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- In 1919, a film crew set out on an epic journey across Canada's North. Over the course of six months, their expedition traveled by icebreaker, canoe, and dog sled, capturing the Canadian fur trade in a silent feature documentary. The Romance of the Far Fur Country was released in 1920, two years before the legendary film Nanook of the North. Rediscovering the documentary in a British archive, another film crew begins a journey to resurrect the lost film, taking it to the communities where the film was originally shot. Images come to life; people recognize faces, landscapes, and lost traditions.
- Sticks, Stones, Bricks and Bones is a documentary about Winnipeg people and the objects they work with, play with, or simply have a passion for. Whether a curler teaching children to sweep at the Granite Curling Club, or a demolition man salvaging bricks, an archaeologist showing the city's oldest finds, or and a furniture salesman musing about grains in wood--these people may carve sticks, throw stones, place bricks or date bones, but they hold our city together, sometimes in ways we don't expect, and in places we wouldn't think to find them. They hang from the highest branches of our trees, and dig below our sewers--and they are as important as the materials they work with, whether stick, stone, brick or bone.
- Intersections is a six part documentary TV series commissioned by MTS TV for their Winnipeg on Demand series. The series is a slice of life and business at various intersections in Winnipeg. The film records what life is like for people living and working at some of the busier and colourful corners of Winnipeg. Each episode explores the life of the people and businesses, going beyond stereotypes & sensational headlines commonly found in the news media.
- Our Neon City is a 5 part short documentary TV series that explores the history of Winnipeg through neon signs from businesses from the past century. Each film takes a neon sign and explores the people that owned, worked, or visited the establishment from the past. The objective of the series is to celebrate the complexity and diversity of Winnipeg's history. Episodes include: Clifford's, The Blue Note Cafe, Dojack's, The Royal Alexandra Hotel's Turkish Baths, and the Bell Hotel.
- Tales from The Winnipeg Film Group is the explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected film centre in Canada. Packed with rare archival footage, dynamic film excerpts, and hilarious interviews this documentary traces the history of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group. Often mired in controversy the Winnipeg Film Group is acclaimed at film festivals around the world for subversive, original filmmaking. We hear great behind the scenes stories that detail the rise of acclaimed filmmakers like John Paizs (Crime Wave), Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, My Winnipeg) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (We're Talking Vulva, Good Citizen, Betty Baker) and Caroline Monnett (Ikwe) Pioneering members such as Elise Swerhone, Allan Kroeker and Shereen Jerrett outline the beginnings in Winnipeg from its first home in the historic Bate Building in the 1970s to its later move to 88 Adelaide Street and the Artspace Building. Toronto International Film Festival CEO Piers Handling, writer and programmer Geoff Pevere and filmmaker Mike Hoolboom outline the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the national filmmaking scene.
- What do you do with a radar station no one wants anymore? Under a Cold War Sky explores the stories from the communities of Skrunda, Latvia and Hall Beach, Nunavut, Canada-two places on the margins, locations of radars built by the Americans and Soviets during the Cold War. The film reveals the stories of those living in places that were swept up in the conflict, people that still have Cold War stories to tell.