children and severely injured three times that number. In their own words, in their own voices, in their stories, children take us through the events that have shaped us all. Through their telling of it, these events are reduced to immediate, pint-sized personal triumphs and tragedies. En masse, their story is epic.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

120 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Shelley Saywell

Deborah Parks

Director and Scriptwriter

Shelley Saywell

Production

Bishari Film Productions Inc.
43 Northumberland St.,
Rear Building
Toronto Ontario
M6H 1R2
Canada
(416) 504-2610
(416) 504-9342
bisharifilms@bellnet.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Circus

The circus appeals to children and adults alike around the world, fuelling imaginations with excitement, danger, glamour and fun. This 13-part series captures the real life of Canada’s Garden Bros. Circus, both under the spotlights and behind the scenes, providing fresh insight into a chaotic, usually hidden world. Viewers will be caught up in the soaring grace – and brutal pace – of the magical and at times larger-than-life world of the circus.

Betacam SP

13 x 24 minutes

Colour

Producer

Patricia Phillips

Executive Producers

Patricia Phillips

Penny Ritco

Andy Thompson

Director and Scriptwriter

Daniel Zuckerbrot

Cast

The Garden Bros. Circus

Production

Great North Productions Inc.
3720 - 76th Ave.
Edmonton Alberta
T6B 2N9
Canada
(780) 440-2022
(780) 440-3400

www.greatnorth.ab.ca

Distribution

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.,
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Class Act

Class Act follows the passion, determination, dreams and realities of the students at Toronto’s Randolph School for the Performing Arts.

Betacam SP

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Ira Levy

Peter Williamson

Ron Singer

Francine Zuckerman

Executive Producers

Ira Levy

Peter Williamson

Ron Singer

Director

Shelley Saywell

Production

Breakthrough Films and Television / Hatasa
179 Mavety Street
Toronto Ontario
M6P 2M1
Canada
(416) 766-6588
(416) 769-1436
business@breakthroughfilms.com
www.breakthroughfilms.com

Distribution

Breakthrough Entertainment Inc.
122 Sherbourne St.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 2R4
Canada
(416) 766-6588
(416) 769-1436
business@breakthroughfilms.com
www.breakthroughfilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Coq de Montréal (Le)

Serge, known as “le Coq de Montréal,” spent 12 years in jail for various crimes. He now wants to lead a more “normal” life. But how can he accomplish this without losing his “integrity”? The answer: by playing himself in an American crime drama. That’s how it goes today: it’s far less risky – and more lucrative – to act in a gangster flick than it is to rob a bank.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour

Producer

Paul Lapointe

Director and Scriptwriter

Guy Sprung

Production

Érézi
3295, rue Ridgewood Bureau 8
Montreal Quebec
H3V 1B4
Canada
(514) 342-7668
(514) 342-8775
erezi@videotron.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Couleurs du sang (Les)

Artist André Biéler’s grandson explores the places and seasons that shaped his grandfather’s life and work. The story focuses on the meeting of two generations, two continents, two languages. By underscoring emotional and artistic connections, the film travels through time and space to celebrate the world of a major artist. This journey through the century uncovers the hidden sources of Biéler’s remarkable humanism.

Digital Betacam

53 minutes

Colour

Producer

Nathalie Barton

Director, Scriptwriter and Narrator

Philippe Baylaucq

Production

InformAction Films inc.
460, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Bureau 927
Montreal Quebec
H3B 1A7
Canada
(514) 284-0441
(514) 284-0772
info@informactionfilms.com
www.informactionfilms.com

Distribution

Delphis Films
5455, av. de Gaspé
Bureau 803
Montreal Quebec
H2T 3B3
Canada
(514) 843-3355
(514) 843-9574
distribution@delphisfilms.com
www.delphisfilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Cut to Pieces

Every year, 60,000 hysterectomies are performed in Canada – one of the highest rates in the world. It is estimated that up to 50 per cent are unnecessary. Through interviews with women, gynecological professionals and women’s health experts, Cut to Pieces explores the complexities of hysterectomy from a Canadian perspective. Narrated by Margot Kidder, this documentary aims to inform, educate and empower women.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

45 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Connie Edwards

Scriptwriter

Gayle Helfrick

Narrator

Margot Kidder

Production

Souleado Entertainment
9353 50th St.
Unit 14
Edmonton Alberta
T6B 2L5
Canada
(780) 490-4506
(780) 490-4507
souleado@compusmart.ab.ca
www.souleado.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Daniel Johnson, député de Bagot

Former Quebec premier Daniel Johnson was the first political leader to bring credibility to the notion of Quebec independence. His vision of Canada was based on the principle of equality among its two founding peoples. Nicknamed “Danny Boy” by cartoonist Normand Hudon, Johnson was an ambitious and sincere man who managed to rise above his negative depiction by editorialists and opinion-makers in the media.

Betacam SP

46 minutes

Colour, black and white

Executive Producer

Pierre Brochu

Line Producer

Virginie Millière

Director and Scriptwriter

Jean-Claude Marion

Narrator

Céline-Marie Bouchard

Production

Poly-Productions
640, rue St-Paul Ouest Bureau 606
Montreal Quebec
H3C 1L9
Canada
(514) 398-9373
(514) 393-9010
polyprod@polysoft.com

Distribution – Canada

Animavision
640, rue St-Paul Ouest Bureau 605
Montreal Quebec
H3C 1L9
Canada
(514) 393-3922
(514) 393-9010

Groupe Multimédia du Canada
261, rue Saint-Sacrement
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 3V2
Canada
(514) 844-3636
(514) 844-4990
mgc@the-mgc.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Danser par cœur

For more than 20 years, three folklorists have been collecting traditional songs and dances native to Quebec’s Outaouais region. They recently released a book and videocassette on their work. Their aim was not to produce an academic work of ethnographic research, but a guide to keep alive these unique dances of the Gatineau Valley. This documentary chronicles the folklorists’ initiatives by giving us an insight into their passion for traditional culture and follows them as they meet with local elders.

Betacam SP

27 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

André-Jean Blais

Production/Distribution

Vidéo Point Com
212, rue des Fondateurs
Aylmer Quebec
J9J 1M3
Canada
(819) 682-0076
(819) 682-1263
video.com@videotron.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Daughters of Freedom

Helen Freeman and Kathleen Makortoff were raised as Sons of Freedom Doukhobors and incarcerated as children in the New Denver Dormitory. The two women form a lifelong bond as they struggle to find true freedom as adults.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

45 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Christian Bruyère

Mary Bissel

Director and Scriptwriter

Christian Bruyère

Narrators

Kathleen Makortoff

Helen Freeman

Production

Daughters of Freedom Films
4411 Stone Crescent
West Vancouver British Columbia
V7W 1B8
Canada
(604) 669-9103
(604) 669-9073
bissell@intouch.bc.ca

International distribution

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

De parfaites inconnues

They were a group of 15: young women from Montréal, Québec City, Calgary and elsewhere in Canada. Water polo was their life, and they sacrificed everything for the Sydney Games – the first Olympics to include women’s water polo as an official sport. For one long year, a camera- turned its gaze on them – watching them prepare for the Games, intruding in their private lives, capturing their hopes and disappointments. For the first time, this documentary reveals the private and public moments behind the Olympic dream.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Luc Cyr

Carl Leblanc

Directors and Scriptwriters

Luc Cyr

Carl Leblanc

Production/Distribution

Ad Hoc Films inc.
24, av. du Mont-Royal Ouest
Bureau 905
Montreal Quebec
H2T 2S2
Canada
(514) 529-2198
(514) 529-8884
ad.hoc.f@sympatico.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Disasters of Century II

Over the years, disasters have rocked the world, stealing innocence and destroying lives. Some of these disasters are easily remembered, others are forgotten, but all should be reflected upon. This series looks not only at the devastating toll of natural and man-made disasters, but also at the far-reaching implications of each tragedy on our own social history – at how something that happened long ago affects the way we live today.

Betacam SP

2 x 46 minutes

Colour

Producer

Nova Herman

Executive Producer

Ron Goetz

Director

Chris Triffo

Scriptwriters

Bruce Edwards

Iain Maclean

Narrator

Bruce Edwards

Production

Partners In Motion
2704 10th Ave.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4T 1E9
Canada
(306) 545-2228
(306) 569-9616
jstecyk@partnersinmotion.com
www.partnersinmotion.com

Distribution

Harmony Entertainment Management Inc.
2704-10th Ave.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4N 3T3
Canada
(306) 545-2228
(306) 569-9616
jstecyk@partnersinmotion.com
www.partnersinmotion.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Divorce: What I see

Too much money, too little love. Touching, cruelly honest and often funny, this is a searing cinema vérité portrait of a divorced family and its ultimate victims: the children.

Digital Betacam

55 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Sun-Kyung Yi

Coproducer

Cornelia Principe

Production/Distribution – Canada

Aysha Productions Inc.
6-B Grange Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M5T 1C5
Canada
(416) 598-4959
(416) 598-4785
info@ayshaproductions.com
www.ayshaproductions.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Ten Seconds of Eternity: The Sprint for Olympic Gold

A dramatic look at the fastest sprinters in the world as they prepare for the race of their lives at the Sydney Olympic Games. In the year leading up to the 100-meter final, our cameras capture the testosterone-charged men at work and play on and off the track, chronicling their rivalry and bravado, as well as their quieter moments, in scintillating high-definition video.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

53 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

John Curtin

Scriptwriters

John Curtin

Paul Carvalho

Narrator

Vlasta Vrana

Production/Distribution – Canada

Kaos Films - Ten Seconds
1435 Bleury St., Suite 801
Montreal Quebec
H3A 2H7

(514) 848-9944
(514) 848-9606
kaosfilms@msn.com
www.kaosfilms.com

Coproduction - Japan

NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.)
2-2-1, Jinnan, Shibuya-Ku
Tokyo

Japan
81 3 5455-5873
81 3 3481-1453

International distribution

Film Transit International Inc.
252, boul. Gouin Est
Montreal Quebec
H3L 1A8
Canada
(514) 844-3358
(514) 844-7298
info@filmstransit.com
www.filmstransit.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Dying to Get In

Millions of people – the estimates vary between 25 and 80 million – roam the Earth looking for work and a permanent home. With the UN naming Canada as the best place to live in the world, it’s not surprising that one of their favourite destinations is Canada. However, as public attitudes harden, Canada is slamming the door. But that is not stopping the desperate: more and more, migrants are literally dying to get in.

Digital Betacam

2 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Christopher Sumpton

Robin Benger

Director and Scriptwriter

Robin Benger

Production

Cogent/Benger Productions Inc.
1352 Bathurst Street
Suite 201
Toronto Ontario
M5R 3H7
Canada
(416) 535-5394
(416) 535-9619
mail@cogentbenger.com
www.cogentbenger.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Each of Us Has a Name

Each of Us Has a Name is a journey into history for 7000 teenagers from around the world. Youths, together with survivors of the Holocaust, embark on a trip to Poland, where they tour the remains of Nazi concentration camps. The end of this pilgrimage is a three-kilometre march from the work camps of Auschwitz to the death camps of Birkenau. For the youths, the journey reveals a world they have never had to experience. For the survivors, it offers a chance to find closure to a traumatic time from the past.

Betacam SP

49 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers and Directors

Fern Levitt

Arnie Zipursky

Executive Producer

Arnie Zipursky

Production

Cambium Film & Video Productions Ltd.
18 Dupont St.
Toronto Ontario
M5R 1V2
Canada
(416) 964-8750
(416) 964-1980
cambium@cambiumentertainment.com
www.cambiumentertainment.com

Distribution – Canada

Cambium Releasing Inc.
18 Dupont St.
Toronto Ontario
M5R 1V2
Canada
(416) 964-8750
(416) 964-1980
cambium@cambiumentertainment.com
www.cambiumentertainment.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science IV

Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science examines real criminal cases and the central role forensics played in their outcome. Each episode focuses on the amazing technology and clever techniques used by actual forensic scientists and investigators involved in the case. The series combines documentary truth with the emotional power of dramatic recreation in bringing to life each compelling case.

Betacam SP

14 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Robert Lang

Robert Sandler

Executive Producers

Robert Lang

Robert Sandler

Directors

Harvey Crossland

Gail Harvey

Howard Wiseman

Nadine Pequeneza

Don Shebib

Peter Wellington

Ann Harbron

Scriptwriters

Thomas Lackey

Jill Golick

Myra Fried

Rebecca Schechter

Howard Wiseman

Robert Sandler

Host

Graham Green

Production

Exhibit A Season IV
20 Maud St., Suite 402
Toronto Ontario
M5V 2M5
Canada
(416) 504-9822
(416) 504-3608

Distribution – Canada

Kensington Communications
451 Adelaide St. W.
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1T1
Canada
(416) 504-9822
(416) 504-3608
kenscom@kensingtontv.com
www.kensingtontv.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Extremis

Every day, millions of people around the world are forced to confront extreme situations. The first episode in this series, Enfants sans enfance, looks at the lives of boys and girls who, every day, leave their childhoods behind to become soldiers, prostitutes and indentured labourers. Episode two, Pillage des ressources, explores how resources are being plundered in the name of progress, science and economic well-being. Extremis challenges our consciences to face realities that we would prefer to overlook.

Betacam SP

2 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers, Directors and Scriptwriters

Robert Cornellier

Patricio Henriquez

Raymonde Provencher

Production

Macumba International Inc.
3862, av. du Parc Lafontaine
Montreal Quebec
H2L 3M6
Canada
(514) 521-8303
(514) 521-0260
macumba@macumbainternational.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Fabuleuse histoire des sucreries (La)

Candies, chocolates, sweets… few of us can resist these delights. Our love of sweets has given rise to a huge industry devoted to satisfying the cravings of gluttons and gourmets of all ages, in Canada and around the world. La Fabuleuse Histoire des sucreries explores the wonderful world of confectionery, and examines Canada’s unique role in the industry. Indeed, Canada is becoming something of a rebel as it tries to establish itself as one of the world’s leading producers of confectionery goods.

Betacam SP

4 x 47 minutes

Colour, black and white

Executive Producer

Danièle Caloz

Director and Scriptwriter

Sophie Arthaud

Production

Médiatique
11 Ontario St.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 4L7
Canada
(416) 367-8464
(416) 367-8466
caloz@globalserve.net

Distribution – Canada

Patrimoine Canada Marketing
193 Dumoulin St. Suite 201
Winnipeg Manitoba
R2H 0E4
Canada
(204) 233-0694
(204) 231-4010
rivard@productionsrivard.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Fiancée de la vie (La)

According to a Malaysian proverb, death is life’s fiancé; life and death are inseparable, bound together by a kind of promise. However, we live in a society which separates the living from the dead, which continually tries to push back, if not eliminate, the realm of death. This documentary, which features children speaking about death, breaks the silence on a topic that adults fear.

Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer

Alain Corneau

Director and Scriptwriter

Carole Laganière

Production

Les Productions de la Chasse Galerie inc.
251, rue Bossé
C.P. 1415, Succursale Racine
Chicoutimi Quebec
G7H 5K3
Canada
(418) 545-2277
(418) 545-2566
chassegalerie@videotron.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Flightpath V

Flightpath V is the fifth season (total 65 episodes) of this series that examines aspects of civilian and military aviation… putting you in the cockpit. Among the aircraft featured are the new CH 149 Cormorant Search and Rescue Helicopter, German ECR Tornado Jets training in Labrador, and Chinese YAKS converging on Oliver, British Columbia. Filmed internationally, Flightpath combines documentary action, pilot profiles, rare archival film and technical tours of the featured aircraft.

Betacam SP

13 x 47 minutes

Colour

Producer

Mike Feheley

Executive Producers

Michael Maclear

Mike Feheley

Directors

Andrew Munger

Kelly Peckham

Roger Pyke

Pilar Segura

Christopher Terry

Scriptwriter and Narrator

Tom Gould

Production

Screenlife Productions Ltd.
144 Front St. W.
Suite 310
Toronto Ontario
M5J 2L7
Canada
(416) 260-2099
(416) 260-2042
info@screenlife.net

Distribution

Salter Street Films International
1668 Barrington St.
5th Floor
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2A2
Canada
(902) 420-1577
(902) 425-8260
salter@salter.com
www.salter.com/distribution

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Ghost Towns: Faded Dreams of Canada

A visit to a ghost town cannot help but spark curiosity about the human drama that once unfolded there. Within each town’s compelling human stories lay dreams of wealth, feats of wonder and moments of tragic despair. In search of a vanishing past, this series uncovers the pioneer spirit delicately preserved within the peeling paint, empty houses and abandoned gardens of Canada’s ghost towns.

Betacam SP

13 x 30 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Leigh Badgley

Executive Producer

Kirk Shaw

Directors

Maryvonne Micale

Maureen Kelleher

Scriptwriters

Keith Shaw

Maureen Kelleher

Production

Insight Film & Video Productions Ltd.
112 West 6th Ave.
Vancouver British Columbia
V5Y 1K6
Canada
(604) 623-3369 ext. 118
(604) 623-3448
insight@insightfilm.com
www.insightfilm.com

Distribution

Canamedia Productions Ltd.
381 Richmond St. East Suite #200
Toronto Ontario
M5A 1P6
Canada
(416) 483-7446
(416) 483-7529
canamed@canamedia.com
www.canamedia.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

God's Explorers

God’s Explorers is a compelling history of Catholic zeal and mission among the Native peoples of northern Canada. Set against the North’s rugged beauty and dramatized by rare archival footage, God’s Explorers illuminates a controversial past that has left the Roman Catholic Church in agony. This is a story about how the missionary priests – the Oblates of Mary Immaculate – changed the North just as it changed them.

Betacam SP

94 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Susan Cardinal

Brenda Maclean

Executive Producer

Tom Cox

Director, Scriptwriter and Narrator

Susan Cardinal

Production

God's Explorers
1728 Westmount Rd. N.W.
Calgary Alberta
T2N 3M3
Canada
(403) 270-0932
(403) 270-9703
westmount@cadvision.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Going Home

Genealogy has become exceedingly popular among millions of people worldwide, due in part to the Internet. This series follows a variety of Canadian questers as they return to the country of their family’s origins, sometimes for the first time in generations. Unpretentious and unpredictable, the series combines history and cultural exploration with travel to locations as diverse as Chile, Iceland, France, Poland and the British Isles.

Betacam SP

13 x 24 minutes

Colour

Producer

Chuck Scott

Executive Producers

Patricia Phillips

Andy Thompson

Directors

Various / Divers

Scriptwriters

Various / Divers

Production

Great North Productions Inc.
3720 - 76th Ave.
Edmonton Alberta
T6B 2N9
Canada
(780) 440-2022
(780) 440-3400

www.greatnorth.ab.ca

Distribution

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.,
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Grandes institutions du Québec II (Les)

Les Grandes Institutions du Québec casts a new light on institutions which helped shape Quebec. Based on solid historical scholarship – using the resources of experts, archival material and collective memories – the program reveals the culture and the soul of Quebec society by telling the often unknown stories of these institutions.

Betacam SP

8 x 60 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Lucie Poulin

Marc St-Onge

Pierre Nadeau

Executive Producer

Lucie Poulin

Directors

Marc St-Onge

Marie-Claude Harvey

Marie-Hélène Grenier

Simon Barrette

Scriptwriters

Marie-Frédérique Laberge-Milot

Marc St-Onge

Denis Chouinard

Claude Fugère

Nicole Messier

Marie-Claude Harvey

Narrators

Béatrice Picard

Valérie Le Maire

Paul-Tex Lecor

Production

Le Groupe Sagittaire
655, rue Parthenais
Montreal Quebec
H2K 3R7
Canada
(514) 529-2800
(514) 873-8151
sagittaire@sympatico.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Chiefs

Chiefs relates the saga of the great leaders, warriors and diplomats of the First Nations whose stories form a central drama of Canada and the North American continent. A blend of documentary and dramatic re-enactments, Chiefs brings to life the power, spirit and mystery of the First Nations. The series also seeks to separate the myth from the men, to tell the story of leaders who could be equally Machiavellian, magnanimous, brilliant and brave.

Digital Betacam

4 x 46 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Richard Elson

Executive Producer

Arnie Gelbart

Directors

Brian McKenna

Gil Cardinal

Scriptwriters

Brian McKenna

Gil Cardinal

Cast

August Schellenberg

Tyrone Tootoosis

Production

Galafilm Productions (IV) Inc.
5643, rue Clark
Bureau 300
Montreal Quebec
H2T 2V5
Canada
(514) 273-4252
(514) 273-8689
galafilm@galafilm.com
www.galafilm.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Grands comédiens de chez nous (Les)

This biographical series profiles three of Quebec’s leading actors: Michel Côté, Charlotte Boisjoli and Rémy Girard. They share their warmest memories and recall some of the unforgettable moments in theatre and television that have now become an integral part of Quebec’s cultural heritage.

Betacam SP

3 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Pierre L. Touchette

Alain Simard

Executive Producer

Luc Châtelain

Directors

Marshall Johnson

Robert Verge

Narrators

André Cailloux

Nathalie Breuer

Isabelle Lacasse

Cast

Rémy Girard

Michel Côté

Charlotte Boisjoli

Production

Amérimage Spectra inc.
822, rue Sherbrooke Est
Montreal Quebec
H2L 1K4
Canada
(514) 525-7833
(514) 525-8033
pierre.touchette@equipespectra.ca
www.amerimage-spectra.ca

Distribution – Canada

Spectra International Distribution
400, boulevard De Maisonneuve Ouest
Montreal Quebec
H3A 1L4
Canada
(514) 525-7732
(514) 525-8033
international@equipespectra.ca
www.spectra-international.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Growing Up Canadian

Growing Up Canadian is a social history of 20th-century Canada. Six one-hour documentaries elegantly explore the myths and realities of Canadian childhood through family life, schooling, introduction to the workplace, play, health and the media. The series marks the contribution of childhood and youth experience in defining Canada as it grew into full nationhood in the 20th century.

Digital Betacam

6 x 60 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Hoda Elatawi

Executive Producers

Sheila Petzold

Ken Stewart

Marcel Clement

Directors

Sheila Petzold

Susan Terrill

Scriptwriters

Susan Terrill

Sheila Petzold

Production

Telewerx Productions Inc.
163 Holmwood Ave.
Ottawa Ontario
K1S 2P3
Canada
(613) 231-5400
(613) 231-5494
spetzold@telewerx.com

GUC Inc.
c/o General Assembly Production Center
14 Colonnade Road, Suite 180
Ottawa Ontario
K2E 7M6
Canada

Distribution – Canada

Magic Lantern Communications Ltd.
1075 North Service Rd. W.
Suite 27
Oakville Ontario
L6M 2G2
Canada
(905) 827-2755
(905) 827-2655
info@magiclantern.ca
www.magiclantern.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Grandir dans la rue - 12 ans plus tard

In 1988, Luc Côté and Robbie Hart travelled to Cuzco, Peru, to shoot a documentary about street kids. Now, they return to Peru to search for these same children and see who they’ve become. We follow their journey and discover the compelling story of what’s happened to the kids 12 years later.

Betacam SP

53 minutes

Colour

Producers and Directors

Robbie Hart

Luc Côté

Scriptwriter

Robbie Hart

Narrators

Robbie Hart

Luc Côté

Production/Distribution

Productions Adobe
5283, avenue du Parc Bureau 5
Montreal Quebec
H2V 4G9
Canada
(514) 272-3113
(514) 272-3301
courrier@adobeproductions.com
www.adobeproductions.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Gwishalaayt - The Spirit Wraps Around You

Shot on location in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska, this powerful film follows the compelling stories of six weavers who are bringing to life the traditional form of Chilkat weaving among coastal First Nations people.

Betacam SP

47 minutes

Colour

Producers

Cari Green

Barb Cranmer

Director and Scriptwriter

Barb Cranmer

Production

Nimpkish Wind Productions
2772 Spruce St., Suite 107
Vancouver British Columbia
V6H 2R2
Canada
(604) 731-8084
(604) 731-8011
cari_green@telus.net

Distribution – Canada

Moving Images Distribution
402 West Pender St.
Suite 606
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B 1T6
Canada
(604) 684-3014
(604) 684-7165
mailbox@movingimages.ca
www.movingimages.ca

International distribution

Magpie Releasing
284 Wellington Cr., Suite 2
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3M 0B5
Canada
(204) 453-1915
(204) 233-2610
nola@magpiereleasing.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Hair, There and Everywhere

Hair, There and Everywhere journeys through the underbelly of our culture’s obsession with body-hair removal. It asks, “Is our antipathy a media-induced fad, or something with historic roots that are more than skin deep?” Through interviews with practitioners/estheticians, shave slaves, biologists, philosophers and trend-setters, the film penetrates to the root of the removal revolution, journeying behind closed doors to examine our cultural signposts and probe the influences of fashion, pornography and big business.

Betacam SP

46 minutes

Colour

Producers

Lael McCall

Penny Wheelwright

Director and Scriptwriter

Penny Wheelwright

Production

Wheelwright Ink Ltd.
99 Browning Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M4K 1W2
Canada
(416) 925-3766
(416) 925-3116
starryn@direct.ca

International distribution

Sextant International
175 Bloor St. W., Suite 610, North Tower
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3R8
Canada
(416) 928-2786

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Head Over Wheels

Head Over Wheels is a loving and often humorous look at women’s relationships with cars. Each episode addresses a single theme and features women speaking about such topics as speed and racing, women who turn their cars into art objects, how cars are marketed to women, memorable road trips, and the car as a place for passion. Each woman’s story is interwoven with others into an entertaining and engaging half hour.

Betacam SP

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producer

Andrew Koster

Executive Producer

Andrew Koster

Director

Shereen Jerrett

Scriptwriter

Jane Farrow

Production

Credo Entertainment Corporation
120 Sherbrook St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3C 2B4
Canada

Distribution

Credo Releasing
120 Sherbrook St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3C 2B4
Canada
(204) 989-8188
(204) 989-8187
cri@credocorp.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Heartbeat of the Earth II

This series features the land, lives and visions of the Aboriginal peoples of Northern Saskatchewan. Through the use of profiles, viewers learn about the peoples’ ongoing relationship to the land and the stories and songs that tell their histories. The series explores and compares the use of traditional skills with today’s knowledge, bringing new energy and relevance to ancient lessons and beliefs.

Betacam SP

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Derek Gale

Chad Galloway

Fabian Ratt

Executive Producer

Marty Ballentyne

Scriptwriters

Fabian Ratt

Barrie O. Ward

Production

Y'atthe Askiy Productions
Box 1529
La Ronge Saskatchewan
S0J 1L0
Canada
(306) 425-4003
(306) 425-3123
mbc.tv@sk.sympatico.ca
www.mbcradio.com

Distribution

Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation
Box 1529
La Ronge Saskatchewan
S0J 1L0
Canada
(306) 425-4003
(306) 425-3123
mbc.tv@sk.sympatico.ca
www.mbcradio.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Home Again

Hopeful, funny and tragic, Home Again explores with depth, humour and compassion the upheaval, challenges and crises that happen to families when their adult children return home to live. Using a direct-cinema approach and a chronological structure, the film interweaves the stories of three families who find themselves on the edge, off-balance, and forced to cope in new ways.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Maureen Judge

Production

Making Movies Inc.
265 Albany Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M5R 3C7
Canada
(416) 516-1833
(416) 920-8130
maureen@makinmovies.tv

Distribution – Canada

McNabb and Connolly
60 Briarwood Ave.
Mississauga Ontario
L5G 3N6
Canada
1-866-722-1522
1-866-722-1822
mcnabbconnolly@homeroom.ca
www.mcnabbconnolly.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Cree Spoken Here

There are more than 50 Native languages in Canada today. But experts believe that only three of them will survive this century. Cree Spoken Here is an hour-long documentary about the resurgence of the Cree language in Northern Quebec.

Betacam SP

48 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Ernest Webb

Executive Producer

Catherine Bainbridge

Directors and Scriptwriters

Ernest Webb

Neil Diamond

Narrators

Ernest Webb

Michèle Audette

Production

Rezolution Pictures
440, rue Villeneuve Ouest
Outremont Quebec
H2V 2R5
Canada
(514) 272-8241
(514) 278-9914
christina.fon@sympatico.ca
www.rezolutionpictures.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Il chante avec les loups

This heartfelt documentary, infused with a spirit of sympathy and generosity, looks at a man who has an exceptional rapport with wild animals. Michel Pageau and his companion Louise take in sick animals, treat them and then release them back into their natural habitat. This documentary explores the profound ties that can bind humans and animals, and reveals some of the unknown and unexpected aspects of wild-animal behaviour.

Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producer

Yves Lafontaine

Director

Carlos Ferrand

Scriptwriters

Louise Girard

Michel Garneau

Cast

Michel Pageau

Louise Pageau

Production

Productions Nova Média inc.
34, rue Gamble Est
Bureau 201
B.P. 161
Rouyn-Noranda Quebec
J9X 3B7
Canada
(819) 767-6454
(819) 797-4945
ylafontaine@productionsnovamedia.com
www.productionsnovamedia.com

Distribution – Canada

Office national du film du Canada
3155, ch. de la Côte-de-Liesse
Montreal Quebec
H4N 2N4
Canada
(514) 283-9000
(514) 283-9482

www.onf.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Île d'Anticosti (L')

This documentary provides a stunning portrait of Anticosti Island, a natural wonder located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Anticosti possesses a magical quality, and anyone who has had a chance to visit the island is bewitched by its perfect beauty, natural diversity and unique history. L’Île d’Anticosti offers viewers a chance to observe what humans rarely see at close hand: the island’s magnificent flora and fauna.

Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour

Producer

Paul Cadieux

Director and Scriptwriter

Harold Arsenault

Narrator

Luis de Cespedes

Production

Les Productions Bord de Mer
547, Montée Wakheam
Gaspe Quebec
G4X 1Z9
Canada
(418) 368-3866
(418) 368-1859
harolda@globetrotter.net

Les Productions Espace Vert
3401, rue St-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6190
(514) 939-2034
cadieux@megafun.ca

Distribution

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Imprisoned in Our Hearts: The Relocation of Hebron

In 1959, Inuit from Northern Labrador were uprooted and relocated to various communities in the south. The relocation turned out to be a traumatic and disruptive experience for the Inuit and their descendents. The social and economic equilibrium that they had known in the past was shattered and was never recovered. The decision to relocate Hebron was to have consequences for Northern Inuit that continue to this day.

Betacam SP

90 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer

Fran Williams

Director

Nigel Markham

Production

OkalaKatiget Society
P.O. Box 160
Nain, Labrador Labrador
A0P 1L0
Canada
(709) 922-2955
(709) 922-2293
nakit.oks@nf.sympatico.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

IN THE SHADOW OF THE SAINT

Journalist Ken Wiwa returns to Nigeria to bury his father, the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was hanged for struggling against Shell Oil and the Nigerian dictatorship. The journey is an opportunity for Ken Wiwa to come to terms with his father, a man with whom he had a difficult relationship. He also meets the children of African heroes Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela to better understand what itmeans to live in the shadow of a great parent.

Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Mark Johnston

Stephen Milton

Executive Producer

Mark Johnston

Director

Richard Meech

Scriptwriter, Narrator and Host

Ken Wiwa

Production

Nomad Films Inc.
2 Matilda Street
Toronto Ontario
M4M 1L9
Canada
(416) 533-9658
1-866-746-7011
info@nomadfilms.ca
www.nomadfilms.ca

Coproduction – United Kingdom

BBC
80 Wood Lane
London
W12 0TT
England
020 8576 7932
020 8225 8251

Distribution – Canada

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Innocent Tricks

Innocent Tricks tells the story of two suburban teens’ involvement in the sex trade and its dramatic impact on them and their families.

Betacam SP

47 minutes

Colour

Producer

Rob Bromley

Executive Producer

Hugh Beard

Director

Brad Quenville

Scriptwriter

John Ritchie

Narrator

Randall Carpenter

Production

Force Four Entertainment
1152 Mainland St., Suite 310
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B 4X2
Canada
(604) 669-4424
(604) 669-4535
tv@forcefour.com
www.forcefour.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Innu Assi

The culture of the Innu of Quebec’s North Shore and Labrador remains vibrant. Innu men and women live in harmony with their land and their values, although they are often forced to confront the difficult reality of their existence. This documentary captures a fleeting moment in the life of a community, caught between its own view of the world and the worldview that white society seeks to impose. This non-judgmental documentary offers an on-the-fly glimpse of this community… a visit as brief as the time it takes to say Kuei-Kuei !

Betacam SP
DV Cam

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producer

Zacharie Bellefleur

Executive Producer

Eddy Malenfant

Directors

Joséphine St-Onge

Évelyne St-Onge

Eddy Malenfant

Johanne Nepton

Scriptwriters

Évelyne St-Onge

Zacharie Bellefleur

Eddy Malenfant

Joséphine Bacon

Johanne Nepton

Host

Évelyne St-Onge

Production/Distribution

Productions Manitou inc. (Les) (Mani-Uténam)
2 ti-Basse, Malioténam C.P. 1243
Sept-Iles Quebec
G4R 4X7
Canada
(418) 927-3431
(418) 927-3431
manitou@lanzen.net

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

International Accordion Festival from Montmagny (The)

Around the world, small groups of music lovers strive to preserve the traditions of accordion music. One of the world’s most important accordion festivals takes place in Montmagny, Quebec. Each year, the festival features a range of musical styles which highlight the instrument’s range. This documentary also traces the history of the accordion and showcases some of the spectacular musical performances from Montmagny and elsewhere.

Betacam SP

48 minutes

Colour

Producers

Michel Laliberté

Sylvie Pagé

Director

Isabelle Turcotte

Scriptwriters

Nicole Marchand

Isabelle Turcotte

Host

Tracey McKee

Cast

Marcel Azzola

Raoul Barboza

Sylvia Pagni

Raynald Ouellet

Production/Distribution

Productions Tout Écran inc.
2333, av. Chapdelaine
Bureau 800
Saint-Foy Quebec
G1V 4X4
Canada
(418) 657-1744
(418) 657-1655
productions@toutecran.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Is Love Enough?

Until recently, the intellectually disabled were segregated from society, living in institutions and routinely sterilized. It was assumed that any of their offspring would be equally handicapped. However, the intellectually disabled can have “normal” children – and many have a desire to do so. This intimate portrait of the day-to-day lives of intellectually handicapped families underscores the essential dilemma: how to balance the basic human desire and right to parenthood with what’s in the best interest of the children.

Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producer

Alan Handle

Director

Tom Puchniak

Scriptwriters

Tom Puchniak

Alan Handle

Production

Alan Handel Productions
310 Victoria Ave., Suite 102
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 2M9
Canada
(514) 487-1881
(514) 487-7796
alan@handelproductions.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

J'ai pour toi un lac

Many of Quebec’s approximately one million lakes are “sick,” the victims of water pollution from a variety of sources: pleasure boats, agricultural effluvia, acid rain and logging. Lakes that are in close proximity to urban areas are more likely to suffer premature old age. This documentary ponders some of the crucial issues surrounding the future of Quebec’s lakes.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour

Producer

Pierre Brochu

Executive Producer

Raymond Gauthier

Director

Alain Belhumeur

Scriptwriters

Alain Belhumeur

Jacques Couture

Production

Productions Point de Mire Inc.
154, av. Laurier Ouest
Bureau 302
Montreal Quebec
H2T 2N7
Canada
(514) 278-8922
(514) 278-8925
cpare@pdemire.com

Distribution – Canada

Animavision
640, rue St-Paul Ouest Bureau 605
Montreal Quebec
H3C 1L9
Canada
(514) 393-3922
(514) 393-9010

Groupe Multimédia du Canada
261, rue Saint-Sacrement
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 3V2
Canada
(514) 844-3636
(514) 844-4990
mgc@the-mgc.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Jailhouse Romance

Jailhouse Romance is an intimate story of three women who meet and marry men convicted of violent crimes. Shot on location inside the walls of Canadian maximum- and medium-security prisons, this compelling documentary examines the familiar and obscure side of love relationships. It presents a rare window on a complex world and explores the loneliness and longing on both sides of the wire.

Betacam SP

45 minutes

Colour

Producer

Annette Clarke

Director

Wendy Rowland

Production/Distribution

Ruby Line Productions Inc.
172 Patrick St.
St. John's Newfoundland
A1C 5C4
Canada
(709) 753-8111
(709) 754-2351
rubyline@roadrunner.nf.net

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Jess Goes West

Jess Goes West is a lyrical road movie that follows the personal journey of a young Quebec nationalist as she travels west for the first time. Like her mother, who made the cross-country journey to Banff in the 1960s, Jessica sets out to see the rest of Canada and to find out who she is.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

44 minutes

Colour

Producers

Catherine Bainbridge

Katerina Cizek

Joanne Robertson

Director

Guylaine Dionne

Scriptwriter and Narrator

Jessica Vigneault

Production

Wild Heart Productions
5678, Park Ave., Bureau 48145
Montreal Quebec
H2V 4S8
Canada
(514) 948-1714
(514) 948-1737
kcisek@yahoo.com

Distribution – Canada

Delphis Films
5455, av. de Gaspé
Bureau 803
Montreal Quebec
H2T 3B3
Canada
(514) 843-3355
(514) 843-9574
distribution@delphisfilms.com
www.delphisfilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Jeux de société IV

All societies are made up of smaller “micro-societies,” and Quebec is no exception. Each program in this series focuses on a specific group, telling its story, introducing its members and contrasting the group’s similarities and differences with others. By learning about these diverse groups, we emerge with a better understanding of the wider social web of which they are a part.

Betacam SP

20 x 60 minutes

Colour

Executive Producers

Jaquelin Bouchard

Daniel Beauchesne

Line Producer

André Gariépy

Directors

Sylvie Guernon

Luc Charbonneau

Scriptwriter, Narrator and Animator

Joane Prince

Production

Productions Pixcom inc.
1720, rue du Canal
Montreal Quebec
H3K 3E6
Canada
(514) 931-1188
(514) 931-2126
info@pixcom.com
www.pixcom.com

Distribution

Pixcom International inc.
1720, rue du Canal
Montreal Quebec
H3K 3E6
Canada
(514) 931-1188
(514) 931-2126
info@pixcom.com
www.pixcom.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Journey to Kapasseni: A Refugee's Gift

While visiting their home village of Kapasseni, two Mozambiquan refugees – and now Canadian citizens – hear a plea from the village chief, who asks for help in rebuilding the local school. Upon returning to Canada, Joseph and Perpetua Alfazema organize a successful grass-roots fundraising effort. Joined by several Canadian friends, Joseph and Perpetua travel back to Mozambique. For all of the travellers, the journey becomes the experience of a lifetime.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour

Producers

Shivon Robinsong

Bill Weaver

Director and Scriptwriter

Bill Weaver

Cast

Joseph Alfazema

Perpetua Alfazema

Carol Newell

Ben Fox

Production

Across Borders Media
1316 Point St.
Victoria British Columbia
V8S 1A5
Canada
(250) 386-3182
(250) 386-3183
details@acrossborders.com
www.acrossborders.com

Distribution – Canada

McNabb and Connolly
60 Briarwood Ave.
Mississauga Ontario
L5G 3N6
Canada
1-866-722-1522
1-866-722-1822
mcnabbconnolly@homeroom.ca
www.mcnabbconnolly.ca

International distribution

Across Borders Media
1316 Point St.
Victoria British Columbia
V8S 1A5
Canada
(250) 386-3182
(250) 386-3183
details@acrossborders.com
www.acrossborders.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Kink

Kink is a disclosure of one of the last taboos, the world of “kinky” sexual practices. Kink explores a variety of hedonistic lifestyles by following the individuals who choose to live their lives on a sexual edge, from their private S&M dungeons to their public play parties, from the leather store to the grocery store. Kink tells the subjects’ stories, in their words.

Digital Betacam

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Stacey Offman

David Paperny

Executive Producers

David Paperny

Charles Bishop

Directors

Dennis Heaton

Audrey Mehler

Production

Kink Productions
25 East 2nd Ave., 3rd Floor
Vancouver British Columbia
V5T 1B3

(604) 228-1960
(604) 228-1911
info@papernyfilms.com

Salter Street Films Limited
1668 Barrington St.
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2A2
Canada
(902) 420-1577
(902) 425-8250
salter@salter.com
www.salter.com

Distribution – Canada

Showcase Television
121 Bloor St. E., Suite 200
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-0022
(416) 967-0044
feedback@showcase.ca
www.showcase.ca

International distribution

Salter Street Films International
1668 Barrington St.
5th Floor
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2A2
Canada
(902) 420-1577
(902) 425-8260
salter@salter.com
www.salter.com/distribution

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Lauzon Lauzone

This biography offers an up-close-and-personal look at the late Quebec filmmaker Jean-Claude Lauzon, and fea-tures excerpts from his work as well as the testimony of those who knew him at different times of his life. Lauzon emerges as an intense and extremely clear-sighted man, a fearless and troubled artist who made his mark on Canadian cinema. Behind the façade of arrogance – largely media-created – lay a vulnerable man who fought a constant battle against his fear of succumbing to depression or madness.

Digital Betacam

minutes

Colour

Producers

Lyse Lafontaine

Pierre Latour

Directors

Louis Bélanger

Isabelle Hébert

Scriptwriter

Isabelle Hébert

Narrator

Gilbert Sicotte

Production

Lyla Films inc.
375, boul. de Maisonneuve Est
Montreal Quebec
H2X 1K1
Canada
(514) 933-4003
(514) 933-0818
lylafilms@biz.videotron.ca

Distribution

Film Tonic inc.
3530, boul. Saint-Laurent
Montreal Quebec
H2X 2V1
Canada
(514) 847-3536
(514) 847-9035
platour@digiscreen.ca
www.filmtonic.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Life and Times of Buzz Hargrove (The)

Aggressive, confrontational, passionate. This is the public face of Buzz Hargrove, leader of the Canadian Autoworkers Union. The TV news clips and newspapers reveal a man single-mindedly committed to the rights of working people, willing to take to the picket lines, occupy factories and relentlessly challenge the various levels of government on issues of social justice. Love him or hate him, Buzz Hargrove is arguably one of the most powerful and influential public figures in Canada today.

Betacam SP

47 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Anne Pick

Executive Producer

Laszlo Barna

Narrator

David McIlwraith

Production

Barna-Alper Productions
366 Adelaide St. W.
Suite 700
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1R9
Canada
(416) 979-0676
(416) 979-7476
info@bap.ca
www.bap.ca

Distribution – Canada

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.,
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Life and Times of Gordon Pinsent (The)

It’s almost impossible for a Canadian not to know his face or voice: for almost 50 years, he’s acted, written, and directed in every medium there is. Yet no matter how many roles, prizes or praises come his way, Gordon Pinsent needs more. This biography examines his extraordinary life – from his start in Winnipeg community theatre, to his venture in Hollywood, to The Rowdyman, the feature he wrote, directed and starred in – and which transformed his career.

Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producer

Laine Drewery

Executive Producer

Laszlo Barna

Director

Cynthia Banks

Scriptwriter

Paul McGrath

Narrator

Rick Mercer

Production

Barna-Alper Productions
366 Adelaide St. W.
Suite 700
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1R9
Canada
(416) 979-0676
(416) 979-7476
info@bap.ca
www.bap.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Life and Times of Robert Munsch (The)

This wonderfully alive documentary celebrates the life, works and performances of Robert Munsch, Canada’s best-selling author (who happens to write for children). This biography with a difference captures the heart and soul of Munsch’s work, moving viewers to tears as well as laughter. Performance footage highlighting Bob’s amazing interaction with children, and interviews with Bob, his family, friends and colleagues, help tell the poignant, captivating story of this magical storyteller.

Digital Betacam

48 minutes

Colour

Producer

Barbara Barde

Director and Scriptwriter

Michael McNamara

Narrator

Susan Rubes

Production/Distribution – Canada

Take 3 Productions Inc.
49 Spadina Ave.
Suite 302
Toronto Ontario
M5V 2J1
Canada
(416) 595-5850
(416) 595-5851
lstregger@upfront.ca

International distribution

Chestnut Park Productions Ltd.
1 Atlantic Ave.
Suite 103
Toronto Ontario
M6K 3E7
Canada
(416) 537-5004
(416) 537-8984

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Life and Times of Veronica Tennant (The): Renaissance Woman

Passion and determination made Veronica Tennant a world-renowned prima ballerina. She danced alongside superstars like Nureyev and Baryshnikov. Ballet was her first dream, but many things stood in her way: she was shy and awkward, herdance teachers thought her body was wrong for ballet, she had serious injuries and was told she could no longer dance. Her triumph is a victory of discipline and desire over circumstance. Renaissance Woman is a visual feast.

Digital Betacam

46 minutes

Colour

Producer

Peter Guthrie

Director

David Langer

Scriptwriter

Paul McGrath

Narrator

Donald Sutherland

Production

MDF Productions
148 Parliament St.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 2Z1
Canada
(416) 934-1100
(416) 934-1099
peter@mdfproductions.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Lise Watier, la passion des affaires

Lise Watier was one of the first businesswomen in Quebec to establish a dominant presence in the cosmetics industry. Although her early ambitions were thwarted – she had wanted to become a concert pianist until pleurisy confined her to a hospital bed – she achieved tremendous success in the business world. Despite the pitfalls of her chosen path, she managed to establish her business in France, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Japan. In this documentary, she shares some of the values which have guided her over the years and discusses her hopes for the future.

Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer and Producer

Éric Fournier

Director

Pierre L'Espérance

Scriptwriter

Christian Fournier

Narrator

Vincent Bilodeau

Cast

Lise Watier

Marie-Lise Andrade

Nathalie Andrade

Laurette Watier

Production

Téléféric 9063-7638 Québec
225, rue Roy Bureau 200 B
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1M5
Canada
(514) 843-3297
(514) 843-4990
Teleferic@sympatico.ca
www.teleferic.com

Distribution – Canada

Distribution Téléféric
214-2225, chemin de Georgeville
Quebec
J1X 3W3
Canada
(514) 843-3297
(514) 843-4990
teleferic@sympatico.ca
www.teleferic.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Little Miracles II

A ground-breaking series, Little Miracles takes viewers inside the walls of Toronto’s world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children. Audiences witness real-life, dramatic stories as they unfold at the hospital: a once profoundly deaf girl who hears for the first time, a child’s devastating struggle with epilepsy and a teenager’s journey as she undergoes surgery for cancer. The series chronicles the ongoing stories of the “little miracles” performed everyday at the hospital – miracles of kindness and caring, scientific discovery and saving human lives.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

26 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Ira Levy

Peter Williamson

Ron Singer

Executive Producers

Ira Levy

Ron Singer

Peter Williamson

Elaine Waisglass

Director

Barri Cohen

Narrator

Gail Kerbal

Production

Breakthrough Films & Television Inc.
122 Sherbourne St.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 2R4
Canada
(416) 766-6588
(416) 769-1436
business@breakthroughfilms.com
www.breakthroughfilms.com

Distribution

Breakthrough Entertainment Inc.
122 Sherbourne St.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 2R4
Canada
(416) 766-6588
(416) 769-1436
business@breakthroughfilms.com
www.breakthroughfilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Lives Interrupted

This series of true stories looks at what happens when lives are interrupted by events such as rape, war and incarceration, and how those affected discover meaning in the disruption and in life itself. Each show uses first-person interviews and re-enactments to look at the interrupted life and to reveal the “light after each tunnel of darkness.”

Betacam SP

13 x 23 minutes

Colour

Producers

Patricia Michael

Tiina Soomet

Executive Producer

Jim Hanley

Directors

Margaret Konopacki

Dan Robinson

Production

Sleeping Giant Productions
260 Richmond St. W., Suite 100
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1W6
Canada
(416) 351-9240
(416) 351-9241
giant@inforamp.net

Distribution

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.,
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Living Stories

Living Stories is a program whose purpose is to provide information to help those – or someone they love – beat a diagnosis of cancer. Each episode combines a brief profile of one of six subjects and an informal discussion during which the subjects talk about how their illness has affected every aspect of their lives: lifestyle, work, psyche, relationships, family, sexuality and spirituality.

Betacam SP

6 x 30 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Andrea Nemtin

Karen MacKenna

Directors and Scriptwriters

Stefan Randström

Karen MacKenna

Production

Living Stories Inc./PTV Productions Inc.
585 Markham Street
2nd Floor
Toronto Ontario
M6G 2L7
Canada
(416) 531-0100
(416) 531-3500
info@ptvproductions.ca

Distribution

PTV Releasing Inc.
585 Markham St
2nd Floor
Toronto Ontario
M6G 2L7
Canada
(416) 531-0100
(416) 531-3500
info@ptvproductions.ca
www.ptvproductions.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Made in China

Made in China tells the poignant stories of adopted children from China, predominantly girls, who live with white families and face the challenge of making sense of their identity and their roots at a very young age. They talk about race, racism, birth parents and whether they will return to China to search for their roots. These amazing children reveal the joys and pain of living in visibly adoptive Canadian families.

Digital Betacam

47 minutes

Colour

Producer

Shan Tam

Executive Producer

Michael Parker

Director and Scriptwriter

Karin Lee

Narrator

Margery Duda

Production

Holiday Pictures Ltd.
226-3495 Cambie St.
Vancouver British Columbia
V5Z 4R3
Canada
(604) 879-6613
(604) 873-6632
info@holidaypictures.ca
www.holidaypictures.ca

Distribution – Canada

Moving Images Distribution
402 West Pender St.
Suite 606
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B 1T6
Canada
(604) 684-3014
(604) 684-7165
mailbox@movingimages.ca
www.movingimages.ca

International distribution

Holiday Pictures Ltd.
226-3495 Cambie St.
Vancouver British Columbia
V5Z 4R3
Canada
(604) 879-6613
(604) 873-6632
info@holidaypictures.ca
www.holidaypictures.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Mandrake: A Magical Life

Leon Mandrake was a master of reinvention in a world of wonders. This biography resurrects and replays the great Canadian magician who mesmerized North American audiences from the 1930s to the 1980s. From his beginnings in tawdry nightclubs to the grand stage shows of vaudeville, impresario Mandrake read minds, performed large-scale illusions and sleights of hand. When times changed, so did he, making the transition from the big stage to the small box with his numerous television appearances.

Digital Betacam

45 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Lynn Booth

Director

Mary Ungerleider

Scriptwriters

Lynn Booth

Mary Ungerleider

Production

Make Believe Media Inc.
145 Keefer Street
Suite 201
Vancouver British Columbia
V6A 1X3
Canada
(604) 874-9498
(604) 874-9484
trish@makebelievemedia.com
www.makebelievemedia.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Marymount Again

The year was 1977. René Lévesque was in power in Quebec; Les Canadiens were a dynasty for the last time. Elvis Presley passed away. It was in this era of transition that a group of students at Marymount High in Montréal left their friends and their school behind on a new journey: life. Now, 22 years later, the students return, along with photographer and first time filmmaker Paul Perrier, to document the different roads some of these people have travelled.

Betacam SP

40 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer, Director and Narrator

Paul Perrier

Executive Producer

Mitch Azaria

Scriptwriters

Paul Perrier

Peter Vamos

Cast

Paul Perrier

Paricia Algorotti

Ray Cassels

Terry O'Malley

Production

Marymount Again...
2 Mathilda St.
Toronto Ontario
M4M 1L9
Canada
(416) 466-6996
paulperrier@on.aibn.com

Good Earth Productions
314 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M6R 2M7
Canada
(416) 535-3379
azaria@goodearthproductions.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Maureen Forrester: The Diva in Winter

How does a renowned performing artist deal with the gradual but relentless passing of time? The question is central to this biography of the great Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester. Through archival footage, frank interviews with the singer and the testimony of those who have lived or worked with her, the film traces her progress, from modest beginnings in Montréal to a triumphal career as one of the great musical interpreters of our time.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Craig Graham

Director and Scriptwriter

Donald Winkler

Narrators

Donald Winkler

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Production/Distribution – Canada

Cinepro CTF Productions Ltd./Ltée
254, rue Berlioz
Suite 108
Nuns Island Quebec
H3E 1B9
Canada
(514) 768-4558
(514) 766-2865
cinepro@qc.aibn.com

International distribution

CBC International Sales
P.O. Box 500
Station A
Toronto Ontario
M5W 1E6
Canada
(416) 205-3500
(416) 205-3482
cbcis@cbc.ca
www.cbcis.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Maux d'amour

Problems with libido, erectile inadequacy, sexual compulsion, menopause, male menopause – there are many varieties of sexual dysfunction, most of which can be treated. Drawing on real-life experiences, dramatic re-enactments and interviews with specialists, this series looks at some of the solutions available to those suffering from sexual problems.

Betacam SP

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producer

Pierre Lawrence

Executive Producers

André Larin

Michel Bissonnette

Vincent Leduc

Paul Dupont-Hébert

Directors

Pierre Lawrence

Sylvain Laforest

Louis-Roland Leduc

Lisette Marcotte

Liliane Bergevin

Scriptwriters

Johanne de Bellefeuille

Pierre Couture

Cast

Sylvie Potvin

Luc Proulx

Céline Bernier

Louis Sincennes

Production/Distribution

Zone3 inc.
1055, boul. René-Lévesque Est
Bureau 300
Montreal Quebec
H2L 4S5
Canada
(514) 284-5555
(514) 985-4458
cdaneau@zone3.ca
www.zone3.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Me, My Brother and My Father's Van Gogh

Monica and Michael de Jong have inherited a painting from their father. The painting, known as F614, has been considered throughout the century as either an authentic Van Gogh or a clever forgery. Are they the owners of a painting worth millions? In the film, they try to answer that question.

Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Andrew Koster

Elise Swerhone

Executive Producer

Andrew Koster

Director

Elise Swerhone

Scriptwriter

Robert Lower

Narrator

Monica de Jong

Production

Riverain Productions Ltd.
250 Cordova St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3N 1A4
Canada
(204) 488-0746
(204) 488-8942
ems@pangea.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Scattering of Seeds IV (A) - The Creation of Canada

A Scattering of Seeds – The Creation of Canada is a series of 52 documentary films exploring the dreams, daring and determination of Canada’s first immigrants. It is a journey into the hopes and triumphs of those who built a nation, interpreted by Canada’s best independent documentary filmmakers.

Betacam SP

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Peter Raymont

Lindalee Tracey

Directors

Various / Divers

Scriptwriters

Various / Divers

Production/International distribution

White Pine Pictures
822 Richmond St. W.
Suite 301
Toronto Ontario
M6J 1C9
Canada
(416) 703-5580
(416) 703-1691
info@whitepinepictures.com
www.whitepinepictures.com

Distribution – Canada

McNabb and Connolly
60 Briarwood Ave.
Mississauga Ontario
L5G 3N6
Canada
1-866-722-1522
1-866-722-1822
mcnabbconnolly@homeroom.ca
www.mcnabbconnolly.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Men of Valour: Heroes of the Victoria Cross

One in 10. That is the estimate of a soldier’s chance of surviving an act of bravery that would be worthy of consideration for the Victoria Cross. Since 1856, only 1,354 individuals have met the criteria, and only 94 Canadians have received the honour. This documentary tells the stories of six Canadians who were awarded the Victoria Cross – including one surviving recipient. Personal reminiscences, photos, news footage, newspaper clippings and full-scale battle re-enactments are used to tell their incredible stories of valour.

Betacam SP

70 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Paul Millar

Executive Producer

Ron Goetz

Director

Chris Triffo

Scriptwriter

Bruce Edwards

Narrator

Steven Arsenych

Production

Partners In Motion
2704 10th Ave.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4T 1E9
Canada
(306) 545-2228
(306) 569-9616
jstecyk@partnersinmotion.com
www.partnersinmotion.com

International distribution

Harmony Entertainment Management Inc.
2704-10th Ave.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4N 3T3
Canada
(306) 545-2228
(306) 569-9616
jstecyk@partnersinmotion.com
www.partnersinmotion.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Metcom

This first-of-its-kind series documents the unique and diverse culture of the versatile Metis people of North America from the beginning of their creation as a distinct race of people. Award-winning Metis host Ken Schaffer takes viewers on a visit to historical and cultural sites, exploring the Metis’ unique language and examining their direct involvement in the evolution and settlement of Canada.

Betacam SP

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer

Ken Schaffer

Directors

Ken Schaffer

Jason Delesoy

Scriptwriter and Host

Ken Schaffer

Production

Metcom Productions
136 Milne St.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4R 5B7
Canada
(306) 543-4906
(306) 543-4906
metcom@sasktel.net

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Minot d'or (Le)

This documentary offers an intimate look at six intellectually handicapped adults. Although diagnosed as only mildly handicapped, the six individuals had been institutionalized for some 30 years. Today, “retired from hospital life,” they live together in a beautiful 100-year-old house on the St. Lawrence River in Lotbinière. The program tells their stories – who they are, how they live, who looks after them and what they hope for now that they have found freedom.

Betacam SP

50 minutes

Colour

Producer

Claude Cartier

Executive Producer

Marcel Simard

Director and Scriptwriter

Isabelle Raynault

Production

Les Productions Virage inc.
6300, av. du Parc
Bureau 605
Montreal Quebec
H2V 4H8
Canada
(514) 276-9556
(514) 276-2262
info@virage.ca
www.virage.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Mirror, Mirror: How's My Hair?

Mirror, Mirror: How’s My Hair? lets the viewers see what their hair, or lack thereof, means to them and to others. They’ll think, they’ll laugh, and they’ll be surprised and entertained. They’ll see themselves. It’s a window on human nature. Your relationship with your hair is intensely human. It’s about vanity and confidence, self-definition and perception, acceptance and rejection. Proof positive of just how much hair is a key to life.

Betacam SP

44 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Daniel Gelfant

Executive Producer

Gordon Henderson

Production/Distribution

90th Parallel Film & Television Productions Ltd.
203 Gerrard St. E.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 2E7
Canada
(416) 364-9090
(416) 364-0580
info@90thparallel.ca
www.90thparallel.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Mission on the Border of the Abyss (The)

Dr. Chris Giannou is an internationally renowned war surgeon who has worked on the frontlines of devastation for the past 25 years. He has risked his life many times, and has seen just about everything vile the world has on offer. This documentary follows Dr. Giannou, now working with the Red Cross in Africa, as he embarks on a mission to Somalia. Deeply philosophical, he searches out the meaning of his life in the world’s most dangerous corners.

Digital Betacam

50 minutes

Colour

Producers

David York

Judy Jackson

Executive Producer

Glen Salsman

Director and Scriptwriter

Judy Jackson

Production

Judy Films Inc.
6 Fir Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M4E 1B5
Canada
(416) 694-5544
(416) 694-3686
judyj@attcanada.ca

Cineflix Productions Inc.
5505, boul. Saint-Laurent
Bureau 3008
Montreal Quebec
H2T 1S6
Canada
(514) 278-3140
(514) 270-3165
info@cineflix.com
www.cineflix.com

Distribution – Canada

Forum 5 inc.
5505 boulevard St-Laurent
Montreal Quebec
H2T 1S6
Canada
(514) 278-3140
(514)270-3165

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Missions secrètes

Combining story-telling, inquiry and adventure, Missions secrètes explores the mysterious world of Canada’s intelligence services. It reveals that the services are a kind of crossroads where political, economic, military and individual issues are intertwined. The program explores eight themes, which serve to uncover the hidden ties between Canada and the rest of the world and offer a different perspective on events which have marked Canadian history over the last 50 years.

Digital Betacam

8 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Sophie Deschênes

Vincent Gabriele

Executive Producer

Vincent Gabriele

Director

Hugues Tremblay

Scriptwriters

Gilles Desjardins

Marc Grégoire

Marie-Josée Cardinal

Production/Distribution

Les Productions Sovimage inc.
1035, av. Laurier Ouest
1^er étage
Outremont Quebec
H2V 2L1
Canada
(514) 277-6123
(514) 277-1139
productions@sovimage.qc.ca
www.sovimage.qc.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Moving Stories II

On the human stress scale, moving is ranked high up, after dying and divorcing – ironic, because a move often follows on the heels of a death or divorce. Yet we move. Often. Moving is unavoidable and maybe even inevitable. Moving Stories captures the human story – with all its imperfections and triumphs – through the blood, sweat and beers of moving.

Betacam SP

6 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producer

Jameel Bharmal

Director

Lisa Gabriele

Narrator

Nadine Falk

Production

Life Size Television
372 Richemond St. W., Suite 209
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1X6
Canada
(416) 341-9926
(416) 341-0173
jamee.lifesize@attcanada.net
www.lifesmovingstories.com

Distribution

Tricon Films
372 Richmond St. W., Suite 209
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1X6
Canada
(416) 341-9926
(416) 341-0173
triconfilms@netcom.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Musicographie II

Each program in this series profiles a Quebec singer, drawing on archival material, in-depth interviews with the artist, and testimonials from a dozen guests who have been part of the artist’s circle over the course of his or her career. The show wouldn’t be complete, of course, without performances of the artist’s songs and music.

Betacam SP

12 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producer

Pierre Marchand

Executive Producer

Johanne Mercier

Directors and Scriptwriters

Nicole Giguère

Jocelyn Cano

Reynaldo DiCesare

Narrators

Paul Beauregard

Violaine Forest

Cast

Renée Martel

Félix Leclerc

Lynda Lemay

Les Sultans

/ Et autres And others

Production/Distribution

Tv Maxplus
355, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest
Montreal Quebec
H3B 1A5
Canada
(514) 284-7587
(514) 284-2803

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

My Left Breast

“With startling honesty and immediacy, Gerry Rogers began filming her ordeal with breast cancer the moment her hair started falling out. You are with her at four in the morning when she expresses her deepest fears and her most intimate feelings; she takes you to her doctor’s appointments and family gatherings… You won’t watch this film, you will experience it… and you will never see the world quite the same way again.” – Terre Nash, Academy Award-winning director, If You Love This Planet

Betacam SP

57 minutes

Colour

Producer

Paul Pope

Director

Gerry Rogers

Production/Distribution – Canada

Pope Productions Ltd.
114 Water St.
St. John's Newfoundland
A1C 1A8
Canada
(709) 722-7673
(709) 738-7285
info@popeproductions.com
www.popeproductions.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Mystères d'ici et d'ailleurs

Our world is full of mysteries and strange phenomena – which science is hard-pressed to explain. Drawing on real-life experiences of the unusual, this series attempts to understand and explain the causes of strange phenomena. Doctors, psychiatrists, ethnologists, theologians and anthropologists offer their opinions on these amazing stories.

Betacam SP

10 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Sylvie Roy

Micheline Loiselle

Lucie Veillet

Executive Producers

Jacques Bonin

Claude Veillet

Directors

Marie-Hélène Grenier

Jean-Claude Marion

Scriptwriters

Jacques Couture

André Poulain

Louise Racicot

Narrator and Host

Jean Marchand

Production

Téléfiction Productions inc.
4446, boul. Saint-Laurent
7^e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
information@telefiction.com
www.telefiction.com

Distribution – Canada

Téléfiction Distribution et Marketing
4446, boul. St-Laurent 7e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
info@telefiction.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Nanook (Ice Bear)

Southern wildlife films present a sanitized message about wild animals and the wildernesses they live in. Baby Beluga … Bambi … creatures to play with, wildlife as entertainment. Inuit see wildlife differently. In Igloolik, like most hunting cultures, baby beluga, bambi and bugs bunny are respectful creatures to hunt, catch and eat. Nanook (Ice Bear) looks at polar bears from an Inuit point of view. No nonsense.

Betacam SP

50 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Zacharias Kunuk

Executive Producers

Zacharias Kunuk

Norman Cohn

Narrator

Abraham Ulayuruluk

Production

Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc.
P.O. Box 223
Igloolik Nunavut
X0A 0L0
Canada
(867) 934-8809
(867) 934-8700
isuma@isuma.ca
www.isuma.ca

Distribution – Canada

Isuma Distribution International
5764, av. Monkland
Bureau 223
Montreal Quebec
H4A 1E9
Canada
(514) 486-0707
(514) 486-9851
cohn@isuma.ca
www.isuma.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Nos amours

The 35-year relationship between the Montréal Expos baseball team and its fans has not always been an easy one. After a brief period at the top of the game, the team went through several difficult years. Nos amours follows the efforts of three die-hard Expos fans – Katie Hynes, Claude Charron and Bill Lee – to keep the team in Montréal. The program follows their journey and questions the relationships that can exist between fans, a team and a city.

Betacam SP

50 minutes

Colour

Producers

Robbie Hart

Luc Côté

Director, Scriptwriter and Narrator

Robbie Hart

Production

Productions Adobe
5283, avenue du Parc Bureau 5
Montreal Quebec
H2V 4G9
Canada
(514) 272-3113
(514) 272-3301
courrier@adobeproductions.com
www.adobeproductions.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts

In Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts, director John Houston continues his exploration of Inuit culture, begun with his acclaimed film Songs of Stone. In this instalment, Houston examines an ancient Inuit narrative, gradually revealing its relevance. Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts tells us as much about our culture and our chances of survival, as it does about the culture of its creators.

Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Peter d'Entremont

Executive Producer

Peter d'Entremont

Director, Scriptwriter and Narrator

John Houston

Cast

Benedikte "Bendo" Schmidt

Erninguaq Poulsen

Pakak Innukshuk

Nuka Lyberth

Production/Distribution

Triad Film Productions Ltd.
1657 Barrington St. Suite 433
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2A1
Canada
(902) 422-7174
(902) 422-8945
triadfilms@sprint.ca
www.triadfilms.ns.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Odyssée du Père Sablon (L')

This documentary looks at the exceptional legacy of Father Marcel de la Sablonnière, who introduced generations of young Quebecers to the benefits of sports. He spent his life travelling across Quebec and around the world, trying to convince as many people as he could that sports could play an extraordinary role in the development of young people. He instilled a willingness and determination to succeed in hundreds of youths from economically deprived backgrounds.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Sylvie Roy

Jacques Bonin

Claude Veillet

Micheline Loiselle

Director and Scriptwriter

Chantale Boileau

Production

Téléfiction Productions inc.
4446, boul. Saint-Laurent
7^e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
information@telefiction.com
www.telefiction.com

Distribution – Canada

Téléfiction Distribution et Marketing inc.
4446, boul. Saint-Laurent
7^e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
information@telefiction.com
www.telefiction.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Histoire maritime

Canada’s history has been shaped by the flow of water. Odysseys: Canada’s Maritime History offers a fresh look at the development of Canada through the stories of those who navigated its oceans and waterways from coast to coast.

Betacam SP

minutes

Colour, black and white

Executive Producers

André Barro

Jacquelin Bouchard

Line Producer

Nicole Faucher

Directors

Philippe Cinq-Mars

Anne Dussault

Daniel Michaud

Scriptwriters

Chantal Deschênes

Sylvie-Anne Martel

Narrator

Bernard Fortin

Production

Productions Pixcom inc.
1720, rue du Canal
Montreal Quebec
H3K 3E6
Canada
(514) 931-1188
(514) 931-2126
info@pixcom.com
www.pixcom.com

Distribution

Pixcom International inc.
1720, rue du Canal
Montreal Quebec
H3K 3E6
Canada
(514) 931-1188
(514) 931-2126
info@pixcom.com
www.pixcom.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Oppression II

This examination of mental illness combines personal testimony with scientific inquiry. We meet those afflicted by this oppressive illness, and learn about the scientific knowledge that has been gained through research on the different manifestations of the illness. The series offers a historical perspective on the study of mental illness and highlights some of the prevailing and long-debated opinions on the subject, using an approach that assumes that the problems associated with mental illness are both widespread and permanent.

Betacam SP

4 x 52 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer

Laurier Bonin

Directors

Lise Éthier

Éliette Aubin

Lucie Lachapelle

Paula McKeown

Scriptwriters

Éliette Aubin

Nicole Gravel

Lucie Lachapelle

Paula McKeown

Narrator

Frédéric Loiselle

Production

Icotop inc.
6700, av. du Parc
Bureau 300
Montreal Quebec
H2V 4H9
Canada
(514) 495-9067
(514) 495-4454
lorico@icotop.com

Distribution

Groupe Multimédia du Canada
261, rue Saint-Sacrement
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 3V2
Canada
(514) 844-3636
(514) 844-4990
mgc@the-mgc.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Orkney Lad (The): The Story of Isabel Gunn

The story of Isabel Gunn – Orkney lass, Hudson’s Bay Company labourer and “debauched” cross-dresser – has been a dusty footnote in Canada’s fur trade history. In 1807, “John Fubbister” forever changed our image of Canada as a place explored by adventurous European men braving an unforgiving wilderness when, according to witnesses, he “lay down on the hearth and proceeded to give birth to a son.” Fubbister was Isabel Gunn, a poor lass with a vagrant heart who risked everything when she swapped her skirts for trousers and sailed west to Hudson Bay.

Betacam SP

45 minutes

Colour

Producer

Penny Wheelwright

Executive Producer

Lael McCall

Director

Anne Wheeler

Scriptwriters

Penny Wheelwright

Julie Wheelwright

Cast

Michelle Hart

Scott Bellis

Michael Hogan

Matt Walker

Production

Wheelwright Ink Ltd.
99 Browning Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M4K 1W2
Canada
(416) 925-3766
(416) 925-3116
starryn@direct.ca

International distribution

Sextant International
175 Bloor St. W., Suite 610, North Tower
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3R8
Canada
(416) 928-2786

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Out from Underground

Poland endured the worst of the Second World War: invasion, occupation and genocide. Out From Underground is the story of Zygmund Sikora, whose personal life touched every aspect of the terror. His is a rare story, an intensive look from inside at the dedication and bravery of the secret resistance movement in rural Poland.

Betacam SP

45 minutes

Colour

Producer

Murray MacDonald

Executive Producer

Gerald B. Sperling

Director

Guo Fangfang

Scriptwriter

Robert McTavish

Host

Robert McTavish

Narrator

Eva Petryshyn

Production

Four Square Productions
1808 Smith St.
Suite 220
Regina Alberta
S4P 2N4
Canada
(306) 525-9888
(306) 525-8588
4square.ca@sk.sympatico.ca
www.4square.ca

Coproduction Poland

Warmia-Mazury Film
ul.Pilsudskiego 7/9

10-575
Poland
011-48-89-523-2310
011-48-89-523-2610

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Par pistes et rivières

This program looks at some of the legacies white settlers in North America have inherited from Native peoples. These include birch-bark canoes, snow-shoes, animal traps, forest pathfinding skills and ice-fishing techniques – as well as the rituals, at once religious and medicinal, which were based on the Natives’ interpretation of dreams and their relationship with cosmic forces.

Digital Betacam

55 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer and Director

Arthur Lamothe

Line Producers

Marcel Fraser

Catherine Viau

Scriptwriters

Arthur Lamothe

Florent Vollant

Narrator

Florent Vollant

Production

Productions Premières Nations
2370 A, rue de Châteauguay
Montreal Quebec
H3K 1K8
Canada
(514) 935-9075
(514) 935-9077

Via le monde
1222, rue Mackay
Suite 301
Montreal Quebec
H2G 2H4
Canada
(514) 285-1658
(514) 285-1970
info@vialemonde.qc.ca
www.vialemonde.com

Distribution

Via le monde
1222, rue Mackay
Suite 301
Montreal Quebec
H2G 2H4
Canada
(514) 285-1658
(514) 285-1970
info@vialemonde.qc.ca
www.vialemonde.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Paradise in Peril

The rich soil of Prince Edward Island supports a thriving potato industry. But it’s also fertile ground for a growing debate about pesticide runoff. As Islanders begin to question the industry’s real impact on the province, the filmmakers spend a year exploring two competing visions for the present and future of P.E.I. through the eyes of a farmer and an environmentalist who both face challenge and disappointment.

Betacam SP

48 minutes

Colour

Producers

Bill Kendrick

Michael R. Leblanc

Monique Leblanc

Director

Bill Kendrick

Scriptwriters

Bill Kendrick

Michael R. Leblanc

Narrator

Bill Kendrick

Production

CinImage Films
8 Belleview Ave.
Moncton New Brunswick
E1C 4S8
Canada
(506) 386-1616
(506) 855-7025
cinimage@nb.sympatico.ca

Island Images
68 Milton Ave.
Summerside Prince Edward Island
C1N 1T9
Canada
(902) 888-3620
(902) 888-3102
islandimages@islandtelecom.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Finding Our Talk

According to Statistics Canada, only three of the 50 most prominent Aboriginal languages are expected to survive through this century. These are tough statistics, but it doesn’t have to be that way. People all across Canada are fighting to beat the odds. It’s a remarkable story. This series celebrates the success of people and organizations who are reclaiming their language – and along with it their culture, their stories and their very existence as a people.

Betacam SP

13 x 25 minutes

Colour

Producers

Paul M. Rickard

George Hargrave

Janice Benthin

Directors and Scriptwriters

Paul M. Rickard

Nick Huard

Erica Pomerance

Jocelyne Clarke

Paul Chaput

Derek Vertongen

Liza Uqaituk

Rene Sioui Labelle

Magnus Isacsson

Narrators and Hosts

Paul Chaput

Ernie Webb

Wahiakeron Gilbert

Production/Distribution

Mushkeg Media
4893 St. Laurent Blvd.
Montreal Quebec
H2T 1R6
Canada
(514) 279-3507
(514) 279-7493
mushkeg@videotron.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Passage

France is a dancer – and a quadriplegic. Only one week before she was to start training as a professional dancer, she lost the use of her arms and legs in an accident. Kudlip is an internationally renowned dancer and choreographer. In the studio where they work together everyday, France and Kudlip reinvent life through the language of dance. Some dreams can never die: this program looks at how some obstacles can be permanently overcome.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Daniel Shannon

Scriptwriter

Isabelle Depelteau

Production/Distribution

Shanda TV
3691, rue St-Dominique
Montreal Quebec
H2X 2X8
Canada
(514) 843-8762
(514) 843-8706
info@shanda.ca
www.shanda.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

People's Poet: Alden Nowlan

Alden Nowlan quit school in the middle of grade five and eventually became one of Canada’s greatest poets. No Canadian poet has dealt with broader themes: from poverty to faith, from love and marriage to nature, from introspection to poetry itself. The poems are narrated over footage of the inspiring setting in which Nowlan worked as well as stills by Canadian artist R. E. Balch, whose works Nowlan chose to illustrate some of his books.

Betacam SP

48 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Richard Nielsen

Jon Pedersen

Executive Producer

Richard Nielsen

Director

Marta Hastings

Narrator

Richard Nielsen

Cast

Walter Learning

Nicole Picot

Production

Norflicks Productions Ltd.
124 Dupont St.
Toronto Ontario
M5R 1V2
Canada
(416) 351-7558
(416) 351-8165
mail@norflicks.com
www.norflicks.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Perfect husband (The): The Life and Times of Tim Horton

The name “Tim Horton” dots the Canadian landscape. But few know the tragic and tangled story behind the hockey icon who founded one of Canada’s most successful donut chains. What began as a fairy tale got lost in bad luck and bad mistakes. Today, 27 years after Tim’s sudden death, none of the wealth generated by the chain belongs to his family. In this biography, Tim’s widow, Lori – filmed only weeks before her death – speaks candidly and emotionally about her life with and without Tim.

Digital Betacam

45 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Lynn Booth

Laurie Long

Director and Scriptwriter

Daniel Gelfant

Narrator

Dion Luther

Production

Make Believe Media Inc.
145 Keefer Street
Suite 201
Vancouver British Columbia
V6A 1X3
Canada
(604) 874-9498
(604) 874-9484
trish@makebelievemedia.com
www.makebelievemedia.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Pioneer Quest: A Year in the Real West

Pioneer Quest documents the lives of four individuals living exactly as pioneers did in the Canadian West of the 1870s. The series was recorded over the course of one year with a professional crew as well as hand-held cameras operated by the pioneers themselves. Not a re-enactment or a dramatization – Pioneer Quest is the real thing.

Betacam SP

8 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Jamie Brown

Michael Scott

Executive Producer

Jamie Brown

Director and Scriptwriter

Andy Blicq

Narrator

Tom Anniko

Cast

Tim Treadway

Deanna Treadway

Frank Logie

Alana Logie

Production

Credo Entertainment Corporation
120 Sherbrook St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3C 2B4
Canada

Distribution – Canada

Credo Releasing
120 Sherbrook St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3C 2B4
Canada
(204) 989-8188
(204) 989-8187
cri@credocorp.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Fire Station

This prime-time docusoap follows the lives of a team of firefighters – heroic men and women who risk their lives in order to serve the public. From the adrenaline rush of fighting a fire to the tension of waiting for the next call to the ups and downs of their personal relationships, we eat, sleep and live with the characters, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Digital Betacam

13 x 30 minutes

Colour

Executive producers and producers

Anne Pick

Ina Fichman

Directors

Kate Gillen

Justine Pimlott

Ali Kazimi

Barry Greenwald

Production

Productions La Fête inc.
387, rue Saint-Paul Ouest
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 2A7
Canada
(514) 848-0417
(514) 848-0064
info@lafete.com
www.lafete.com

Wombat Productions Inc.
(Real To Reel Productions Inc.)
3023 Dundas St. W.
Toronto Ontario
M6P 1Z4
Canada
(416) 763-0001
(416) 763-1496
info@r2r.ca
www.r2r.ca

Distribution

Delphis Films
5455, av. de Gaspé
Bureau 803
Montreal Quebec
H2T 3B3
Canada
(514) 843-3355
(514) 843-9574
distribution@delphisfilms.com
www.delphisfilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Poverty, Chastity, Obedience

Poverty, Chastity, Obedience documents the spiritual and emotional journey of a woman leaving behind career, family and modern living to join ranks with the group that has been named “the new counterculture” – Roman Catholic nuns. Through a mix of interviews, verité footage and video diaries, the film uncovers the rewards, conflicts and even humour within “the vowed life” today.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Andrea Nemtin

Cornelia Principe

Director

Cornelia Principe

Production

PCO Films
585 Bloor St. W.
Toronto Ontario
M6G 1K5
Canada
(416) 531-0100
(416) 531-3500
ptv@istar.ca

Distribution – Canada

National Film Board of Canada
3155, ch. de la Côte-de-Liesse
Saint-Laurent Quebec
H4N 2N4
Canada
(514) 283-9000
(514) 283-5487

www.nfb.ca

International distribution

PTV Releasing Inc.
585 Markham St
2nd Floor
Toronto Ontario
M6G 2L7
Canada
(416) 531-0100
(416) 531-3500
info@ptvproductions.ca
www.ptvproductions.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Powwow Trail

One of the most recognizable expressions of Native culture is the powwow. Every weekend during the summer months, thousands of Native people flock to powwow arbours across North America to take part in the music, song and dance of their ancestors. Told through the eyes of Native elders, Powwow Trail is a rich cultural journey amidst colourful pageantry.

High Definition
Digital Betacam

13 x 48 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Jeremy Torrie

Narrator

Jules Desjarlais

Production

I.C.E. Productions Ltd.
297 Smith St., Suite 200
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3C 1L1
Canada
(204) 953-2600
(204) 953-2610
jeremy@escape.ca
www.highdefintionpictures.com

Distribution

VTape
401 Richmond St. W.,
Suite 452
Toronto Ontario
M5V 3A8
Canada
(416) 351-1317
(416) 351-1509
info@vtape.org
www.vtape.org

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Printemps (Le)

The first in a series of four documentaries on the seasons, Le Printemps looks at spring, the season of renewal, from a variety of angles: social, meteorological, mythical and historical. Filmed in diverse natural locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia, the program shows how different cultures have traditionally welcomed spring, symbol of rebirth.

Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour

Producers

Bernar Hébert

Michel Ouellette

Director

Bernar Hébert

Scriptwriters

Bernar Hébert

Isabelle Willems

Narrator

Violette Chauveau

Production

Ciné Qua Non Films International inc.
8500, rue Saint-Hubert
Montreal Quebec
H2P 1Z7
Canada
(514) 271-4515
(514) 271-4005
production@cqni.ca

Distribution

Antenna inc.
8500, rue Saint-Hubert
Montreal Quebec
H2P 1Z7
Canada
(514) 271-4515
(514) 271-4005
production@cqni.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Profils

Their lives have taken extraordinary paths. They have a decidedly original, often revolutionary, way of seeing, speaking and taking action. They are successful, and their lives are one big adventure. They are 12 visionary individuals, and their stories have been told by three francophone producers from different parts of Canada. From their first moment onscreen it is obvious that these remarkable people are prepared to ruffle the feathers of conventional wisdom, and that they are fearless in their pursuit of what they feel passionate about.

Betacam SP

12 x 28 minutes

Colour

Executive Producers

François Savoie

Louis Paquin

Danièle Caloz

Directors and Scriptwriters

Dominique Cardona

Isabelle Barsive

Alexandre Oktan

Carol Ann Pilon

Laurence Véron

Paul Arsenault

Maurice Aubin

Pascal Boutroy

Suzette Lagacé

Lyne Falardeau

Cast

Clarissa Desjardins

Fernand Gilbert

Édith Champagne

Production

Médiatique
11 Ontario St.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 4L7
Canada
(416) 367-8464
(416) 367-8466
caloz@globalserve.net

Productions Rivard inc.
193 Dumoulin St.
Suite 201
Winnipeg Manitoba
R2H 0E4
Canada
(204) 233-0694
(204) 231-4010
rivard@productionsrivard.com
www.productionsrivard.com

Connection Productions
1111, rue Main
Bureau 306
Moncton New Brunswick
E1C 1H3
Canada
(506) 382-3984
(506) 382-3980
info@cptv.ca
www.cptv.ca

Distribution

Patrimoine Canada Marketing
193 Dumoulin St. Suite 201
Winnipeg Manitoba
R2H 0E4
Canada
(204) 233-0694
(204) 231-4010
rivard@productionsrivard.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Quelques secondes... pour la vie !

Emergency-room doctors, trauma specialists, ambulance technicians – who are these men and women who fight to save our lives? Every day, they are called upon to intervene rapidly, make quick decisions and do everything in their power to save the lives of complete strangers. Their lives are filled with moments where the human factor can mean the difference between life and death.

DV Cam

26 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Jocelyne Allard

Pierre-Paul Larivière

Executive Producer

Pierre Blais

Content Producer

Jean Tourangeau

Directors

Pierre Blais

Pierre Côté

Production

Trinôme inc.
1157, rue Sainte-Catherine Est

H2L 2G8
Canada
(514) 527-9070
(514) 597-1571
courrier@trinome.com
www.trinome.com

Distribution – Canada

Trinôme-Inter inc.
1157, Sainte-Catherine Est
Montreal Quebec
H2L 2G8
Canada
(514) 527-9070
(514) 597-1571
distribution@trinome.com
www.trinome.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

René Lecavalier : annonceur, chanteur, hockeyeur, commentateur...

René Lecavalier. The name alone evokes play-by-play coverage of hockey games on television. But Lecavalier was more than a sports announcer. A highly cultivated man with wide-ranging interests, he started his career at Radio-Canada by working in cultural and comedy programs. Although he was tempted by the artistic life, his career ultimately gravitated toward sports – the result of chance work assignments as well as his own considerable athletic skills.

Betacam SP

46 minutes

Colour

Executive Producers

Serge Arsenault

Jean-Paul Arsenault

Michel Chamberland

Director and Scriptwriter

François Huot

Narrator

François Gariépy

Production/Distribution

Serdy Video Inc.
992, rue Joliette
Longueuil Quebec
J4K 4V9
Canada
(514) 674-5145
(514) 674-5334
sdussault@serdyvideo.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Reservation

Reservation is a unique cinema-verité series about a contemporary First Nation reserve. Shot over a year in the life of the Shuswap at Alkali Lake, British Columbia, the series unflinchingly looks at the major themes of Aboriginal existence by following the daily life of 15 individuals over the year, providing a window on a reality that non-Native people never get to see. It is disturbing, provocative and surprisingly uplifting, celebrating the triumph of a people over endless government bureaucracy.

Digital Betacam

5 x 52 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

David Cherniack

Production

David Cherniack Productions Ltd.
1 Woodland Hts.
Toronto Ontario
M6S 2W3
Canada
(416) 766-9244
(416) 766-8474
davidC@AllinOneFilms.com
www.AllinOneFilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Return of the Peregrine

Return of the Peregrine celebrates and pays tribute to the magnificent peregrine falcon. It also pays homage to those individuals – such as falconers and biologists – who worked closely with the falcons, helping them make an extraordinary comeback from the brink of extinction.

Betacam SP

48 minutes

Colour

Producer

Ava Karvonen

Director

Ray Harper

Scriptwriter

Chris Fisher

Production

Reel Girls Media Inc.
9860A 33rd Ave.
2nd Floor
Edmonton Alberta
T6N 1C6
Canada
(780) 488-0440
(780) 452-4980
info@reelgirlsmedia.com
www.reelgirlsmedia.com

Distribution

Minds Eye International
480 Henderson Dr.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4N 6E3
Canada
(306) 781-7353
(306) 359-3466
alesiuk@mindseyeinternational.com
www.mindseyeinternational.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Right to Jam? (The)

“Culture jammers” subversively use commercial media power against itself. Armed with printing presses, art supplies and humour, they ambush corporate media. “Liberated” billboards, media hoaxes and re-routed Web sites are all guerrilla tactics in the culture jamming revolution. The Right to Jam? asks… Is culture jamming civil disobedience? senseless vandalism? the only form of self-defence left?

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour

Producers

Jill Sharpe

Lynn Booth

Director and Scriptwriter

Jill Sharpe

Production/Distribution – Canada

Right to Jam Productions
380 West 1st Ave., Suite 450
Vancouver British Columbia
V5Y 3T7
Canada
(604) 874-9498
(604) 728-5086
jam-tart@look.ca

International distribution

Film Transit International Inc.
252, boul. Gouin Est
Montreal Quebec
H3L 1A8
Canada
(514) 844-3358
(514) 844-7298
info@filmstransit.com
www.filmstransit.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Road Songs: A portrait of Robbie Robertson

This documentary looks at the life and music of Canadian music legend Robbie Robertson, from his early days in Toronto, to his years with The Band, to his current solo career. Using footage from his current writing/recording sessions, the program also offers an insight into the direction of his musical future. Paying tribute to Robertson’s international stature, the documentary highlights Robertson’s exceptional contributions to the Canadian musical landscape, both domestically and throughout the world.

Digital Betacam

42 minutes

Colour

Producer

Marc Betsworth

Director

Bruce McDonald

Scriptwriters

Bruce McDonald

Rob Bowman

Narrator

Rob Bowman

Cast

Robbie Robertson

Rob Bowman

Production

Crazy River Prods./Captive Entertainment
18 Gloucester Lane, 3rd Floor
Toronto Ontario
M4Y 1L5
Canada
(416) 324-8888
(416) 929-0028
captive@passport.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Roussil ou la curieux destin d'un anarchiste impénitent

Robert Roussil was a legendary figure on the Quebec art scene. In 1949, he caused a scandal with his sculpture La Famille. In 1956, after virulently condemning what he saw as the ossified nature of Quebec society, he exiled himself to France. Today, aged 76, he continues to live in Tourettes-sur-Loup, his refuge from the world, more alone and misunderstood than ever. This documentary uncovers the man behind the artist and attempts to shed light on the “mystery” of Robert Roussil.

Betacam SP

50 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer and Director

Werner Volkmer

Scriptwriters

Werner Volkmer

Ariane Émond

Production

Aquilon Film
C.P. Succursale Victoria
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 2V8
Canada
(514) 985-2597
(514) 982-6894
aquilon@aei.ca

Distribution

Cinéma Libre inc.
460, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Bureau 500
Montreal Quebec
H3B 1A7
Canada
(514) 861-9030
(514) 861-3634
infocine@cinemalibre.com
www.cinemalibre.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Saturday Night with Michael Smith

Saturday Night With Michael Smith examines what it takes to be a world-class chef by looking at the life of Michael Smith. This documentary shows the predictable and sometimes painstaking labour that goes into running a restaurant and captures those unanticipated moments when quick thinking and fast fingers are essential ingredients.

Digital Betacam

60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Johanna Eliot

Gretha Rose

Director

Michael MacDonald

Host

Michael Smith

Production

Ocean Entertainment Limited
1657 Barrington St.
Suite 404
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 2A1
Canada
(902) 423-9056
(902) 423-9058
ocean@ocean.ca
www.ocean.ca

Cellar Door Productions
126 Richmond Street
Suite 6
Charlottetown Prince Edward Island
C1A 4K9
Canada
(902) 628-3880
(902) 628-2088
productions@cellardoor.tv
www.cellardoor.tv

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Sea Hunters (The)

Based on Clive Cussler’s best-selling book of the same name, The Sea Hunters is an underwater documentary series that investigates famous shipwrecks around the world. The series deals with the search, documentation and historic backgrounds of shipwrecks found in the Earth’s oceans, and promotes the importance of protecting these relics of our maritime past. The episodes comprise a fascinating mix of compelling stories, history, science, mystery and adventure.

Betacam SP

6 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers

John Davis

John Wesley Chisolm

Executive Producer

John Davis

Directors

John Davis

Bill Jardine

Scriptwriters

John Davis

John Wesley Chisolm

James Delgado

Gary Vermeir

Hosts

James Delgado

Clive Cussler

Cast

Mike Fletcher

John Davis

James Delgado

Clive Cussler

Production

Ocean Search Productions Ltd.
6065 Cunard St.
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3K 1E6
Canada
(902) 423-7906
(902) 423-6226
econova@ns.sympatico.ca

Distribution – Canada

Dex Distribution
1583 Hollis St.,
2nd Floor
Halifax Nova Scotia
B3J 1V4
Canada
(902) 421-1326, ext. 238
(902) 423-0484
clarence@dexdistribution.com
www.topsailentertainment.com

International distribution

HIT Entertainment
Maple House, 5th Floor 141-150 Tottenham Court Rd.
London

England
207-554-2500
207-388-9321

www.hitentertainment.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Grande mouvée (La)

Each year, millions of harp seals mate on the ice floes that drift in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. And each year, a war begins anew: a war of image and ideology which pits hunters against environmentalists, a war in which the real victims are a quarter of a million young seals. Seals, On the Rocks! examines this annual phenomenon and forces viewers to confront their own social and moral beliefs.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour

Producer

Jean Lemire

Executive Producer

Roger Frappier

Director

Alain Belhumeur

Scriptwriters

Pierre Béland

Jean Lemire

Narrator and Host

Pierre Béland

Cast

Denis Eloquin

Willie Lebel

Léo Leblanc

Pol Chantraine

Production

Max Films inc./Max Films Télévision inc.
1751 Richardson
Bureau 2.102
Montreal Quebec
H3K 1G6
Canada
(514) 282-8444
(514) 282-9222
info@maxfilms.ca
www.maxfilms.ca

Distribution

Groupe Multimédia du Canada
261, rue Saint-Sacrement
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 3V2
Canada
(514) 844-3636
(514) 844-4990
mgc@the-mgc.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Seapower to Superpower

Four hundred years of global dominance by English-speaking nations is founded upon control of the “great commons” of the sea – and now of space. Seapower to Superpower traces, century by century, the role power has played, both at sea and in space, in the rise of the only two superpowers the world has ever known – Britain and the United States.

Digital Betacam

5 x 48 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Richard Nielsen

Executive Producer

Robert Linnell

Director

James Hyslop

Scriptwriters

Robert Linnell

Richard Nielsen

Production/Distribution – Canada

Seapower Productions
260 Richmond St. W., Suite 607
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1W5
Canada
(416) 351-7558
(416) 205-1258

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Searching for Pinochet

Searching for Pinochet is the story of a Chilean-Canadian woman who travels back to Chile to search for the meaning of Augusto Pinochet’s tumultuous years of military rule and its effect on her family, her country and, ultimately, herself. On an intimate and personal level, Searching for Pinochet seeks closure to a turbulent past and attempts to understand the future of Chile.

Betacam SP

48 minutes

Colour

Producers, Directors and Scriptwriters

Carmen Henriquez

Denis Paquette

Narrator

Carmen Henriquez

Production/Distribution

Real World Films
320 East 5th Ave.
Vancouver British Columbia
V5T 1H4
Canada
(604) 709-0970
(604) 709-0971
production@realworldmedia.tv
www.realworldmedia.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Secret War: The Odyssey of the Suffield Volunteers

During the Second World War, the Canadian government experimented on its own soldiers at a remote base in the Alberta prairies. Had these tests been done on enemy soldiers, they would have been labelled war crimes. Secret War is the story of four Canadian soldiers – four out of more than two thousand – who between 1941 and 1945 volunteered to be human guinea pigs, testing deadly mustard gas at Suffield, Alberta.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer and Scriptwriter

Patrick Corbett

Executive Producer

Kirk Shaw

Director

Chick Snipper

Production

Insight Film & Video Productions Ltd.
112 West 6th Ave.
Vancouver British Columbia
V5Y 1K6
Canada
(604) 623-3369 ext. 118
(604) 623-3448
insight@insightfilm.com
www.insightfilm.com

Distribution

Canamedia Productions Ltd.
381 Richmond St. East Suite #200
Toronto Ontario
M5A 1P6
Canada
(416) 483-7446
(416) 483-7529
canamed@canamedia.com
www.canamedia.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Shrinkage

Shrinkage is a dangerously funny exploration of the tragic yet cathartic world of stand-up comedy, through the eyes of mother and aspiring comic Sherry Shaw-Froggatt. Diagnosed with manic depression, Sherry takes her pain on stage in hopes of performing stand-up at the world-renowned Just for Laughs Festival. From laughter clubs and shrinks to rants with stand-up comics like Eric Idle and Mike MacDonald, Sherry’s eclectic journey to heal herself through humour takes viewers on an unpredictable, emotional ride.

Digital Betacam

46 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Bobbi Jo Krals

Executive Producers

Ina Fichman

Robbie Hart

Scriptwriters

Bobbi Jo Krals

Sherry Shaw-Froggatt

Production/Distribution – Canada

Esperanto Productions
4299 Esplanade St., Suite 5
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 2A7
Canada
(514) 285-1109
(514) 285-5581
esperanto@point-net.com

International distribution

Delphis Films
5455, av. de Gaspé
Bureau 803
Montreal Quebec
H2T 3B3
Canada
(514) 843-3355
(514) 843-9574
distribution@delphisfilms.com
www.delphisfilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Silken Laumann: Flying on Water

Silken Laumann came to world attention when she overcame a devastating, career-threatening injury to win – a mere three months later – a bronze medal in rowing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Flying on Water tells her story through interviews with friends and family, and intimate sequences depicting her personal and professional life.

Betacam SP

44 minutes

Colour

Producers

Sharon McNamara

Rob Bromley

Executive Producer

Hugh Beard

Director

John Ritchie

Scriptwriter

Andrew Gardner

Narrator

Alec Willows

Production/Distribution – Canada

Force Four Entertainment
1152 Mainland St., Suite 310
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B 4X2
Canada
(604) 669-4424
(604) 669-4535
tv@forcefour.com
www.forcefour.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Silver Lining - The Brian Orser Story

Silver Lining is a provocative documentary about Canadian Olympic silver medallist and former World Figure Skating Champion Brian Orser. This remarkably candid biography sweeps viewers into Orser’s personal world and reveals the triumphs and tragedies that have tested the athlete since he turned professional in 1988.

Digital Betacam

43 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Moyra Rodger

Scriptwriter

Mark Leiren-Young

Narrator

Cathy Weseluck

Cast

Brian Orser

Production

Out To See Productions / Orser Inc.
338 West 8th Ave., Suite 208
Vancouver British Columbia
V6J 3R8
Canada
(604) 879-7770
(604) 879-7733
ots-ent@universe.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Sing! Healing Community Celebration

This is the story of three Canadian women who are reviving a musical legacy which so many of us have almost lost: the simple act of singing. By doing so, they are breathing new life, creativity and health into their communities, their culture, and the world at large. Sing! is about three women who are co-conspiring to challenge our current artistic and cultural assumptions. Through the lessons they’ve learned by regaining their courage to sing, they’re now helping people of all ages rediscover the creativity and the power of every voice.

Betacam SP

49 minutes

Colour

Producers

Shivon Robinsong

Bill Weaver

Director and Scriptwriter

Bill Weaver

Cast

Gina Sala

Laurel Murphy

Shivon Robinsong

Ann Mortifee

Rhiannon

Production

Across Borders Media
1316 Point St.
Victoria British Columbia
V8S 1A5
Canada
(250) 386-3182
(250) 386-3183
details@acrossborders.com
www.acrossborders.com

Distribution – Canada

McNabb and Connolly
60 Briarwood Ave.
Mississauga Ontario
L5G 3N6
Canada
1-866-722-1522
1-866-722-1822
mcnabbconnolly@homeroom.ca
www.mcnabbconnolly.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Sit Down, Shut Up, Don Messer's On!...

Sit Down, Shut Up, Don Messer’s On!… examines the rise and betrayal of an unlikely Canadian icon. Through television archives, radio recordings, film clips, music and the people who knew him, we meet Don Messer, the unassuming, old-time virtuoso fiddler who became a household name in a simpler time.

Betacam SP

42 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Andrew Gregg

Executive Producer

Gordon Henderson

Narrator

Diane D'Aquila

Production/Distribution

90th Parallel Film & Television Productions Ltd.
203 Gerrard St. E.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 2E7
Canada
(416) 364-9090
(416) 364-0580
info@90thparallel.ca
www.90thparallel.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Skin Deep II

Skin Deep explores both the personal and social reasons people choose to undergo cosmetic surgery. Procedures such as breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, liposuction and facelifts are broken down into the step-by-step processes experienced by each of the series’ subjects: from going “under the knife” to coming to terms with a new look.

Digital Betacam

12 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producer

Amos Adetuyi

Executive Producer

Amos Adetuyi

Director

Alphons Adetuyi

Production

Inner City Films Inc.
260 Spadina Avenue
Suite 400
Toronto Ontario
M5T 2E4
Canada
(416) 368-3339
(416) 368-5234
info@innercityfilms.ca
www.innercityfilms.ca

Distribution

Alliance Atlantis Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Spirit World: The Story of the Mi'kmaq

Spirit World tells the story of the Mi’kmaq First Nation from 3000 years ago to the present. It celebrates the Mi’Kmaqs’ genius, creativity, humanity, spirituality and tenacity, which helped them survive overwhelming attacks on their culture and on their very existence, first by the colonial powers and then by the Canadian government. The series ends with a message of hope as it describes the Mi’kmaq cultural renaissance that is now well underway.

Betacam SP

3 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Brian Pollard

Executive Producer

Joe John Sark

Scriptwriters

Brian Pollard

Joe John Sark

Production

Mi'kmaq Pictures
P.O. Box 2033
Charlottetown Prince Edward Island
C1A 7N7
Canada
(902) 566-4895
(902) 566-4891
b.pollard@pei.sympatico.ca

Distribution – Canada

McNabb and Connolly
60 Briarwood Ave.
Mississauga Ontario
L5G 3N6
Canada
1-866-722-1522
1-866-722-1822
mcnabbconnolly@homeroom.ca
www.mcnabbconnolly.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Stranger in Our Home (A)

A Stranger in Our Home tells the disturbing tales of two teenage victims of Internet predators. Daniel explored sexuality with another “13-year-old online friend” – actually a 59-year-old pedophile who coerced him into a cross-border meeting. Stephanie waited in a motel parking lot for a real-life encounter with her Internet boyfriend – a 43-year-old married man with three children of his own. The Internet is a window to the world, but through that window strangers slip silently into our homes.

Betacam SP

minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Melanie Wood

Scriptwriter

Helen Slinger

Narrator

Jim Byrnes

Production

Stranger Productions Inc.
3638 West 6th Ave.
Vancouver British Columbia
V6R 1T7
Canada
(604) 738-3872
(604) 738-3872
mwood@telus.net

Distribution

Films Transit International (Jan Rofekamp)
402 Notre-Dame St. E., Suite 100
Montreal Quebec
H2Y 1C8
Canada
(514) 844-3358
(514) 844-7298
info@filmstransit.com
www.filmstransit.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Studio: The Life and Times of Alex Colville

Studio: The Life & Times of Alex Colville was filmed as the artist entered his 80th year. The film explores Colville’s singular development as a painter who set himself apart to become a unique talent and in turn defined Canadian art for a generation. It also looks at his time at war and examines how the conflict assaulted his sensibilities so much that it never truly left him.

Betacam SP

42 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Andrew Gregg

Executive Producer

Gordon Henderson

Narrator

Lally Cadeau

Production/Distribution

90th Parallel Film & Television Productions Ltd.
203 Gerrard St. E.
Toronto Ontario
M5A 2E7
Canada
(416) 364-9090
(416) 364-0580
info@90thparallel.ca
www.90thparallel.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Summer of '48 (The)

“The Summer of ’48 is a universal story about two men – a father and his son. My father and me. It is also a tale of two abandonments – his and mine – and our search for reconciliation told through my father’s journey to find the boys he played baseball with in 1948, a journey I document on a digital camera. What we both discover is not what we expect.” – Dugald Maudsley

Digital Betacam

46 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director, Scriptwriter and Narrator

Dugald Maudsley

Production

Infield Fly Productions
62 Wellesley St. W., Suite 1501
Toronto Ontario
M5S 2X3
Canada
(416) 972-0998
(416) 972-0998
maudmain@aol.com

Distribution – Canada

Marlin Motion Pictures
211 Watline Ave.
Mississauga Ontario
L4Z 1P3
Canada
(905) 890-1500
(905) 890-6550
jtaylor@istar.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Sur les rives du Tapajos

Along the banks of the Tapajos River, in a small village deep in the Amazonian rainforest, Quebec and Brazilian scientists are engaged in a unique study on the effects of mercury contamination. The team, which has cultivated an interesting relationship with the local population, is trying to shed light on several current environmental and human issues. Environmental damage, human health, economic survival – how can all these issues be reconciled?

Betacam SP

49 minutes

Colour

Producers

Monique Simard

Marcel Simard

Director

Philippe Lavalette

Scriptwriters

Philippe Lavalette

Monique Simard

Narrators

Violette Chauveau

Guy Nadon

Florence Vallières-Lepage

Production

Les Productions Virage inc.
6300, av. du Parc
Bureau 605
Montreal Quebec
H2V 4H8
Canada
(514) 276-9556
(514) 276-2262
info@virage.ca
www.virage.ca

Distribution – Canada

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

TAMBOURS D'ABITIBI (LES)

In the Algonquin language, “Abitibi” means “waters of the middle.” It refers to the region in Quebec that lies between two watersheds: James Bay and the St. Lawrence River. The Algonquin, who have lived for thousands of years in this vast expanse, acted as guides for the first white trappers and loggers to venture into the area. In this documentary, filmmaker Paolo Quaregna examines the relationship between the 6,000 Algonquins and the 160,000 whites who coexist in this fascinating region.

Digital Betacam

1 x 52 minutes

Colour

Producers

Paul Cadieux

Michel Gauriat

Roberto Buttafaro

Line Producer

Eloïse Forest

Director and Scriptwriter

Paolo Quaregna

Narrator

Luis de Cespedes

Production

Les Productions en commun
3401 St-Antoine St. W.
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6190
(514) 939-2034
cadieux@megafun.ca

Coproduction France and Italy

Beta Productions
41, rue Moyenne
Bourg-En-Bresse
18006
France
2.48.24.42.30
2.48.24.82.37

Harold SRL
Via Montemagno 15

10132
Italy
39.011.819.56.94
39.011.819.56.66

Distribution

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Team (The)

The Team followsthe fortunes of a top Canadian college basketball team as it fights its way to the national championship. The series uses the world of basketball to tell a classic story: the one of human aspiration and achievement in the face of personal and social difficulties. It takes us into the world of young, black males on the cusp of manhood grappling with issues of identity and race.

Digital Betacam

8 x 23 minutes

Colour

Producers

Michael Betcherman

Tom Perlmutter

Kristina McLaughlin

Executive Producers

Michael McMahon

Tom Perlmutter

Directors

Michael Betcherman

Tom Perlmutter

Scriptwriters

Michael Betcherman

Tom Perlmutter

Production

Primitive Entertainment Inc.
585 Bloor St. W.
Suite 300
Toronto Ontario
M6G 1K5
Canada
(416) 531-3087
(416) 531-4961
info@primitive.net
www.primitive.net

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Téléromans PQ

Home-grown television dramas are particularly popular among Quebecers because they reflect Quebec society. This series looks at how major social issues have been treated in some of Quebec’s most successful TV shows. Each program focuses on a specific theme: the classics, entrepreneurship, the family, religion, society, manners and morals, women, youth, love and passion, and realism.

Betacam SP

10 x 60 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer

Jacques W. Lina

Line Producer

Louise Collette

Directors

Roger Fournier

Annie Boudin

Scriptwriters

Marie-Josée Cardinal

Isabelle Poissant

Host

Jean-Pierre Desaulniers

Narrator

Jacques Beaulieu

Production

Orbi-XXI Productions
3629, rue St-Denis
Montreal Quebec
H2X 3L6
Canada
(514) 843-6919
(514) 843-9321
production@orbi-xxi.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Things We Do for Love II (The)

Canadians will often go to extreme lengths to declare their love and affection for one another. The second season of this series explores diverse expressions of love – from a “Sleeping Beauty” wedding and a quirky look at identical twins, to a woman who has taken in over 500 foster children, a minister who impersonates Elvis in his sermons, and a man with AIDS who is broadcasting his life, and ultimately his death, over the Internet.

Betacam SP

13 x 24 minutes

Colour

Producer

Chuck Scott

Executive Producers

Patricia Phillips

Andy Thompson

Directors

Various / Divers

Scriptwriters

Various / Divers

Production

Great North Productions Inc.
3720 - 76th Ave.
Edmonton Alberta
T6B 2N9
Canada
(780) 440-2022
(780) 440-3400

www.greatnorth.ab.ca

Distribution

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.,
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Through Thick and Thin

Two filmmakers stand naked in the reflection of their own words, excerpts from their recent journals written on a wall. A lithe young woman hunches over a toilet bowl, a hangman’s noose cinched tightly around her neck – “silent suicide.” In this uniquely stylized documentary, the filmmakers, Leslie Côté, a recovered bulimic, and Felicia Francescut, a recovered anorexic, seek to unravel the naked truth about their own illnesses.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

minutes

Colour

Producers, Directors and Scriptwriters

Leslie Côté

Felicia Francescut

Executive Producers

Paul Jay

David M. Ostriker

Production

Atmos Films
61 Hillsdale Ave. W.
Toronto Ontario
M5P 1E9
Canada
(416) 545-1964
(416) 545-1963
throughthickandthin@atmosfilms.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Titans: The Canadian Establishment

In 1998, veteran Canadian writer Peter C. Newman published the third of his best-selling books on the Canadian Establishment, Titans, a colourful and controversial work that chronicled the demise of the Old Establishment and the creation of a new band of men and women who now run Canada’s economy. Based on Newman’s extensive research, this documentary series profiles some of the most influential people in Canada, as individuals and as heads of the country’s most powerful corporations.

Digital Betacam

4 x 47 minutes

Colour

Producer

David Paperny

Coproducer

Michael A. Levine

Executive Producers

David Paperny

Michael A. Levine

Directors

Terry McEvoy

Elliot Shiff

Moira Simpson

Andrew Burnstein

Scriptwriters

Terry McEvoy

Elliot Shiff

Moira Simpson

Andrew Burnstein

Howard Green

Production

Paperny Films Inc.
2043 Quebec St.
2nd Floor
Vancouver British Columbia
V5T 2Z6
Canada
(604) 228-1960
(604) 228-1911
info@papernyfilms.com
www.papernyfilms.com

Generic Productions Inc.
250 Yonge Street Suite 2400
Toronto Ontario
M5B 2M6
Canada
(416) 979-2211
(416) 979-1234
levinem@tor.gpv.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

To Colonize a People: The File Hills Indian Farm Colony

The File Hills Indian Farm Colony operated on the Peepeekisis Indian Reserve in southern Saskatchewan between 1900 and 1932. The Colony brought together select graduates from Indian Industrial and Residential Schools for the purpose of farming, community development and, ultimately, assimilation. Although cele- brated nationally and politically as a success, the Colony was also an admitted experiment with human lives and social engineering – meant to solve the “Indian Problem.”

Betacam SP

minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Evelyn Poitras

Executive Producer

Doug Cuthand

Narrator

Gordon Tootoosis

Production

Blue Thunderbird Productions
P.O. Box 103
Regina Saskatchewan
S4P 2Z5
Canada
(306) 565-0785
(306) 525-0778
bluethunderbird@microflash.com
www.pesakastew.sk.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Turning Points of History IV

Turning Points of History recaptures the milestone events in Canadian and international history that dramatically changed the world. Season four’s subjects include the 1915 Battle of Ypres, where 6,000 Canadian soldiers fell victim to one of the First World War’s deadliest weapons, poison gas; and the events leading up to President Kennedy’s most humiliating disaster, the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The series also looks at more recent headlines, such as the blood-spattered killing grounds of Rwanda.

Betacam SP

13 x 47 minutes

Colour

Producer

Alan Mendelsohn

Executive Producer

Laszlo Barna

Directors

Various / Divers

Scriptwriters

Various / Divers

Narrator

Cedric Smith

Production

Barna-Alper Productions
366 Adelaide St. W.
Suite 700
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1R9
Canada
(416) 979-0676
(416) 979-7476
info@bap.ca
www.bap.ca

Connections
236 St. George
Moncton New Brunswick
E1C 1W1
Canada
(506) 382-3984

Distribution – Canada

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.,
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 960-0971
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Moment in Time (A): The United Colors of Bronstein

In April 1975, a picture of Naomi Bronstein, in shock at the site of a plane crash in Saigon, made headlines. She had arranged to evacuate orphans on the flight – to be adopted in the West. The horror of that moment has reverberated through her life. She has adopted seven orphans and has worked with sick children all over the world. This documentary traces Naomi’s fast-paced life and highlights an emotional reunion – 25 years on – with orphans who miraculously escaped the crash.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

55 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Judy Jackson

Narrator

Megan Bronstein

Production

Judy Films Inc.
6 Fir Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M4E 1B5
Canada
(416) 694-5544
(416) 694-3686
judyj@attcanada.ca

International distribution

Film Transit International Inc.
252, boul. Gouin Est
Montreal Quebec
H3L 1A8
Canada
(514) 844-3358
(514) 844-7298
info@filmstransit.com
www.filmstransit.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Remembrance: Memorial to an Unknown Soldier

Remembrance: Memorial to an Unknown Soldier examines the phenomenon of remembrance as exemplified by the return of an unknown Canadian soldier from Vimy to a tomb specially created in 2000at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. It is a moving and fitting tribute to the nearly 28,000 Canadian servicemen and women who gave their lives to their country and have no known graves.

Betacam SP

48 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Richard Nielsen

Executive Producer

Lana Pitkin

Directors

Alan Erlich

Valmont Jobin

Scriptwriter

Richard Nielsen

Narrator

Gordon Pinsent

Production

Norflicks Productions Ltd.
124 Dupont St.
Toronto Ontario
M5R 1V2
Canada
(416) 351-7558
(416) 351-8165
mail@norflicks.com
www.norflicks.com

Distribution – Canada

Morningstar Entertainment
23 Lesmill Rd.
Suite 201
Don Mills Ontario
M3B 3P6
Canada
(800) 590-3350
(416) 443-0396

www.morningstarent.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Un portrait de Pierre Gauvreau

Noted filmmaker Charles Binamé profiles the man he considers his mentor, Pierre Gauvreau. Gauvreau was one of the signatories of the 1948 manifesto Refus Global. A gifted painter, filmmaker and writer, Pierre Gauvreau has marked the imaginary landscape of Quebecers for 50 years through his unforgettable television dramas, which paralleled the development of the medium itself.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour

Producer

Chantal Bowen

Executive Producer

Jean-Pierre Morin

Director and Scriptwriter

Charles Binamé

Production

Vivavision inc.
1973, rue Falardeau
Montreal Quebec
H2K 2L9
Canada
(514) 527-9700
(514) 527-9625
vivavision@vivavision.ca
www.vivavision.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Une révolution tranquille - Une histoire populaire du Québec

This documentary offers a clear and fair-minded assessment of Quebec society between 1960 and 1980. In Quebec, as elsewhere, traditional ideologies were breaking down: major social and economic reforms were introduced, war measures were imposed, labour unions and feminists sought greater rights, language tensions arose, nationalism surged, health and educational services were modernized, society became increasingly secularized, and business began to play a more prominent role – leading to the rise of “Quebec Inc.” The 1960s to the 1980s, in short, were a time of social upheaval.

Betacam SP

4 x 52 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Chantale Bujold

Executive Producers

Gabor Kertesz

Pierre Paquet

Chantale Bujold

Director and Scriptwriter

Jacques Cossette-Trudel

Narrators

Sophie Faucher

Pierre Nadeau

Pierre Bernard

Production

Imavision Productions
1323, rue St-Jacques Ouest
Montreal Quebec
H3C 4K2
Canada
(514) 846-1223
(514) 846-9150
imavisionproductions@videotron.ca

Distribution – Canada

Imavision Distribution
1313, rue St-Jacques Ouest
Montreal Quebec
H3C 4K2
Canada
(514) 333-7635
(514) 333-7639
admin@imavision.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Unikaatuatiit (Storytellers)

Inuit storytelling is a rich, 4000-year-old art form which uses oral history to maintain culture through countless generations. Unikaatuatiit (Storytellers) brings a special style of Inuit storytelling into modern documentary and dramatic filmmaking.

Betacam SP

6 x 60 minutes

Colour

Producers

Zacharias Kunuk

Norman Cohn

Natar Ungalaaq

Paul Apak

Executive Producers

Zacharias Kunuk

Norman Cohn

Directors and Scriptwriters

Zacharias Kunuk

Natar Ungalaaq

Production

Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc.
P.O. Box 223
Igloolik Nunavut
X0A 0L0
Canada
(867) 934-8809
(867) 934-8700
isuma@isuma.ca
www.isuma.ca

Distribution – Canada

Isuma Distribution International
5764, av. Monkland
Bureau 223
Montreal Quebec
H4A 1E9
Canada
(514) 486-0707
(514) 486-9851
cohn@isuma.ca
www.isuma.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Unique au monde II

The deafening cry of the raven, the underground cities of prairie dogs, the teeming life of marshes and swamps, the strange metamorphosis of the dragonfly – these fascinating natural phenomena are just a few of the subjects covered by Unique au monde II. Entertaining and educational, each episode takes viewers on a photo-safari through various natural habitats. Not only does the series help us learn about the different animal species found through-out Canada, it helps us understand how their lives are being affected by human activity.

Betacam SP

13 x 26 minutes

Colour

Producer

Charles Lavack

Executive Producer

Louis Paquin

Director and Scriptwriter

Roland Lavoie

Gary Yates

Narrators and Hosts

Jean-Louis Hébert

Micheline Marchildon

Production

Les Productions Rivard inc.
354 Marion St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R2H 0V3
Canada
(204) 233-0694
(204) 231-4010
rivard@productionsrivard.com
www.productionsrivard.com

Distribution – Canada

Source
354 Marion St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R2H 0V3
Canada
(204) 233-0694
(204) 231-4010
source@productionsrivard.com
www.sourcedistribution.ca

International distribution

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Untangling the Mind - The Legacy of Dr. Heinz Lehmann

When Dr. Heinz Lehmann launched his career in Canada in the 1930s, psychiatric hospitals were, in Lehmann’s own words, “snake pits.” In hospitals around the world, naked patients lay in their own excrement while orderlies wrestled violent inmates into straightjackets. This documentary offers a poignant look at the man who transformed psychiatric hospitals into the therapeutic environments they are today – a feat he accomplished with a single pill, Largactil, the first anti-psychotic drug used in North America.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

54 minutes

Colour

Producer

Catherine Mullins

Director and Scriptwriter

Tom Puchniak

Narrator

Lynne Adams

Production

Green Lion Productions
20223 Lakeshore Rd.
Baie-D'Urfé Quebec
H9X 1P9
Canada
(514) 457-5555
(514) 457-3255
cmullins@greenlionfilms.com

Distribution – Canada

The Magic Lantern Communications Ltd.
10 Meteor Dr.
Toronto Ontario
M9W 1A4
Canada
1-800-263-1717
(416) 675-1154
E.video@magiclantern.ca
www.magiclantern.ca

International distribution

Filmoption International Ltd.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
filmoption@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Vie sans frontières (La)

Each program in this series examines a particular technique related to the field of biotechnology. Following a brief historical overview of the technique, researchers describe its current and potential applications. The series takes us into the everyday world of the scientific revolution engendered by the development of genomics and biotechnology.

Betacam SP

12 x 60 minutes

Colour

Executive Producers

Jaquelin Bouchard

Daniel Beauchesne

Line Producer

Nicole Faucher

Director

Claude Lortie

Scriptwriter

Johanne Hébert

Production

Productions Pixcom inc.
1720, rue du Canal
Montreal Quebec
H3K 3E6
Canada
(514) 931-1188
(514) 931-2126
info@pixcom.com
www.pixcom.com

Distribution

Pixcom International inc.
1720, rue du Canal
Montreal Quebec
H3K 3E6
Canada
(514) 931-1188
(514) 931-2126
info@pixcom.com
www.pixcom.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Virtues: A Family Affair II

Virtues: A Family Affair documents examples of parents, schools and youth organizations that have found practical ways to incorporate universally acknowledged virtues into daily life. Some simple steps are shown to bring out the best in ourselves and in our teenagers as we cope with today’s confusing and often violent society.

Betacam SP

6 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producers

Hilary Jones-Farrow

Linda Kavelin Popov

Executive Producer

Hilary Jones-Farrow

Director

Hilary Jones-Farrow

Scriptwriters

Hilary Jones-Farrow

Linda Kavelin Popov

Narrator

Karl Hardin

Production

The May Street Group Film, Video & Animation Ltd.
4412 Wilkinson Rd.
Victoria British Columbia
V8Z 5B7
Canada
(250) 380-6656
(250) 380-6670
maystreet@maystreet.ca
www.maystreet.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Vive la chanson libre

Between 1970 and 1980, popular songs in Quebec were intimately tied to politics. From the 1970 October Crisis to the 1980 Referendum defeat, the landscape of Quebec song was coloured by the marriage of reason and passion. In this documentary, singers, songwriters, politicians and other observers look back over this period in Quebec’s history, which was filled with emotion as well as disappointment.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour

Producer

Pierre Marchand

Executive Producer

Johanne Mercier

Director and Scriptwriter

André St-Pierre

Host

Franco Nuovo

Narrator

Marie-Christine Labelle

Cast

Louise Forestier

Lise Payette

Paul Piché

Claude Charron

Production/Distribution

Tv Maxplus
355, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest
Montreal Quebec
H3B 1A5
Canada
(514) 284-7587
(514) 284-2803

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Vivre à deux II

Why is it that, throughout history, men and women have always followed the same pattern, constantly choosing to live together, constantly breaking up? Why, despite their difficulties maintaining a relationship, do some men and women persist in living as a couple? This series looks at what it means to live in a relationship today, as seen through the testimonies of men and women who live together. Each episode introduces us to an ordinary couple and observes how they negotiate the everyday challenges of their partnership.

Betacam SP

26 x 24 minutes

Colour

Producers

Micheline Loiselle

Sylvie Roy

Executive Producers

Jacques Bonin

Claude Veillet

Director

Ginette Jalbert

Host

Mireille Deyglun

Production

Téléfiction Productions inc.
4446, boul. Saint-Laurent
7^e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
information@telefiction.com
www.telefiction.com

Distribution – Canada

Téléfiction Distribution et Marketing
4446, boul. St-Laurent 7e étage
Montreal Quebec
H2W 1Z5
Canada
(514) 499-0972
(514) 844-5498
info@telefiction.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Vivre sans homme

This documentary introduces us to some 20 women, aged between 18 and 77, who live alone, either by choice or circumstance. Although they have attained a measure of freedom and independence by living alone, their lives are marked by an often-painful solitude. Wary young women, abandoned wives, women who have simply given up on relationships: the program examines the bonds that these women have forged with one another, and looks at the ties they have with those whom they left behind in their quest for freedom.

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour

Executive Producer

Denise Bombardier

Line Producer

Marie-Hélène Tremblay

Director

Paul Bourgeault

Scriptwriter, Narrator and Animator

Denise Bombardier

Production

Productions Noir sur Blanc
4361, rue de Bullion Bureau 305
Montreal Quebec
H2W 2G2
Canada
(514) 845-8882
(514) 845-4424

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Voices of War

This four-part series (A Soldier’s Voice, Stories From the Trenches, Stories From the Air and Stories From the Sea) provides surviving veterans with a forum in which to share their unique perspective on our country’s war years – the battles, the fear, the camaraderie, the love, the liberation, and the loss of innocence that is war. Voices of War is a unique testament that gives honour and due to those that experienced armed conflict in a righteous cause.

Betacam SP

4 x 45 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer

Paul Millar

Executive Producer

Ron Goetz

Director

Chris Triffo

Scriptwriters

Jason Hujber

Paul Millar

Narrator

Bruce Edwards

Production

Partners In Motion
2704 10th Ave.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4T 1E9
Canada
(306) 545-2228
(306) 569-9616
jstecyk@partnersinmotion.com
www.partnersinmotion.com

Distribution

Harmony Entertainment Management Inc.
2704-10th Ave.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4N 3T3
Canada
(306) 545-2228
(306) 569-9616
jstecyk@partnersinmotion.com
www.partnersinmotion.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Voix de la prairie (La)

Western Canada is home to a vibrant, organized – and virtually unknown – community of some 100,000 people who share a common trait: they speak French. This documentary goes in search of these men and women, the remaining survivors of a history that belongs to them alone and which they are desperately trying to preserve. Living on the vast prairies, the members of this community trace their roots to the original voyageurs and coureurs de bois who penetrated deep into the heart of North America.

Betacam SP

52 minutes

Colour

Producers

Charles Lavack

Jean-Charles Leroux

Executive Producer

Louis Paquin

Director and Scriptwriter

Jean Dulon

Production

Les Productions Rivard inc.
354 Marion St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R2H 0V3
Canada
(204) 233-0694
(204) 231-4010
rivard@productionsrivard.com
www.productionsrivard.com

Distribution – Canada

Source
354 Marion St.
Winnipeg Manitoba
R2H 0V3
Canada
(204) 233-0694
(204) 231-4010
source@productionsrivard.com
www.sourcedistribution.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Walls for Change

Murals, conflict and community. Canadian, Irish and American artists mirror community struggles and aspirations through contemporary political wall murals. The results are dramatic statements from neighbourhoods more commonly known for their daily tragedies than for the spirit and strength that is evidenced in their art.

Betacam SP
VHS
Digital Betacam

48 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Cindy Leaney

Production/Distribution

Voyage Media Productions
1255 East 15th Ave., Suite 14
Vancouver British Columbia
V5T 2S7
Canada
(604) 618-3643
(604) 879-1444
cleaney@istar.ca
voyagemedia.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

War Brides (The): From Romance to Reality

The War Brides: From Romance to Reality explores the amazing stories of the women who married Canadian servicemen during the Second World War and came to live in Canada. It is a remarkable tale of hope, courage, perseverance and determination. The women reminisce about the hopelessness and despair wrought by bombing raids, wartime rations, military service and factory work. Together they weave an intensely personal view of war from a female perspective.

Betacam SP

45 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Christine Dubue-Bertrim

Cherylyn Brooks

Executive Producer

Cherylyn Brooks

Director and Scriptwriter

Anne Hainsworth

Narrator

Pamela Wallin

Production

Kiss the Bride Productions
9 Mayford Ave.
Ottawa Ontario
K2G 6A7
Canada
(613) 823-7477
(613) 823-7450
chrisd@echelon.ca
www.kissthebride.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

War Wounds & Memory

War Wounds & Memory profiles three Canadian men who served with the United States Army in the Vietnam War, and recounts their 30-year struggle with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The program includes testimony and insight from doctors and psychologists – themselves veterans afflicted with PTSD – who are working with the Canadians.

Digital Betacam

50 minutes

Colour

Producers

Joseph Ferguson

Brian McKeown

Director and Scriptwriter

Brian McKeown

Production/Distribution

Howe Sound Films Inc.
4314 West 13th Ave.
Vancouver British Columbia
V6R 2T9
Canada
(604) 224-0091
(604) 224-0093
howesnd@portal.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Weddings IV

Weddings uncorks different strokes for different folks! This series takes the cake when it comes to exploring the passionate issues and efforts taking place in today’s world of couples partnering – whether they be first time romantics, high-school sweethearts, religious converts, or previously married with children. Weddings set its sights on 22 different couples with 22 different scenarios of pledging their love for each other, offering viewers a glimpse of its subjects’ most cherished moments.

Betacam SP

22 x 24 minutes

Colour

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Karen Wookey

Executive Producers

William Johnston

Ronald Lillie

Production

Weddings IV
174 Rushton Rd.
Toronto Ontario
M6G 3J3
Canada
(416) 653-0100
(416) 652-5101

Production/Distribution – Canada

Summerhill Entertainment Inc.
56 Shaftesbury Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M4T 1A3
Canada
(416) 967-6503
(416) 967-1292
ablock@summerhill.tv
www.summerhill.tv

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Weird Homes III

Weird Homes features some of the most unusual and bizarre homes in North America. The series takes the viewer beyond the facade of these strange sites to meet the fascinating and inspiring people who created them.

High Definition
D5
Digital Betacam

26 x 23 minutes

Colour

Producer

Mike Collier

Executive Producers

Mike Collier

John Cumming

Directors

Various / Divers

Scriptwriter, Narrator and Host

Arthur Black

Production/Distribution

Yaletown Entertainment Corp.
1431 Howe St.
Vancouver British Columbia
V6Z 1R9
Canada
(604) 669-3843
(604) 669-5149
mcollier@yaletownentertainment.com
www.yaletownentertainment.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Weird Wheels

Hidden away in garages, barns and workshops across North America, creative minds decorate and attach weird stuff to their vehicles. Serious “funsters” think up ways to motorize whatever they happen to be sitting on. We learn what makes these very independent people tick, why they do what they do, and how those around them accept their obsessions. We also visit some of the many events where they show off their “masterpieces.”

High Definition
D5
Digital Betacam

13 x 23 minutes

Colour

Producer

Mike Collier

Executive Producers

Mike Collier

John Cumming

Director

PJ Reece

Scriptwriters

Arthur Black

PJ Reece

Narrator

Arthur Black

Production/Distribution

Yaletown Entertainment Corp.
1431 Howe St.
Vancouver British Columbia
V6Z 1R9
Canada
(604) 669-3843
(604) 669-5149
mcollier@yaletownentertainment.com
www.yaletownentertainment.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Whole Notes II

Music is an integral part of our everyday lives. Whole Notes examines the classics from a uniquely Canadian perspective, talking with Canadian performers, conductors, and experts to explain how the classics have evolved and been adapted for our own lifestyles and social patterns. Whole Notes will appeal to viewers of all ages and backgrounds.

Betacam SP

6 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producer

Phyllis Laing

Executive Producer

Neil Bregman

Director

Brian Rougeau

Scriptwriter

Mike Laewen

Host

John Kimura Parker

Cast

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

Production

Buffalo Gal Pictures Inc.
70 Arthur St.
Suite 333
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3B 1G7
Canada
(204) 956-2777
(204) 956-7999
info@buffalogalpictures.com
www.buffalogalpictures.com

Sound Venture Productions
126 York St.
Suite 219
Ottawa Ontario
K1N 5T5
Canada
(613) 241-5111 ext. 250
(613) 241-5010
neil@soundventure.com
www.soundventure.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Wild for Weather

Wild for Weather explores the world media’s obsession – and the public’s fascination – with weather, especially disasters. The film follows journalist Josh Freed as he travels far and wide in search of an explanation for this peculiar phenomenon. As expected, a curious cast of characters emerges, including storm chasers, meteorologists and sky artists. In the end, one question lingers: How did weather, once the most mundane of topics, become so sexy?

Digital Betacam

42 minutes

Colour

Producer

Arnie Gelbart

Director, Scriptwriter and Narrator

Josh Freed

Production/Distribution – Canada

Galafilm Productions Inc.
5643, rue Clark
Bureau 300
Montreal Quebec
H2T 2V5
Canada
(514) 273-4252
(514) 273-8689
info@galafilm.com
www.galafilm.com

International distribution

Mundovision World Network
300, rue Léo-Pariseau
Bureau 1820
Montreal Quebec
H2W 2P4
Canada
(514) 985-2004
(514) 985-2005
mundo@Interlog.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Wild Lives

Based on the current television trend of telling the story of almost everyone who’s anyone, Wild Lives takes an established format and gives it a twist: telling the life stories of a variety of wild creatures. In the human world, a life and death struggle is rare high drama; in the natural world, life and death struggles are a daily occurrence. Each episode features an individual indigenous wild creature: coyote, garter snake, swift fox, white pelican, coot, moose, and others.

Betacam SP

10 x 30 minutes

Colour

Producer

Karen P. Henders

Executive Producers

Michael Snook

Clark Donnelly

Director

Robert J. Long

Scriptwriters

Bruce Edwards

Patricia Miller-Schroeder

Narrator

Gerald Lenton Young

Production

WestWind Pictures Ltd.
2206 Dewdney Ave.
Suite 402
Regina Saskatchewan
S4R 1H3
Canada
(306) 777-0160
(306) 352-8558
michaelsnook@westwindpictures.com
www.westwindpictures.com

Distribution

Minds Eye International
480 Henderson Dr.
Regina Saskatchewan
S4N 6E3
Canada
(306) 781-7353
(306) 359-3466
alesiuk@mindseyeinternational.com
www.mindseyeinternational.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (LFP)

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Wilderness Journeys

Each program in Wilderness Journeys transports viewers through an extraordinary Canadian wilderness, exploring its awesome scenery and charismatic inhabitants. Along the way, the programs illustrate the close ties binding wildlife, environment and humans together as strands in the web of life. Journey destinations include wetlands, underwater cradles of life, the Amisk Forest – where the spirit of the black bear lives – and Falaise Lake, home of wolves and bison.

Betacam SP
Digital Betacam

minutes

Colour

Producer

Albert Karvonen

Directors

Andrew Manske

Albert Karvonen

Doug Steele

Scriptwriters

Sandra Tober

Michele MacDonald

Production/Distribution – Canada

Karvonen Films Ltd.
2001 91st Ave.
Edmonton Alberta
T6P 1L1
Canada
(780) 467-7167
(780) 467-7162
films@karvonenfilms.com
www.karvonenfilms.com

International distribution

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount Quebec
H3Z 1X1
Canada
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
www.filmoption.com

With the support of

Telefilm Canada

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

Wrinkle: Women, Aging and Power

A group of top fashion models from the 1960s and 1970s reunites to share their experiences with beauty, aging, menopause, gray hair and personal power. Wrinkle explores life after 50 with humour and compassion from the viewpoint of former high-fashion model Judy Holm and her runway colleagues.

Betacam SP

minutes

Colour

Producers

Anne Pick

Michael McNamara

Executive Producer

Anne Pick

Director

Michael McNamara

Scriptwriters

Judy Holm

Michael McNamara

Narrator

Judy Holm

Production

Real to Reel Productions Inc.
3023 Dundas St. W.
Toronto Ontario
M6P 1Z4
Canada
(416) 763-0001
(416) 763-1496
info@r2r.ca
www.r2r.ca

Distribution – Canada

Buzzmedia (contact: Natalie Vinet)
1110 Yonge Street, Suite 201
Toronto Ontario
M4W 2L6
Canada
(416) 920-3800
(416) 920-3998
buxxtaxi@buzztaxi.com

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

You... Me & the Kids - The Teen Years

This award-winning combination of drama and documentary focuses on family issues and is directed towards parents and teens. Each episode pursues a single topic and, within each episode, the drama of Rachel, her high-spirited daughter, Emily, and their newly blended family with Sam and his daughter, Chloe, continues to unfold. The dramatic line contrasts with and sometimes parallels the story told in the documentary segments.

Betacam SP

26 x 24 minutes

Colour

Producers

Nikila Cole

Simone Wilson

Executive Producer

Hugh Beard

Directors

Hugh Beard

John Ritchie

/ Et autres And others

Scriptwriters

Cathy Moss

CJ Spear

Lynda Boyd

Cast

Lynda Boyd

Veronica Sztopa

Meghan Black

Mitch Kosterman

Production/Distribution – Canada

Force Four Entertainment
1152 Mainland St., Suite 310
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B 4X2
Canada
(604) 669-4424
(604) 669-4535
tv@forcefour.com
www.forcefour.com

International distribution

Forefront Releasing
402 West Pender St., Suite 700
Vancouver British Columbia
V5K 1E3
Canada
(604) 682-7910
(604) 682-8583

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund

CATALOGUE

Documentaries 2001

24 heures pour l'histoire III

Betacam SP

3 x 53 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers and Directors

Scriptwriters

Narrator

Production/Distribution

With the support of

30 journées qui ont fait le Québec (Les)

Betacam SP

30 x 47 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Director

Scriptwriter

Narrator

Production

Distribution – Canada

With the support of

Aftermath: The Remnants of War

Betacam SPDigital Betacam

minutes

Colour, black and white

Producers

Executive Producers

Director

Scriptwriters

Production

Distribution – Canada, United States and Central America

International distribution

With the support of

IL NE LEUR MANQUE QUE LA PAROLE

Digital Betacam

52 minutes

Colour

Producers

Director and Scriptwriter

Production

Distribution

With the support of

Alpha Yaya Diallo (Best of Both World / Le Meilleur des deux mondes)

Betacam SPDigital Betacam

50 minutes

Colour, black and white

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Narrator

Cast

Production

With the support of

Soul Expressions

Betacam SP

2 x 23 minutes

Colour

Producers

Director and Scriptwriter

Production

With the support of

Anna Malenfant d'Acadie

Betacam SP

60 minutes

Colour

Producer

Director and Scriptwriter

Narrator

Cast

Production/Distribution

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minutes

Colour

Executive Producers

Producers

Director

Scriptwriter

Narrators

Production

Distribution – Canada

International distribution

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