Primitive Entertainment

ne Award for Culture and Entertainment; a Webby Award for Best Individual Documentary; the SXSW Interactive Award for Activism; the Outstanding Film Award at the Berlin Sci-Fi Film Festival; the Grand Prix at the International Science Film Festival, St Petersburg; two Genie awards for Best Short Documentary and Best Feature Length Documentary; multiple Gemini Awards (including Best Performing Arts Series and Best History Program); the Toyota Earth Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival; and an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Nature Programming. Recent productions include Records by Alan Zweig (premiering at VIFF 2021); Borealis (Hot Docs 2021) for TVO, ARTE / ZDF, NHK, and Knowledge Network; Writing The Land, a four part series on Canadian authors for CBC and ARTE / ZDF; Coppers (TIFF 2019); Equator 360, a twelve hour series and VR project for ZDF / ARTE, NHK and Discovery; There Is A House Here (TIFF 2017). In Search of A Perfect World for CBC and ZDF; Spaceship Earth, a five-hour series and feature documentary for NHK, History Television and NHK Enterprises (special presentation at Hot Docs 2016); How To Build A Time Machine (Hot Docs 2016); and The Polar Sea, a ten hour series and VR project for TVO, ARTE / ZDF and Netflix.