SASKATCHEWAN PRODUCTION
GUIDE - FALL 2008:
A COLLECTION OF OUR MEMBER’S
CURRENT & FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Prepared: August 2008
3rd Floor – 1831 College Avenue
Regina, SK S4R 4A1
Telephone: (306) 525-9899
Fax: (306)569-1818
www.smpia.sk.ca
SASKATCHEWAN PRODUCTION GUIDE – Fall 2008
(Dir = Director, EP = Executive Producer, Prod = Producer, CP = Co-Producer, AP = Associate
Producer, PD = Production Designer, SD = Sound Designer, SE = Story Editor, Bc =
Broadcaster, Ad = Airdate, FP = Financial Participation)
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IN DEVELOPMENT
365 Days of A
Zoot Pictures Inc. Feature.
Three students kidnap a legendary art figure who disappeared at the peak of his career, to break
the icon and his art, but see their own identities change in the battle to find the line between art,
the artist, and death.
Prod: Leslea Mair. Writer: D.L. MacGregor, Chris Cunningham. FP: Telefilm Canada Feature
Film Fund and SaskFilm. Ad: 2010.
Bitter Embrace
4 Square Entertainment Ltd. Movie of the Week.
Based upon the award winning book Bitter Embrace; White Society’s Assault on the Woodland
Cree, by Maggie Siggins, 4 Square’s vice president, creative. This film will tell the true life story
of how a member of Canada’s elite police, the RCMP, abused his position and serially sexually
assaulted very young women on an Indian reserve and went on to become a very influential
politician. Ultimately, he was brought to justice by the persistence of one of his victims. This is a
story of abuse, hubris, justice and redemption.
Dir: Rob King. Prod: Gerald B. Sperling. Writer: Maggie Siggins. FP: APTN, SaskFilm and
Video Development Corporation.
Brocket 99
Minds Eye Entertainment. 30 min comedy series.
Picture an independent radio station broadcasting from a typical Indian reserve but run by
complete savages. When the DJ, Ernie, isn’t broadcasting (and sometimes when he is), he likes
to hang out with his buddies, play pool, get stoned and drink. They are the Aboriginal answer to
Trailer Park Boys but they are definitely not criminals. Nevertheless the CRTC is out to shut him
down.
Prod: Kevin DeWalt. Writers: Leon Soop, Paul Kuster. Host/Star: Paul Kuster.
Curling San Diego
Four Square Entertainment Ltd. / Incandescent Films. 60 min. HD Video.
Despite the palm trees and warm weather, a kid from small town Saskatchewan, his ice-sculpted
soul hungering for the cool Canadian North, takes on a founding role in the San Diego Curling
Club. Can his Canadian sensibility convince newbie San Diego curlers that it’s fun to forsake the
ever-pleasant climate of southern California to step onto the ice and curl? What makes him do it,
it’s so…so…Canadian – oh, and he wants to take the San Diego club team to the Olympics in
Whistler.
Dir/Prod/Writer: Donna Caruso. EP: Gerald Sperling. SE: Maggie Siggins. FP: SCN, CTF.
Dark Haven
Minds Eye Entertainment / Electric Entertainment. Feature. 90 min.
A young woman, barely out of Catholic prep school, discovers that hell is a place here on earth –
a place where Satan has devised a bone-chilling, murderous game for two players. But only one
will survive in the Dark Haven. Where there’s life, there’s hope. Where there’s hope, there’s the
chance that she can do what no one else has done before – bring an end to the nightmare. To do
that, she will have to become something she abhors – a cold-blooded, calculating killer. In Dark
Haven, a place where shadows cross the soul, anything is possible if one is prepared to win at all
costs.
Dir: Isaac Eaton. Prod: Kevin DeWalt, Rupert Harvey. Writers: Jim Vines, Rob King.
Host/Star: Billy Zane, Thora Birch.
Hidden People
Minds Eye Entertainment. Feature Film.
When Bryndis was nine she immigrated to Canada with her father. Her mother stayed
behind in Iceland only to drink herself into an early grave. Bryndis never forgave her.
Now married, with a seven-year-old son, Bryndis returns to Iceland and faces her past
when her husband John gets a high-profile engineering contract tunneling through the
avalanche prone fjords.
With her new job as fish plant supervisor, Bryndis’ biggest challenge is to overlook the
constant lateness and petty theft of the eccentric Thordis, who shows up drunk for work,
if she shows up at all. Thordis’ farm lies directly in the path of John’s road, and she’s
being forced out. John, a practical businessman, finds his construction the victim of
mysterious sabotage when he refuses to take part in a traditional ceremony to appease the
impish Hidden People.
As John forces his road through the majestic countryside, refusing to adapt to the land or
its customs, Bryndis, with the help of young Bjarni, begins to rediscover the soul of the
country of her birth. Iceland works its way back into her heart and she finds herself
wishing to protect the sad but magical home that her husband wants so to destroy. With
her husband long dead, for Thordis her three children are very much all she has left and
she protects her farm with a fierce, indomitable Viking spirit.
Bryndis is thrown off kilter when she discovers that Thordis’ children are a figment of
her imagination – they died in a road avalanche years ago. But are they a fabrication of
Thordis’ guilt-ridden mind? When Bryndis starts to hear her own deceased mother in the
wind and witnesses’ inexplicable occurrences at Thordis’ farm… she starts to question
what exactly to believe.
Prod: Kevin DeWalt . Writer: Lynn Kamm. EP: Kevin DeWalt.
Heaven and Earth
Minds Eye Entertainment. Mini-series. 2 x 120 min.
Two enigmatic men with very different histories and cultures form a lasting friendship amidst the
violent social and political storm that sweeps across the U.S./Canadian border and encircles both
their worlds. When Sitting Bull defeats Custer and flees into Canada, he comes under the
protection of the legendary Major James M. Walsh of the Northwest Mounted Police. Their
relationship is the cornerstone for this compelling saga of war, politics and cultural genocide.
EP/Prod: Kevin DeWalt. Writer: Keith Ross Leckie. FP: CBC, SaskFilm and Video
Development Corporation.
Landing: Stories from the Cultural Divide – Season III
Landing Season 3. Documentary Series. 13 x 24 min. HD.
Landing: Stories from the Cultural Divide is an award winning 13-part half hour documentary
series which tells personal stories of Canadians with diverse backgrounds. Insightful and
reflective, Landing intimately explores the lives of our characters, sharing the current and
historical events that have shaped their lives and our world.
Part ‘verite’, part traditional documentary, Landing accompanies diverse Canadians as they
transition from one stage of life to the next. We are there as they overcome challenges and
search for a grounded identity in a complex and fast changing world where cultures, beliefs and
ideas collide.
Landing is a cross-platform television series targeted at high school students and family
audiences. Go to http://www.landingtv.ca for more information.
Dir: Aidin Nakhai, Thomas Hale, Jeff Pufahl. Prod: Anand Ramayya, Ryan Lockwood.
Writer: Aidin Nakhai, Thomas Hale, Jeff Pufahl. DOP: Thomas Hale. FP: SCN.
Martensville Nightmare (aka Witchhunt)
4 Square Productions Limited. Movie of the Week.
This dramatic thriller, based on true events, tells the story of how the hysteria of a small
community led to the false accusation of several police officers of sexual abuse of small children.
The film will follow one tough cop who was accustomed to putting the bad guys in jail, who
suddenly finds himself on the other side with terrible consequences for his family and career.
Prod: Gerald B. Sperling. Writers: Keith Ross Leckie. Story Editor: Maggie Siggins.
FP: Movie Central, SaskFilm and Video Development Corporation, Telefilm Canada.
Operation Chastise
Minds Eye Entertainment / Electric Entertainment. Mini-series. 2 x 120 min.
On May 16, 1943, Lancaster bombers from RAF Squadron 617 skimmed along the surface of the
world and released their payload on three dams in Germany’s Ruhr valley. Until that night, their
efforts had existed only in the imaginations of a few men. By the next morning, the BBC was
heralding the mission, known as Operation Chastise, as a great victory. Two days later, Winston
Churchill addressed the United Sates Congress. Using the incredible fervour over Operation
Chastise, he convinced the Americans to keep their attention on Europe, rather than the Pacific.
Operation Chastise follows the lives of both the bombers of the RAF crews, most of whom trained
in Canada, and the German flak unit that guarded the valley. Most of them, on both sides of the
story, were less than twenty-five years old. This is the story of lost youth.
Prod: Kevin DeWalt, Rupert Harvey. FP: SaskFilm and Video Development Corporation, CTV
Saskatchewan Development Fund.
Rising Sun
Angel Entertainment. Feature Film. 35mm.
The setting is Vancouver, circa 1941. Canada is at war. Newspaper headlines trumpet
Japanese atrocities in Manchuria, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Japanese citizens are forbidden
to vote, or sit with whites in movie theatres. Against this backdrop, a match between the Asahi, an
all- Japanese ball team, and the Goliaths, the Vancouver city league champs, an all-white team,
is in progress. The Japanese were soundly beaten by the bigger, stronger white team at their
first meeting – now with their pride at risk they are determined more than ever to win. Using their
size to their advantage they have perfected “brainball”, a strategy of bunting and base stealing
raised to a fine art. It’s the bottom of the 9th inning, the game is tied, and Ken Katsukaki, 16, and
the Asahi’s star player, is at bat. The winning run is on third and in anticipation of the bunt the
white field has been pulled in. Mickey, Ken’s best friend and pitcher, grits his teeth and looks on,
in the stands Mickey’s sister Aiko, the girl of Ken’s dreams, watches in quiet prayer. The
Japanese crowd grows quiet. The pitch is thrown and to the amazement of the white team Ken
bunts right between the players in the tightened infield and scores the winning run. Game over!
The Asahi have won! The Japanese community is ecstatic; fireworks and joyous celebrations
reverberate throughout their neighborhood. The Asahi go on to rack up an impressive series of
wins dominating the Vancouver city league. Then on 7 December 1941, the Japanese attack
Pearl Harbour. One month later Ken and his family are rounded up and removed to an
internment camp in the interior of British Columbia. Mickey, Aiko and their family are sent to
another camp. Ken’s family is devastated; their home and belongings have been seized and
what’s left is contained in two small suitcases. Their new home is a tarpaper shack with no water,
no electricity, and no plumbing. The familiar quarreling from Ken’s mom and dad has turned to a
painful silence. As morale within the camp deteriorates, the camp commander tricks the
Japanese into designing and building a ball diamond. Ken and his friends throw themselves into
the work. Their spirits are raised and in no time the diamond looks fantastic, precision built and to
exact dimensions. But, when the Japanese team arrives to play on the new diamond the camp
commander is on hand to deliver the devastating news. The diamond isn’t for them but for the
camp commander son’s ball team, the Lumber Kings. Ken’s initial rejection turns to defiance. He
is determined to create a team that can challenge and defeat the Lumber Kings. But Ken’s
players, though they look up to Ken, their Asahi hero, do not have the skills of the Asahi, and
unfortunately, “brainball” is an art not easily mastered by this makeshift team.
The challenge is
issued to the Lumber Kings who pounce on the opportunity to teach the Japanese a lesson in
humility. The stage is set; the two foes face each other, Japanese versus the White guys, on the
only field where the Japanese are equals. History is repeating itself, but this time former Asahi
baseball star Ken Kutsukake is fighting for the survival of the only thing that matters to the
Japanese, the only thing they have left. Hope. Humorous, sorrowful, and powerfully moving,
Rising Sun tells the incredible story of Ken, his childhood friend, Mickey Sato, and Mickey’s
suddenly-grown sister, Aiko. A story of racism, war, class, first love, and…baseball.
Prod: Bob Crowe, Wally Start. Writer: Peter Lauterman, Jari Osbourne. FP: Vision TV.
Bc: Vision TV.
Sisters in Spirit
Y’utthe Askiy Productions Ltd. DVCAM. 60 min.
Sisters in Spirit is an intensive one hour documentary about the murdered and missing Aboriginal
women in Canada. It explores reasons why they have disappeared and circumstances
surrounding some of the disappearances. We profile two families who are experiencing the grief
associated with the trauma of losing a loved one. We will profile one family whose ongoing search
and one family who has found the terrible news that their missing loved one was murdered. We
will talk to agencies such as Native Women's Association of Canada and Saskatchewan
Aboriginal Women's Circle Corporation and their work in assisting the dilemma of Aboriginal
women. Questions and reoccurring themes will be identified such as "Why did it take so long to
begin the search for Missing Aboriginal women?" and what are they doing now.
Dir/Writer: Angie Campbell. Prod: Deborah Charles. EP: Lioz Bouganin. DOP: Derek Gale.
Host/Narrator: Nola Wuttunne. Researcher: Barb Frazer. Consultant: Judy Hughes. FP: SCN,
SaskFilm and Video Development Corporation, CTF. Bc: SCN.
Sisters in Spirit. Y’utthe Askiy Productions Ltd.
Sisters in Spirit. Y’utthe Askiy Productions Ltd.
The Last Crossing
Minds Eye Entertainment. Feature Film
Based on Guy Vanderhaeghe’s best selling novel of the same name, The Last Crossing is a true
western tale. Charles and Addington Gaunt leave Victorian England to travel to the North
American frontier in search of their brother, Simon, who came to Montana to bring religion to the
Indians. Lucy Stoveall who is out to avenge her sister’s murder arrives with Civil War veteran
Custis Straw who loves Lucy, and his loyal friend, Aloysius Dooley. They hire Jerry Potts, a halfBlackfoot half-Scot to be their guide.
Prod: Kevin DeWalt. Writer: Rob King. EP: Kevin DeWalt
The Plunderers
4 Square Productions Ltd. HD. 8 x 50 min.
This eight part series chronicles the skullduggery and thievery of explorers, adventurers,
diplomats and clerics as they pillaged the cultural artifacts of other civilizations. Come with us as
we travel remote places in China, Cambodia, Greece, Alaska and Canada to expose these
plunderers and the steps being taken today to redress this evil.
EP: Gerald Sperling. Writer: Maggie Siggins. FP: 4 Square Entertainment Ltd.
The Secret of the Sinking
In Time Productions.
This somewhat fictional account of why the Titanic really sank shows how mankind has come so
far technologically over the past 100 years but also how we're destroying ourselves in the
process. Features Special Guest Star Millvina Dean, the last living survivor of the Titanic, in her
acting debut.
Dir/Prod/Writer: Christopher Hahn. Editing Consultant: Stacy Muller.
Two innocents in the Orient
4 Square Entertainment Ltd. HD. 6 x 50 min.
Talk about culture shock. These two young adventurers have never experienced anything like it.
Carrie-May Siggins is the daughter of an academic and a writer; Michael Scholar Jr. is the son of
a physician and drama professor. Both were raised in protective families in the peaceful city of
Regina. She is writer and avant-garde documentarist with an MA in journalism; he is an actor,
singer, dancer and comedian with many awards to his credit. Together they will tackle a most
daring project. They will live in the most remote villages of China, not with the majority Han
people, but with the fascinating minorities – the Zang, Dai, Mongols, the Hezhen and Miao, and
the Uygurs. Each group has its own very distinct culture and way of life, and very few people in
the Western world are aware of them.
Prod: Gerald B. Sperling. Writer: Maggie Siggins. DOP: Owen Jin. FP: 4 Square
Entertainment Ltd.
Wapos Bay The Series, Episodes 20-26
Wapos Bay Productions. 7 x 24 min. Children’s Series. HD.
The kids of Wapos Bay love adventure.
And their playground is a vast area that’s been home to their Cree ancestors for millennia:
northern Saskatchewan.
Ten-year-old T-Bear, 9-year-old Talon and 6-year-old Raven star in Wapos Bay, a light-hearted
stop-motion animation series about growing up in a remote Cree community. In Wapos Bay,
modern life and ancient traditions meet. Hunting and gathering, dog sledding and shimmering
northern lights are part of everyday life but so are video games, TV and cell phones. Guided by
elders, extended family and their own insatiable curiosity, the three children learn how to balance
traditional ways with newer ones. Their discoveries unfold against the backdrop of northern
Saskatchewan’s varied seasons – winter, spring thaw, spring, summer, fall and freeze-up.
As they explore the world around them, the three children acquire come valuable lessons about
respect, cooperation, honestly and tolerance. And of course, they also teach the adults a few
things.
Dir: Dennis Jackson, Melanie Jackson. Prod: Dennis Jackson, Melanie Jackson, Anand
Ramayya. Writer: Dennis Jackson, Melanie Jackson, Trevor Cameron. DOP: Andrew Forbes.
FP: Development Funding - APTN, SaskFilm, Canadian Television Fund, Production Funding APTN, SCN, Canadian Television Fund, Independent Production Fund. Bc: APTN, SCN.
Wicked City
Minds Eye Entertainment, Stallion Media Inc. Feature Film.
A live-action feature film based on the Japanese anime series Wicked City.
Prod: Kevin DeWalt, Oliver Hengst, Elizabeth Wang-Lee. Writer: Michael Hartmann
Wise High Guys
Angel Entertainment. Feature Film. 35mm.
The Wise High Guys is an original, character driven, high concept comedy based on the story of
a group of ill-fated men, who desire to get more respect. Guy has always dreamed of having
credibility but ever since playing on a high school football team that failed to score a single point,
he and his friends have been the object of ridicule in their small city. They all feel destined to be
losers the rest of their lives until a fated trip by Guy to visit his uncle results in a plan: Guy gets
members of the old losing team together and with a little help from his Scottish-Italian cousin,
Marco, they try to establish their own local “Mafia”, albeit a Mafia with a conscience. Through a
few twists and turns ending in a riotous courtroom finale, the Wise High Guys become unlikely
local heroes, and Guy even wins the girl of his dreams.
Dir: Alan Goluboff. Prod: Bob Crowe, Wally Start, Avi Federgreen. Writer: Mark Melymick.
FP: Telefilm, SaskFilm.
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PRE-PRODUCTION
Best of Festival
Minds Eye Entertainment. 52 min. Television Special.
A showcase of the best comedic performances of the 2008 Canadian Comedy Awards being held
in Regina in October 2008.
Prod: Kevin DeWalt.
EP: Kevin DeWalt, Tim Progosh. Writer: Tim Progosh. DOP: Layton
Burton. Technical Director: Ernie Steinhubl. FP: CTV, CTF, SFETC, CPTC. Bc: Comedy
Network
Mindfield
Juxtapose Productions Inc. 13 x 30 min.
Documentary Series. HD
Thirteen-part documentary series that looks at discoveries in the Science and Technology fields.
Dir: Stephen Hall. Prod: Sandra Panko. EP: Dennis Hrapchuk. Writer: Cam Bennett,
Stephen Hall. DOP: Ian Rogers, Peter Christensen. FP: SCN, SaskFilm Tax Credit, CAVCO
Ad: Fall 2009. Bc: SCN.
Silent Bombs: All for the Motherland
Four Square Entertainment Ltd. 60+90 min. HD.
From 1949 to 1989 the Soviet Union exploded 460 nuclear bombs in eastern Kazakhstan. About
200,000 villagers living within 45 kilometers of the test site, the “Polygon,” were exposed to high
levels of radiation. Not only were they not protected but they were treated as human guinea pigs,
instruments of study in the event the cold war turned into nuclear war. The devastation from this
planned catastrophe continues today.
Dir: Rob King. Prod: Joanne Levy, Maggie Siggins. EP: Gerald Sperling, Joanne Levy.
Writer: Carrie-May Siggins. DOP: Matt Phillips. FP: SCN, NHK, Al Jazeera English, Hifi HD,
SuperChannel, Saskatchewan and CAVCO tax credits.
The Hidden World of the Harem
Partners in Motion / Fleetwood Films. 2 x 60 min.
It is a story of passion, politics and power set in the most secret place of the Ottoman Empire the Sultan's Harem. This docudrama weaves a tale of the slave trading and sensuality, fierce
battles and fabulous wealth, of Holy Wars and conquest. This 2x60 special unfolds the rise and
decline of the Ottoman Empire through the untold stories of the women of the imperial harem.
Dir: David Rabinovitch. Prod: Jeff Stecyk. EP: Ron Goetz. Bc: Vision TV/History UK.
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IN PRODUCTION
Go Run
In Time Productions.
Inspired by Forest Gump, Chris sets off on a world-wide run where he passes by famous
landmarks which include Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower, Roman Coliseum, Sphinx/pyramids etc.
with no people shown in the shots. "Getting no people in the shots was hard and took a lot of
patience. Sometimes I'd literally stand out there for days waiting to get a clear shot. Although it
was very time consuming, it is quite a unique film because this project shows at a given time, no
matter where you're at in the world, there is no people around."
Dir/Prod/Writer: Christopher Hahn. Editing Consultant: Stacy Muller.
In Time
In Time Film Productions. 47 min.
This movie is based in part(s) on a true story. Dean Roberts is a struggling New York actor who
makes a tough living as the sparring partner for the heavyweight champion of the world. After his
agent gets him a part in a major Hollywood picture, he comes to LA poor in wealth but rich in
spirit. He then meets Kelly, the only daughter of an investment banker and they immediately fall
in love. Kelly’s father disapproves of the relationship from the start and uses his connections to
try and have Dean run out of LA. Will Dean and Kelly’s love prevail or will this be just another
tragic tale in the city of broken hearts and shattered dreams?
Dir/Writer/DOP/EP/Prod: Chris Hahn. Post film meeting with Steven Spielberg in Los Angeles.
Host/Star: Introduction by Jay Leno (The Tonight Show), Leanne Johnson, George Alexander,
Ryan O’Neal (Love Story), Gloria Stuart (Titanic) – cameos by Jack Nicholson, Lawrence Taylor,
Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Hasim Rahman, John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever), Amilcar
Prime, Stacy Muller, Derek Nestor. Also starring: Corey Feldman (Stand By Me). FP: Selffinanced.
In Time. In Time Film Productions.
Next Year Country
Ice Cube Factory. D8/Mini DV + DVD. 15-20 min.
The video overlays past and present. Through the use of letters written in 1906 and oral
memories of seniors, a youthful optimism of a people and a newly created province is
compared with one possible present/future. This is anything but bright. It is rather an end lying in
death and decay.
Dir/Prod: Elaine Pain, Darryl Miller. EP/DOP/Writer: Elaine Pain.
The Cumberland Delta
291 Film Company. 48 min. HDCam.
An exploration of the natural landscape of the Cumberland Delta: its significance and the
importance of its preservation.
Dir/DOP: Ian Toews. Prod/Writer: Ian Toews, Cam Koroluk. FP: SCN, Oasis HD, Canadian
Television Fund, Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit, Canadian Film or Video Production
Tax Credit. Ad: April 2009. Bc: SCN, Oasis HD.
The Path to Shaolin
Zoot Capri Entertainment Inc. Documentary.
60 min. HD.
Timothy Mrazek is about to take an extraordinary journey. He has been preparing for it his entire
adult life. It is a philosophical journey, a spiritual journey, and a journey into another culture. Tim
Mrazek is about to become the first Canadian to be ordained through the Chung Wah
International Shaolin program as a warrior monk at the Shaolin temple in China.
Dir/EP/Prod/Writer: Leif Kaldor, Leslea Mair. DOP: Ian Rogers. Host/Star: Timothy Mrazek.
FP: SCN, CIFVF.
The Path to Shaolin. Zoot Capri Entertainment Inc.
The Side Show Christmas
Side Show Christmas Productions Inc. 48 min. Animation.
Sandwell Shanks, owner of the Most Unbelievable Show on Earth, a run down Side Show,
hypnotizes Santa Clause in a mad cap scheme to save his business from foreclosure. Success at
the Side Show comes at the cost of Christmas for Children all over the world and it is up to
Shank’s son Jason, with a little help from his friends at the Side Show and the North Pole, to save
Christmas.
Dir/Prod: Tim Tyler. Writer: Jeff Martel. EP: Chris Bartleman, Blair Peters.
FP: Teletoon, CTF BPE, Tax Credits (SK, BC, Can), Private Investment. Ad: Christmas 2008.
Bc: Teletoon Canada
The Side Show Christmas. Side Show Christmas Productions Inc.
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SERIES IN PRODUCTION
Bull’s, Buckles and Bruises
Juxtapose Productions Inc. 10 x 30 min. HD.
10 part series that follows the Canadian Pro Rodeo Tour in 2008.
Dir/DOP: Jon Pander. Prod/EP: Dennis Hrapchuk. FP: Adrenaline HD, SaskFilm Tax Credit,
CAVCO. Ad: Spring 2009. Bc: Rush HD.
CHOICES: Planning for The Aging Process – 2nd Season
“TLC” Concepts and Productions Ltd. 13x30 min.
The Series continues to examine choices available to mature adults as they age.
Prod/Writer/Host/Star: Kaaras Tiffin. EP: SHAW. FP: Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax
Credit and Corporate Sponsors. Ad: January 2009. Bc: SHAW/Access Saskatchewan.
CHOICES: Planning for The Aging Process – 2nd Season. “TLC” Concepts and Productions Ltd.
Crime Stories: Season VII
Partners In Motion. 60 min.
Crime Stories takes the viewers behind the scenes with those who record criminal investigations
up close - on film, on paper, and on tape. These first-hand accounts, coupled with reenactments,
news footage, and photographs paint a comprehensive picture of the grim truth.
Dir: Steve Allen. Prod: Regan Kirkland. EP: Ron Goetz.
Bc: History Television, A&E
Biography.
Drug Class – Season II
Cooper Rock Pictures Inc. 13 x 30 min.
Documentary Series.
Drug Class - Season II follows six kids with varying levels of drugs and alcohol consumption, as
they work to reduce their dependencies. Their stories will be interwoven with Rand Teed's drug
classes, his counseling sessions with them, their everyday lives and their personal diary cams.
The interviews with both the kids and their families will be candid as they discuss their ups and
downs, their struggles and victories. Drug Class - Season II will have the same style, tone and
approach as Drug Class - Season I.
Dir: Stephen Hall. Prod: Lori Kuffner. DOP: Terryll Loffler. Story Consultant: Rand Teed.
FP: Funding and assistance for this project provided by SCN, Shaw Rocket Fund,
Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit, Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit. Bc: SCN.
I Prophesy: The Future Revealed
Partners in Motion. 30 min.
I Prophesy is a stunning new series that explores the future as seen through the eyes of today's
prophets. However, these visionaries have changed. No longer are they the holy mystics of
centuries ago; now they are the scientists, economists, military and political analysts, and futurists
and survivalists who share their personal insights into the world of tomorrow.
Dir: Stephen Hall. Prod: Lisa Donahue. EP: Ron Goetz. Bc: Vision TV.
Landscape as Muse, V (5-46 to 5-51)
291 Films Company. 6 x 24 min. HDCam.
Landscape as Muse showcases both the world-class artists and spectacular landscapes that are
found in Canada. Following the artist’s gaze, this beautiful cinematic series examines the
inspirational relationship that exists between art and landscape.
Dir/Prod/DOP: Ian Toews. Writer: Ian Toews, Jason Nielsen. FP: SCN, Knowledge Network,
Canadian Television Fund, Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, Saskatchewan Film
Employment Tax Credit, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. Ad: March 1, 2009
Bc: SCN, Knowledge Network.
Little Mosque on the Prairie, Season III
WestWind Pictures Ltd. 20 x 30 min. Comedy Series. HD.
Little Mosque on the Prairie, CBC Television’s breakout hit situation comedy, is about a small
Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy. The series takes an unabashedly funny
look at the congregation of a rural mosque and their attempt to live in harmony with each other,
and with the often skeptical, even downright suspicious, residents of their little prairie town.
Dir: Michael Kennedy, Jim Allodi, Brian Roberts, Zarqa Nawaz. Prod: Michael Snook, Colin
Brunton. EP: Clark Donnelly, Mary Darling, Michael Snook, Al Magee, Robert Sheridan
Writer: Robert Sheridan, Zarqa Nawaz, Greg Eckler, Claire Ross Dunn, Vera Santamaria, Miles
Smith, Jason Belleville, Cole Bastedo. DOP: Mark Dobrescu. Host/Star: Carlo Rota, Sheila
McCarthy, Zaib Shaikh, Sitara Hewitt, Manoj Sood, Arlene Duncan, Derek McGrath, Debra
McGrath, Neil Crone, Aliza Vellani. FP: CBC, WestWind Releasing Inc., SFETC, CAVCO,
OMDC. Ad: October 1, 2008. Bc: CBC.
Lives & Letters
Gordon Pepper – Executive Producer. 4 x 5 min. HD.
Lives & Letters is a series of short films based on important historic Saskatchewan letters
gathered from provincial archive holdings. The first completed film "To Robert Gordon" is based
on a letter written by Louis Riel to his jailer Robert Gordon just days before Riel's execution.
Dir/EP: Gordon Pepper. Prod/Writer: Cheryl Avery, Kathy Szalaznyj. DOP: Shayne Metcalfe.
FP: Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists, Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative
Miywayawin
Blue Hill Productions. 13 x 30 min. HD
13 - 1/2 hours addressing health and lifestyle issues in the aboriginal community
Prod: Doug Cuthand, Linda Hepp-Davis Dir/Writer: Doug Cuthand. DOP: Glen Markwart
Host: Monica Goulet, Carrie Shingoose. FP: APTN , CTF, Federal and Provincial Tax Credits.
Bc: APTN.
The Re-Inventors III
Partners in Motion. 30 min.
Join Re-Inventors Matt Hunter and Jeremy MacPherson as they dig up strange inventions from
history and bring them back to life. Each half hour episode features a different invention. Some
succeed, some fail. And quite a bit gets blown up in the process.
Dir: Chris Triffo. Prod: Jamie Anderson. EP: Ron Goetz. Host/Star: Matt Hunter, Jeremy
MacPherson. Bc: CW Television
What’s Around The Next Bend
Minds Eye Entertainment. 13 x 30 min. Documentary Series.
This is the story of two friends embarking on a remarkable personal journey far from home.
Adrian Traquair and his good friend Dustin Corkery are just two regular guys from the small city of
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Driven by a sense of adventure and excitement they travel half
way around the world to embark on a life-changing journey of discovery. From the waterway of
one of the world’s largest and holiest rivers, they will grow to gain a greater understanding of
themselves and the world as they slowly raft down the mystic Ganges river through the very heart
of India.
Dir/DOP/Cast: Adrian Traquair, Dustin Corkery. Prod: Mark Montague. EP: Kevin Dewalt.
FP: Minds Eye Entertainment.
What’s Around The Next Bend. Minds Eye Entertainment.
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POST-PRODUCTION
Angels in Flight
Blue Hill Productions. 60 min. HD.
History of Saskatchewan Air Ambulance since February 1946.
Dir/Writer: Doug Cuthand. Prod: Doug Cuthand, Linda Hepp-Davis. DOP: George Hupka.
FP: SCN, Federal and Provincial Tax Credits. Bc: SCN.
Cold Driven
Juxtapose Productions Inc. 6 x 30 min. HD.
Six part series that follows the Canadian Pro Snowcross Racing Association as it travels to six
stops on the tour.
Dir/DOP: Jon Pander. Prod/EP: Dennis Hrapchuk. Writer: Jon Pander, Ken Williams, Sarah
Vermette. FP: Adrenaline HD, SaskFilm Tax Credit, CAVCO. Ad: Winter 2008/09. Bc: Rush
HD.
Dolan’s Cadillac
Minds Eye Entertainment. 93 min. Feature Film. 35mm.
Based on one of Stephen King’s most suspenseful short stories, Dolan’s Cadillac is a suspense
thriller in the vein of The Dead Zone, and The Secret Window. Tom Robinson (Wes Bentley) is a peaceful, law-abiding schoolteacher. When his bride Elizabeth
(Emmanuelle Vaugier) accidentally witnesses a murder, he finds himself on a road straight to hell.
The killer is Jimmy Dolan (Christian Slater), Las Vegas’ most ruthless and untouchable mob boss.
Elizabeth agrees to testify against him and soon we find out just why Dolan has remained
untouched… Anyone who dares to go up against him faces deadly consequences. In Elizabeth’s
case, a bomb strapped to the bottom of a car.
Devastated by her death, Robinson is driven to construct an elaborate and dangerous plan.
When the two men finally meet deep in the heart of the desert, Dolan’s Cadillac climaxes with an
amazing test of wills - the ultimate duel in the sun. The Cadillac, which has been Dolan’s armor,
may just as easily become his tomb. This is Vengeance, Stephen King Style.
Dir: Jeff Beesley.
Prod: Rhonda Baker, Stephen Onda, Alain Gagnon. EP: Kevin DeWalt,
Ellen Wander. Writer: Richard Dooling. DOP: Gerald Packer. Cast: Christian Slater,
Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley, Cory Genereoux, Vivian Ng. FP: Film Bridge, Prescience
Media, Footprint, Minds Eye Entertainment, CPTC, SFETC.
Grace
Minds Eye Entertainment, Leomax Entertainment, Ariescope Pictures.
92 min. Feature Film. 35mm
Based on Paul Solet’s award-winning short film of the same name, Grace is a feature-length
unforgettable emotional and psychological journey into terror as a young woman is forced to
make the ultimate motherly sacrifice when the stillborn child she carried to term returns to life with
a horrifying appetite.
Madeline Matheson is an ordinary woman who faces tragic and unexpected loss until she
experiences the unparalleled force of motherly love, a power so strong it can overcome even
death. But nothing comes without a price…
Dir: Paul Solet. Prod: Kevin DeWalt, Ingo Vollkammer, Cory Neal, Adam Green.
EP: Scott
Einbinder, Simon Edery. Writer: Paul Solet. DOP: Zoran Popovic. Cast: Jordan Ladd, Kate
Herriot. FP: Leomax, Minds Eye Entertainment, SFETC, PSTC, FIDEC
Hollywood (Saskatchewan)
Minds Eye Entertainment. 13 x 30 min. Documentary Series.
Hollywood (Saskatchewan) is a 13-part documentary series that takes an in-depth behind-thescenes look at the creation of a number of influential and diverse projects, and the people from
past to present that helped shape and build Saskatchewan’s expanding film and television
industry.
Dir/Prod: Mark Montague. EP: Kevin Dewalt. DOP: Various FP: SCN, Saskatchewan Film
Employment Tax Credit, CPTC, Canadian Television Fund, Minds Eye International.
Ad: Jan 2009.
Hollywood (Saskatchewan. Minds Eye Entertainment, 181 Horizon Productions Inc.
Hybrid (aka Hunter)
Minds Eye Entertainment, Stallion Media. 100 Min. Feature Film . Red One Camera System
Each day people disappear without a trace. Tonight is no exception.
A seemingly mundane Chevy Nova, a crime scene car, arrives at the Chicago police garage.
TILDA MEDINA, an automotive mechanic with a tortured past reports to her job on the night shift
at the garage. What starts as another routine shift for Tilda and her colleagues proves to be a
harrowing night when they are confronted with the automotive hunter.Tilda witnesses Al as being
consumed by a car. She tells everyone about the horrifying encounter, but no one believes her
because of her haunted past. She insists to everyone she’s not crazy, when suddenly a different
car, a station wagon, silently approaches them.
The crew figures out that the ‘hunter’ car is a clever and intelligent being. It has the ability to
shapeshift and transform itself into various car types for whatever the purpose might be.
The fantastic discovery prompts Ray to exploit the potential commercial value of their discovery.
Despite Tilda’s pleas, they plan a capture rather than a safe escape. Tilda realizes that capturing
it is no longer an option and their window for escape has long since passed. They have to kill
their predator or die trying.
Dir: Eric Valette. Prod: Kevin DeWalt, Oliver Hengst, Elizabeth Wang-Lee, Tim Kwok.
EP: Alex Leung, Tim McGrath and Christian Arnold-Beutel. Writer: Neal Marshall Stevens.
DOP: John Leonetti. Camera Operator: Ken Krawczyk. Host/Cast: Shannon Beckner, Oded
Fehr, Alden Adair, Josh Straight. FP: Stallion Media, Minds Eye Entertainment, SFETC, PSTC.
AD: TBD
InJustice
Dacian Productions Inc. HDV. 13 x 30 min.
They wait in the shadow of the grain elevator, in the winter air of a small prairie town, in the worn
back roads that lead you to unfamiliar places. They wait in the laugh of the neighbors you
thought you knew so well, in the glow of the bright city lights, in the stones of a small town’s main
street. These stories may be hidden, they may be lost or forgotten – but once you find them, they
will haunt you.
The Canadian West possesses many such stories – true tales of justice and injustice. InJustice
will explore these tales, with a particular focus on the human beings behind the crimes. These
crime stories will have the dramatic flavour of fictional crime programs, but with the evocative
impact of historical fact.
In Justice is a 13 x 30 minute documentary series detailing actual crimes that took place within
this province. This series will explore each crime in a non-linear fashion – cutting from the past,
to the present, to the historical conditions that led to such acts. The format itself will create a
sense of mystery; viewers will solve the crime as the authorities themselves do. Such storytelling
will keep the audience hooked until the very end. It will also allow for a decidedly human element
within the crime stories. The series will be edgy, suspenseful, and dramatic.
Dir/EP: Jarrett Rusnak. Prod: Chantel Owens. Writer: Jeff Martel, Karen Martel. DOP: Amber
Slonski. FP: SCN, CTF, SFETC, CAVCO.
Bc: SCN.
InJustice. Dacian Productions Inc.
InJustice. Dacian Productions Inc.
Landing: Stories from the Cultural Divide – Season II
Landing Season 2 Inc. 13 x 24 min. HD.
Landing: Stories from the Cultural Divide is an award winning 13-part half hour documentary
series which tells personal stories of Canadians with diverse backgrounds. Insightful and
reflective, Landing intimately explores the lives of our characters, sharing the current and
historical events that have shaped their lives and our world.
Part ‘verite’, part traditional documentary, Landing accompanies diverse Canadians as they
transition from one stage of life to the next. We are there as they overcome challenges and
search for a grounded identity in a complex and fast changing world where cultures, beliefs and
ideas collide.
Landing is a cross-platform television series targeted at high school students and family
audiences. Go to http://www.landingtv.ca for more information.
Dir/Writer: Aidin Nakhai, Thomas Hale, Jeff Pufahl, Ray Ramayya, Lisa Unrau, Ryan Lockwood.
Prod: Anand Ramayya, Ryan Lockwood. DOP: Thomas Hale. FP: SCN, SaskFilm, Canadian
Television Fund, Canadian Heritage, Saskatchewan Intercultural Association, SIAST – Job Start
Future Skills, SFETC, CPTC. Bc: SCN
Mad Cow Sacred Cow
Karmafilm. 60 min. HD.
A compelling and quirky investigation into Mad Cows and Sacred Cows takes Indo-Canadian
filmmaker Anand Ramayya (Cosmic Current) on a journey from the heart of cattle country in
Western Canada to India, the land of the Sacred Cow.
What emerges is a humorous, bizarre and often sobering story of globalization, where Mad Cows
and Sacred Cows become symbols of sustainable and non-sustainable systems both affecting
the future of small farmers and perhaps the world.
Dir/Writer/Host/Star: Anand Ramayya. Prod: Anand Ramayya, Ryan Lockwood. DOP: Thomas
Hale. FP: CBC Television, SCN, Knowledge Network, SaskFilm, Canadian Television Fund,
Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, Rogers Documentary Fund, SFETC, CPTC.
Bc: CBC, SCN, Knowledge.
Rabbit Fall – Season II
Angel Entertainment. 8 x 30 min. HD
Violent Crimes and unexplained events have some believing a supernatural force is at work in the
remote northern town of Rabbit Fall. Métis cop Tara Wheaton rejects the theories but as the
bodies pile up, Rabbit Fall tears away at everything she knows to be true. Could these bizarre
deaths connect to something bigger than this town?
Dir: Luke Hutton, Alan Goluboff, Stephen Hall, Rob King. Prod: Bob Crowe, Wally Start,
Jennifer Podemski. Writer: Joadie Jurgova, Bob Crowe, Luke Hutton, Jennifer Podemski,
Trevor Cameron, Mike Gosselin, Peter Lauterman. DOP: Darryl Kesslar.
Host/Star: Andrea Menard, Kevin Jubinville, Peter Kelly Gaudreault, Tinsel Korey, Patrick Bird.
FP: Space, APTN, SCN, SaskFilm MAX Equity Fund, CTF. Ad: Fall 2008 (Bc: Space, APTN),
Fall 2009 (Bc: SCN).
The Shortcut
Minds Eye Entertainment, Leomax Entertainment, Happy Madison. 95 min. Feature Film. HD
A shortcut through the woods saved a lot of time getting to school, but no kids growing up in a
suburban neighborhood dared to take it. The trail ran within sight of a scary house with an eerie
old man who would accost its travelers with an ominous message to stay away. Town legend
said he was involved in the disappearances of some kids long ago. Now that some of those
same kids are in their late teens, they decide to find out the truth about the old man after they
learn he’s still at his game. What they shockingly discover is the old man’s long-lost brother
tethered to the house on a long chain like a dog. Much to their demise, the teens mistake the
chained man as a hostage and realize only too late that he is the brutal killer from the past.
Dir: Nicholaus Goossen. Prod: Kevin DeWalt, Ingo Vollkammer, Scott Einbinder, Brian Witten,
Scott Sandler. EP: Phil Fier, Simon Edery. Writer: Dan Hannon, Scott Sandler. DOP: Mark
Irwin. Cast: Andrew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco, Wendy Anderson, Kent Allen.
FP: Leomax, Minds Eye Entertainment, SFETC, PSTC, FIDEC
Walled In
Minds Eye Entertainment / Experience Films / Forecast Pictures. A Canada-France Coproduction. 90 min. feature.
Psychological Thriller - A young woman gets more than she bargained for when she travels to a
remote location to supervise the demolition of a mysterious building. She soon discovers the
horrifying secrets of the building and its past inhabitants, many of whom were victims of a vicious
murderer who entombed his prey alive within the walls of the building. Now she must turn the
tables on the killer before she becomes his latest victim.
Dir: Rodolphe Tissot, Olivier Volpi, Sylvain White, Gilles Paquet-Brenner. EP: Scott Einbinder,
Simon Edery. Prod: Kevin DeWalt, Clement Miserez, Jean-Charles Levy, Stephane Marsil, Ingo
Vollkammer. Writer: Gilles Paquet-Brenner. DOP: Karim Hussain. Host/Star: Misha Barton,
Cameron Bright, Deborah Kara Unger. FP: Leomax Entertainment.
Wapos Bay The Series, Episodes 14-19
Wapos Bay Productions Episodes 14-19 Inc. 6 x 24 min. Children’s Series. HD.
The kids of Wapos Bay love adventure. And their playground is a vast area that’s been home to
their Cree ancestors for millennia: northern Saskatchewan.
Ten-year-old T-Bear, 9-year-old Talon and 6-year-old Raven star in Wapos Bay, a light-hearted
stop-motion animation series about growing up in a remote Cree community. In Wapos Bay,
modern life and ancient traditions meet. Hunting and gathering, dog sledding and shimmering
northern lights are part of everyday life but so are video games, TV and cell phones. Guided by
elders, extended family and their own insatiable curiosity, the three children learn how to balance
traditional ways with newer ones. Their discoveries unfold against the backdrop of northern
Saskatchewan’s varied seasons – winter, spring thaw, spring, summer, fall and freeze-up.
As they explore the world around them, the three children acquire come valuable lessons about
respect, cooperation, honestly and tolerance. And of course, they also teach the adults a few
things.
Aboriginal filmmakers Dennis and Melanie Jackson’s exquisite characters come alive with the
voices of well-known Aboriginal performers such as Gordon Tootoosis (North of 60, Legends of
the Fall), Andrea Menard (The Velvet Devil) and Lorne Cardinal (Corner Gas). Wapos Bay is a
fascinating, and often humorous portrait of a northern Aboriginal community from the perspective
of its children.
Dir: Dennis Jackson, Melanie Jackson, Cam Lizotte. Prod: Dennis Jackson, Melanie Jackson,
Anand Ramayya, Derek Mazur. Writer: Dennis Jackson, Melanie Jackson, Trevor Cameron.
DOP: Andrew Forbes. Host/Star: Gordon Tootoosis, Andrea Menard, Lorne Cardinal
FP: APTN, SCN, National Film Board of Canada, SaskFilm, CTF, Shaw Rocket Fund, SIAST –
Job Start Future Skills, Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit, Canada Production Tax
Credit.
Bc: APTN, SCN
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IN THE CAN
45 RPM
Nomadic Pictures, Don Carmody Productions, Karma Film Inc. 91 min.
In the fall of 1960, fifteen year old Parry Tender doesn’t know where to turn. Small town life is
driving him crazy and a precocious girl who looks and acts more like a boy wants to be his
girlfriend. When a fluke atmospheric condition allows a fifty thousand watt Manhattan radio station
pump its infectious rock’n’roll signal into Canada’s far north, winning a radio contest may be
Parry’s only way out.
Dir/Writer: Dave Schultz. Prod: Mike Frislev, Chad Oakes. Co-Prod: Anand Ramayya.
EP: Don Carmody. DOP: Craig Wrobleski. Host/Star: Michael Madsen, Amanda Plummer,
Kim Coates, August Schellenberg. FP: TMN, Movie Central, CHUM, APTN, SCN, Corus, Shaw
Rocket Fund, SIAST-Job Start Future Skills, SFETC, CPTC.
A Few Good Men & Women
Agitprop Films and Zima Juction Productions. 7 x 48 min. HD Cam.
A Few Good Men & Women is a documentary series following recruit candidates through their
rigorous recruit competition, the demanding recruit training at Saskatchewan Police College, and
their first few months serving on the streets as new constables in Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw
and Estevan.
Dir: Robin Schlaht. Prod: Robin Schlaht, David Christensen. FP: SCN, Access Television,
CLT, Court TV, SaskFilm Documentary Fund, CTF, SFETC, PSTC, AFDP.
Art InCLINEd, Season ll
Juxtapose Productions Inc. HD. 13x 30 min. HD
Art InCLINEd is a quirky combination of artistic exploration. Host and mixed media artist Heather
Cline takes viewers on a visual and material discovery of art - profiling artists across Western
Canada in their studio at work, then in her own studio environment for a unique creative
encounter.
Dir: Cam Bennett. Prod: Sandra Panko. Host: Heather Cline. DOP: Ian Rogers. Editor: Ken
Williams. Bc: SCN, Treasure HD.
Ayisiniwak ka wicihuwecik- People that Changed Life
Y’utthe Askiy Productions Ltd. 6 x 30 min. DVCAM.
Ayisiniwak ka wicihuwecik- People That Changed Life is a half hour, six part limited edition
series, which examines individuals who positively impacted and changed life significantly in
remote northern islands and other Métis villages, reserves and hamlets spanning from
northeastern Saskatchewan to the far reaching tundra of northern Saskatchewan. Through the
resiliency, determination and strength of character, these important individuals struggled to
achieve momentous successes that affected whole community’s chances for survival. They
struggled through the impacts of catastrophic and unexpected challenges, epidemics, natural
disasters and unfortunate incidents. This series offers stunning portrayals of highly esteemed
universal values, virtues, determination, and commitment with a Northern Métis, Cree and Dene
cultural flavor.
Dir/Prod: Angie Campbell. EP: Lioz Bouganin, Deborah Charles. Writer: Barb Frazer, Vye
Bouvier. DOP: Derek Gale. Music Composer: Mitch Daigneault. FP: APTN, SCN, CTF: LFP,
CTF: EIP, SaskFilm Documentary Fund, SFETC, CFVPTC. Bc: APTN, SCN.
Ayisiniwak ka wicihuwecik- People that Changed Life - Y’utthe Askiy Productions Ltd.
Ayisiniwak ka wicihuwecik- People that Changed Life - Y’utthe Askiy Productions Ltd.
Big Business, Big Union, Small Town
Zoot Capri Entertainment Inc. 60 min. Documentary. HD.
The small, quiet city of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, is caught in the middle of a global battle
between one of the largest unions and the world’s largest corporation – Wal-Mart.
Dir: Leif Kaldor. Prod: Leslea Mair. EP: Kevin Dewalt. DOP: Ian Rogers. Writer: Leslea
Mair. FP: Global Television, A Division of Canwest Mediaworks Inc. Developed with the
participation of SaskFilm Produced with the assistance of the SFETC. Produced with the financial
assistance of the CVTC, Produced with the participation of the CTF.
Big Business, Big Union, Small Town. Zoot Capri Entertainment Inc.
Corner Gas, Season V (Episodes 89 – 107)
Verite Films Inc., 335 Productions Inc. 19 x 30 min. Television Series.
Popular comedian Brent Butt returns to small town Saskatchewan to portray the life he would
have led had he gotten a real job - pumping gas at Corner Gas.
Dir: David Storey, Robert de Lint, Jeff Beesley, Don McCutcheon. Prod: Virginia Thompson.
EP: Brent Butt, David Storey, Virginia Thompson
Writers: Brent Butt, Kevin White, Mark
Farrell, Norm Hiscock, Andrew Carr, Dylan Wertz. DOP: Ken Krawczyk, CSC.
Host/Star: Brent Butt, Gabrielle Miller, Fred Ewanuick, Eric Peterson, Janet Wright, Lorne
Cardinal, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Nancy Robertson. FP: CTV. Ad: Sept 2008 – Apr 2009
Bc: CTV.
Dark One
Ice Cube Factory. 88 min. Beta SP + DVD.
A drug-addicted poet searches for spiritual redemption as he cooks up morphine at the kitchen
table with his Auschwitz survivor mother and pet bird. This brilliant, hallucinatory immersion into
the psyche of Dan Biholar, a soul spiraling into oblivion, pushes the medium of the moving image
about as far as it can go. Biholar vacillates between moments of acute self-awareness, disturbing
darkness, tender sentiment, lyrical inspiration and delusions of grandeur. Award-winning
experimental filmmaker and sound designer Darryl Miller was once in Biholar's shoes. With
unsettling accuracy, Miller sculpts a sensory overload of hypnotic soundscape and half-melted
psychedelic imagery that submerges us in Biholar's altered states. There is no safe distance from
which to observe this visceral blurring between art, psychosis and reality-let's hope our sanity
returns when the lights come back on. http://icecubefactory.blogspot.com.
Dir/Prod: Darryl Miller. EP: Elaine Pain. Writer: Dan Biholar, Darryl Miller. DOP: Darryl
Miller, Elaine Pain. Host/Star: Dan Biholar, Helen Biholar, The bird "Boobaloo." FP: Canada
Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Elaine Pain, Ice Cube Factory, SaskFilm and
Video Development Corporation.
Dark One. Ice Cube Factory.
Drug Class
Cooper Rock Pictures Inc. 13x30 min. Documentary Series.
So you didn’t know teenagers could become alcoholics and drug addicts? Meet Rand Teed, a
drug and alcoholic educator, working with six of his students who are struggling with varying
levels of drug and alcohol consumption.
Their stories are interwoven with his drug classes, his
counseling sessions with them, their everyday lives and their personal diary cams. While some
clean up their act using his method and guidance, not everyone is so lucky.
Dir: Robert Daniel Pytlyk. Prod: Lori Kuffner. DOP: Terryll Loffler. Story Consultant: Rand
Teed. FP: Funding and assistance for this project provided by SCN, Shaw Rocket Fund,
SaskFilm, Saskatchewan Health, Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit, Canadian Film or
Video Tax Credit, Cooperators. Ad: Feb 21, 2008 – ongoing. Bc: SCN.
Guides and Gurus
Four Square Entertainment. 13 x 23 min. HD.
Throughout the world, indigenous communities have always had their doctors. Though they have
never been to medical school, these healers have studied the plants that treat disease, as well as
the ceremonies and philosophies that create good health.
Dir: Maggie Siggins. Prod: Gerald Sperling. EP: Norm Wilkinson, Maggie Siggins
Writer: Rachel Knudsen. Narrator: Shoshana Sperling. Editor: Dean Sauer. FP: Vision TV,
APTN, and SCN
Radical Dreamer: The Passionate Journey of Graham Spry
Radical Dreamer Pictures Inc. 60 min. HD 1080p.
A biography of a little known but very influential Canadian. Graham Spry is known, if at all, as the
"Father of Public Broadcasting." But he is also the most influential citizen of Saskatchewan who
never lived here - he ran Saskatchewan House in London England for the government of this
province from 1947 to 1968. Spry also had a hand in the Independence of India, Standard Oil,
the creation of the CCF, the saving or creation and publishing of Canadian Form, Farmers' Sun,
Canadian Nation, Arts in Canada magazines, getting Norman Bethune on the boat to the Spanish
Revolution, the creation and development of Medicare, Employment Insurance, Canada Pension
and many other Canadian institutions in art, culture and government. Yet he never held a
position in the federal government or civil service. To see his story on the screen is to have a
new understanding of the roots of culture and history in modern Canada.
Dir/Prod: Bruce Steele, Peter Raymont. EP: White Pine Pictures. DOP: George Hupka.
Writer: Bruce Steele. FP: SCN, TVO, Knowledge, Access Alberta, CLT, Canada Council,
CIFVF, CTF.
Medicine Woman
Four Square Entertainment Ltd. 13 x 24 min. HD.
A young doctor’s quest for knowledge leads her through six-continents to learn the health and
wellness secrets of the world’s indigenous cultures.
Dir: Shirley Cheechoo. Prod: Norm Wilkinson. EP: Gerald Sperling, Norm Wilkinson.
Writer: Samy Ringer. DOP: Nick Paton. Host/Star: Michelle White. FP: SCN, VISION, CTFLFP, APTN, Federal Tax Credit, Provincial Tax Credit. Ad: Jan 2007. Bc: Vision TV, APTN,
SCN, HiFi HD and Equator (USA).
Out in the Cold
Amoeba Works. 29:20. Super 16mm Production Format; HD Release Format.
On a freezing night, Soft as Snow and Cold as Ice meet Thomas, a young man in a drunken
stupor, who has been dumped on the outskirts of town. When Thomas suggests the two men
walk back to the city with him, they persuade him to stay the night.
Dir: Colleen Murphy. Prod: Sarah Abbott. Writer: Cheryl Jack. Cinematographer: Ivan
Gekoff, CSC. Host/Star: Gordon Tootoosis, Erroll Kinistino, Mathew Strongeagle. FP: CIFVF;
Java Post Production; William F. White International Inc.; Talking Dog Post and Sound Studios;
SCN; NFB; University of Regina’s Department of Media Production & Studies and Faculty of Fine
Arts; ACTRA Saskatchewan Talent Development Fund; Vertical Sync; SMPIA; Humanities
Research Institute, University of Regina; Indian Communication Arts, First Nations University of
Canada. Ad: June 21, 2009. Bc: SCN
Out in the Cold. Amoeba Works.
Rabbit Fall – Season I
Angel Entertainment. 6 x 30 min. HD.
Rabbit Fall - The Series follows police officer Tara Wheaton, a big-city cop who is transferred to
Rabbit Fall – a fictional northern town on the edge of the boreal forest. On the surface, Rabbit
Fall appears to be a typical small, northern town. But a malevolent force has a grip on the
community, the frightening nature of which Tara only begins to glimpse as she peels away the
town’s dark layers.
Dir: Luke Hutton, Rob King, Tom Hale, Lorne Cardinal. Prod: Bob Crowe, Wally Start, Jennifer
Podemski. Writer: Joadie Jurgova, Jeff Martel. DOP: Matt Phillips. Host/Star: Andrea
Menard, Kevin Jubinville, Booth Savage, Peter Stebbings, Peter Kelly Gaudreault. FP: APTN,
Vision TV, SCN, SaskFilm MAX Equity Investment, CTF Ad: Spring 2008 (SCN), Fall 2007
(APTN), Winter 2008 (Vision TV)
The Perfect Drive, Season ll
Juxtapose Production Inc. 13 x 30 min.
The Perfect Drive visits thirteen golf courses in Saskatchewan. This hosted series discovers the
beauty of each course while playing a round of golf with the club pro along with discovering the
travel and tourism highlights in the area. The show also gives the viewer an opportunity to better
their golf game through segments featuring tips and equipment, etiquette and lessons from a golf
pro.
Dir/DOP: McLeay Upshall. EP: Dennis Hrapchak. Producer: Darren Olso. Host: Brad Grass.
Bc: SCN, Access Alberta, CLT
The Pizza Boy's Amazing Adventures
Bizartech* Productions. Digital. 20 min.
This short film is a re-enactment of funny and unusual incidences I had during my years as a
pizza delivery driver.
Dir/Prod/Writer: Aren Triffo
The Truth Behind Yourself
Cooper Rock Pictures Inc. Documentary Series. 13 x 30 min.
Meet Ellen Goldhar, life coach, who believes the key to finding true happiness is by listening and
trusting our inner voice. In this series, Ellen coaches six individuals with varied goals: Leanne
and Denise have weight issues; Mike needs to regain his voice; Donalda wants to start a
counseling service and foundation for families with extreme disabilities; Desiree wants to start a
business and Katryna weighed down in grief, wants to bury the issue. They all ask the question:
“Can life coaching help?”
Dir: Stephen Hall. Prod: Lori Kuffner. Host/Star: Ellen Goldhar – Life Coach. Camera:
Layton Burton, Micha Dahan, Francois Aubrey, Robert Daniel Pytlyk, Terryl Loffler, Mark
Montague.
FP: Funding and assistance for this project provided by Canadian Learning Television, Canadian
Television Fund, SCN, SaskFilm, Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit, Canadian Film or
Video Tax Credit. Ad: February 2 - April 26, 2008 (ACCESS), March 1 - May 24, 2008 (CLT)