Kensington Communications

Filmography

Television Series

• Museum Secrets (History TV, UKTV, Historia, BBC) - A 22-episode series that goes into museums (e.g. the Louvre, the American Museum of Natural History, the Vatican) and looks at the stories behind the museums' artifacts. Awarded Best Factual Series at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards.
• Shameless Idealists (CTV) - a five-part series that profiles celebrity changemakers and social activists. Produced in collaboration with Free the Children
• Diamond Road, 3-part documentary series produced for TVOntario, History Television, Discovery Times, ZDF, Arte and Special Broadcasting Service Australia; awarded best documentary series, Gemini Award.
• City Sonic (co-produced with White Pine Pictures), 4 x 30 minutes and 20 5-minute episodes, 2009
• 72 Hours: True Crime, 3 seasons from 2005-2007 (CBC/TLC).
• Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science, 5 seasons from 1997-2003 (Discovery/CTV/TLC).
• The Sacred Balance (CBC/PBS), with broadcaster-environmentalist David Suzuki which is also accompanied by an interactive media site, Sacred Balance.com; awarded best science environment program, Houston Worldfest, Yorkton Short Film festival and many others.

One-off Documentaries:

• Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary (CBC's The Nature of Things)
• Why We Dance (CBC, ARTV, Explora, SWR and Arte)
• Nature's Cleanup Crew (CBC, ZDF, Arte)
• The Shadow of Gold (TVO, Canal D, Arte France, SVT) - co-production with Films à Cinq, Paris
• Champions vs. Legends (CBC, SRC, Arte, ARD, ORF) - co-production with Berlin Producers (Germany) and PreTV (Austria)
• Risk Factor (TVO, Canal D, Knowledge Network)
• The Equalizer (CBC, SRC, Arte, ZDF) - co-production with Berlin Producers
• Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits (TVO, ZDF Arte, Canal D, SBS)
• Return to Nepal with Bruce Cockburn (documentary channel)
• Almost Home: A Sayisi Dene Journey (CBC); awarded best Social Political documentary and Kathleen Shannon Award at Yorkton Film Festival.
• My Beat: The Life and Times of Bruce Cockburn (CBC)
• River of Sand (TVO/Vision); awarded best Canadian film at Vues d'Afrique film festival
• Separate Lives (Discovery/TLC/BBC), awarded best science, environment or nature documentary, Gemini Award
• A Place in the World (Vision/SCN); awarded Vision Humanitarian Award, Hot Docs
• Mariposa: Under a Stormy Sky—an examination of 1960s folk music and the Mariposa Folk Festival (CTV)
• One Warm Line—a portrait of the legendary Canadian folk singer, Stan Rogers (CBC)
• Pacific Rim: A Park and its People (Discovery Channel's Parks Series)
• On the Run: Growing up with Alcohol; Awarded Best Film from the National Foundation for Alcoholism Communications Awards
• Out of the Past (TVOntario, PBS, Access Alberta)
• Stepdancing: Portrait of a Remarried Family (CBC); Awarded 1987 Blue Ribbon in the American Film and Video Festival
• Seeds
• Fragile Harvest(CBC's The Nature of Things, NFB)
• Joe David/Spirit of the Mask half-hour documentary for CBC)
• Childhood's End (for TVO)

Recognitions

Awards

;2014 : Canadian Screen Award, Best Factual Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) : Canadian Screen Award, Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) ;2013: Canadian Screen Award, Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) : Digi Awards, (Nomination) Best in Mobility, ScopifyROM ;2008: Canadian New Media Awards, Best News Information, Diamond Road Online : Gemini Award – Best Documentary Series, Diamond Road : Platinum Award – Best Feature Documentary, Diamond Road (Houston Worldfest) ;2005 & 2007: Worldmedal – Docudrama, 72 Hours: True Crime (New York Festivals) ;2004: Golden Sheaf Award – Best Documentary, Social/Political Almost Home (Yorkton Festival) ;2004: NFB Kathleen Shannon Award, Almost Home (Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival) ;2004: Platinum Award – Ecology/Environment/Conservation, Sacred Balance Show 3 Fire of Creation (Houston Worldfest) ;1998: Gemini Award – Science, Technology, Nature, Separate Lives (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) ;1997: HotDocs – Vision TV Humanitarian Award, A Place in the World ;1995: Award of Excellence – Best Variety, The Biggest Little Ticket (Alliance for Children and Television)

References

References

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2. "Museum Secrets on History Television".
3. http://www.museumsecrets.tv/ Museum Secrets Official Site
4. http://diamondroad.tv/index_tvo.php/ ''Diamond Road'' on TVO
5. http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/72_hours_true_crime_hd/ ''72 Hours: True Crime'' on CBC
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