Gemini Awards announce nominees
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the nominations for the 25th Annual Gemini Awards, recognizing the year’s best in Canadian English-language television. Several DOCspace members received nominations - congratulations!
This year’s celebrations will be held in Toronto over three nights in November. The Industry Gala Presentations will take place on Tuesday November 2 and Wednesday, November 3 at the Kool Haus Entertainment Complex; the Broadcast Gala will take place on Saturday, November 13 at the historic Winter Garden Theatre and will be broadcast live-to-tape on Global and Showcase.
Following are the nominees for documentary and non-fiction programming (for the complete list visit www.geminiawards.ca):
Best Biography Documentary Program
Genius Within - The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
(White Pine Pictures)
Peter Raymont
Karsh Is History
(Productions Grand Nord)
Ian McLaren
Prokofiev: The Unfinished Diary
(Take 3 Productions Inc., 13 Production (France))
Barbara Barde, Yosif Feygeinberg, Paul Saadoun
Best Cross-Platform Project - Non-Fiction
One Ocean Interactive
(Merit Motion Pictures)
Kevin Glasier, Merit Jensen Carr, Vergil Kanne, Alexandra Rosentreter
TotallyADD.com
(Big Brain Productions Inc.)
Rick Green, Ava Green, James Milward
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
(CTV)
Alon Marcovici, Marc Dinsdale, Mark Silver, Alyson Walker
Licence To Drill
(Pixcom Productions Inc.)
Nicola Merola, Jacquelin Bouchard, Emanuelle Wiecha
Kraft Hockeyville 2010
(CBC)
Lauren Pare, Dayton Pereira, Dan Tavares, Mike Yokota
Best Documentary Series
Aftermath
(Cream Productions)
David W Brady, Larry Bambrick, Christopher Rowley
Down The Mighty River
(Rezolution Pictures)
Christina Fon, Catherine Bainbridge, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb
Licence To Drill
(Pixcom Productions Inc.)
Nicola Merola, Jacquelin Bouchard, Emanuelle Wiecha
The View From Here
(TVO)
Jane Jankovic
Word Travels
(Omni Film Productions Limited)
Deborah Wainwright, Michael Chechik, Brian Hamilton, Heather Hawthorn-Doyle
Best History Documentary Program
Dive Detectives: Edmund Fitzgerald
(yap films)
Elliott Halpern, Pauline Duffy
Manson
(Cineflix, NF-Cineflix (The Family) Inc., Media Productions(The Family)Ltd)
Simon Lloyd, Nick Godwin, Tom Parkhouse, John Vandervelde
Paris 1919
(National Film Board of Canada, 13 Production, Galafilm, Arte France)
Gerry Flahive, Silva Basmajian, Arnie Gelbart, Paul Saadoun
Passage
(PTV Productions, John Walker Productions, National Film Board of Canada)
Andrea Nemtin, Kent Martin, Bill Nemtin, John Walker
Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media - Non-Fiction
Love Letters to the Future
(Xenophile Media Inc.)
Patrick Crowe, Amit Breuer, Thomas Wallner
City Sonic
(City Sonic Inc., Kensington Communications Inc., White Pine Pictures Inc.)
Robert Lang, Janice Dawe, Cameron Mitchell, David Oppenheim, Peter Raymont
Waterlife.nfb.ca
(National Film Board)
Kevin McMahon, Adrian Belina, Gelareh Darabi, Tammy Everts, Brendan Good, Mikko Haapoja, Spencer Hall,
Mark McQuillan, Aaron Morris, Steph Pigott, Pablo Vio
Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series
Capturing Reality
(National Film Board of Canada)
Michelle Van Beusekom
Fire Jammers
(Yap Films)
Elliott Halpern, Pauline Duffy
Live At...
(Live Music Special Productions Inc.)
Joel Stewart, Warren Sulatycky
Nureyev
(Mossanen Productions)
Moze Mossanen, Peter Gentile
Star Portraits
(PTV Productions)
Andrea Nemtin, Ian Dunbar, Theresa Kowall-Shipp
Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program
A Murder Of Crows
(A Murder of Crows Inc, CBC, Arte France)
Susan Fleming
The Great Sperm Race
(Cream Productions, Blink Entertainment Ltd.)
David W Brady, Christopher Rowley
One Ocean: Mysteries of the Deep
(Merit Motion Pictures)
Merit Jensen Carr, Michael Allder, Caroline Underwood
The Plastic Fantastic Brain: Total Recall and the Spotless Mind
(Stornoway Productions)
Paul Kemp, Brian Cotter
The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird and Wired Future
(Title Entertainment Inc.)
John Matlock, Derek Diorio, Frank Taylor
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program
A Dream For Kabul
(InformAction Films Inc., The National Film Board of Canada)
Nathalie Barton, Patricia Bergeron, Yves Bisaillon
Broke.
(ID: Productions Inc.)
Rosie Dransfeld
Reel Injun
(Rezolution Pictures, NFB, CBC News Network)
Christina Fon, Catherine Bainbridge, Ravida Din, Linda Ludwick, Catherine Olsen, Adam Symansky, Ernest Webb
Up Against The Wall
(Stormy Nights Productions Inc., 6663036 Canada Inc. Quebec)
Eileen Thalenberg, Gail McIntyre
Water On The Table
(Water On The Table Inc.)
Liz Marshall
CRAFT SERIES
Best Direction in a Documentary Program
Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge - Reel Injun
Rosie Dransfeld - Broke.
Julian Jones - The Great Sperm Race
Rob King - Silent Bombs: All For the Motherland
Nimisha Mukerji, Philip Lyall - 65_RedRoses
Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Mike Downie - One Ocean - Birth of an Ocean
Leon Laflamme - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Truth and Total War
Jeff Semple - Ancestors In The Attic - Black Market Baby?
Stavros Stavrides, Leslie Lucas, John Westheuser - Licence To Drill - Paydirt
Wendy Trueman - Mega Builders - Big Rig
Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series
Ramachandra Borcar - Karsh Is History
Claude Castonguay, Mona Laviolette - Reel Injun
Jim McGrath - Empire of the Word - The Magic of Reading
Shawn Pierce - The Secret World of Shoplifting
Philip Strong - Cat Ladies
Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series
Jeremy Benning - Manson
Jeremy Benning - The Great Sperm Race
Geoff Lackner - The Plastic Fantastic Brain: Total Recall and the Spotless Mind
Matt Philips - Silent Bombs: All For the Motherland
Ian Toews - Saskatchewan River Delta
Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series
Pavel Chichagov, Chris Mullington - The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird and Wired Future
Barry McMann - Convoy - War Of The Atlantic
Deanna Scriver, Marco Porsia - The Plastic Fantastic Brain: Total Recall and the Spotless Mind
Steve Weslak - Empire of the Word - Forbidden Reading
Sharon Zupancic - Mayday - Lockerbie Disaster
Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series
Steph Carrier, Brian Hamish, Steve Medeiros - Clubland
Cary Ciesielski, Lucas Hart, David j. Taylor - Saskatchewan River Delta
Edward Krupa - Empire of the Word - The Future of Reading
Jo Rossi - Ice Pilots NWT - The Crash
Ron Searles, Rodrigue Amyot, Alan Geldart - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Selling the War
J. Martin Taylor, Jamie Mahaffey - Darwin's Brave New World - Publish and Be Damned
Best Visual Research
Zoe Barraclogh, Mia Webster - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Truth and Total War
Gina Cali - One Ocean - Birth of an Ocean
Elizabeth Klinck, Laura Blaney - Reel Injun
Ron Krant, Darren Yearsley - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Selling the War
Suzan Yum - The Naked Archaeologist - Biblical Beauty Secrets
Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series
Eric Bednarski, Barry Cowling - The Strangest Dream
Scott Harper - Philanthropy Inc.
Vladimir Kabelik - So Far From Home
Susan Teskey - Love, Hate and Propaganda - Selling the War
John Walker - Passage
