Richard Elson(III)
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Since founding Imageries LTD. in 1980, Montreal-based, documentary film
producer Richard Elson has won numerous national and international
awards, including an Oscar nomination for The Colours of My Father: A
Portrait of Sam Borenstein. In 2005 Colours of my Father, was released
by the co-producer, The National Film Board of Canada, as a DVD and in
HD. -- In 1999 at the International Festival of Maritime and
Exploration Films in Toulon, France, The Mystery of the Blue Whale, a
documentary about the last giant mammal living on this planet, was
awarded the Rolex Grand Prize for the protection of the underwater
world. -- In 2005 Imageries LTD, along with Beitel/Lazar Productions,
jointly created a new production company, Les Productions du Boulevard
which produced the feature documentary, Chez Schwartz, broadcast in
Quebec on Tele-Quebec and is internationally distributed by Filmoption
International. --In association with Galafilm Productions, Richard
Elson produced the 6-hour documentary series, Chiefs, for History
Television, about the lives of such remarkable First Nations chiefs as
Sitting Bull, Poundmaker, Black Hawk, Brant and Pontiac. -- What If...
A film about Judith Merril, Bittersweet Deliveries, The Empty Net,
Animal Connections, The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam
Borenstein, Bonjour! Shalom! and The Cry of the Beluga are among
Richard Elson's award winning productions produced by Imageries Ltd. --
Imageries Ltd.'s current projects include, Once Upon A Story, a feature
documentary about the story of storytelling, which Richard Elson is
developing for Tele-Quebec. It is written and directed by Terre Nash,
with support form the Societe de developpement des entreprises
culturelles. -- Richard Elson continues his passionate involvement in
support of independent Canadian documentary production and
distribution. He is a past co-chair of the Quebec section of the
Documentary Organization of Canada and past Vice-Chair and Treasurer of
the Board of Directors of the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund.
He also served as the Vice-President of Cinema.