Documentaries & Docuseries

Here is how the work lines up. Canadian documentary is one of the most institutionally supported and internationally celebrated nonfiction traditions in the world. The National Film Board of Canada (NFB / ONF — government-funded since 1939) holds more Oscar wins and nominations than almost any documentary body globally, with a legacy that runs from Norman McLaren through to the modern work of Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki, NFB filmmaker since 1967 — Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Trick or Treaty, Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair).

Hot Docs in Toronto has been the largest documentary festival in North America since 1993 and remains the primary North American market for nonfiction acquisition. Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky's Anthropocene trilogy (Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch) defined modern environmental documentary, while Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Grass), Brett Story (The Prison in Twelve Landscapes), Sturla Gunnarsson (Force of Nature), and Astra Taylor (Examined Life) extend the tradition. CBC's The Fifth Estate, The Passionate Eye, and Nature of Things; TVO Docs; and APTN Indigenous Voices anchor the broadcast commissioning side, with Netflix Canada, Crave, and Amazon Canada now layering streaming originals on top.

We provide production support for documentary and docuseries shoots across the full Canadian landscape — research and access through the NFB and Library and Archives Canada collections, CBC and Radio-Canada archives, the Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Musée McCord (Montreal), and the BC Archives. Field production runs across the Arctic (Iqaluit, Pond Inlet, Inuvik — lined up with Inuit Broadcasting Corporation and Isuma Productions), the Pacific Northwest (Haida Gwaii, the Great Bear Rainforest), the Boreal forest, the Newfoundland and Labrador coast, and inner-city Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

We coordinate Indigenous protocols with the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Métis National Council, and individual band councils for filming on traditional and treaty territories; Parks Canada permits for national park work; ARRI Alexa Mini LF and Sony FX6 / FX9 documentary packages from Sim and William F. White; and discreet single-op setups for verite work. Post-production runs through Toronto and Montreal facilities with archive-clearance and rights-management support, plus the Hot Docs / TIFF / IDFA / Sundance / Berlin festival-finishing path Canadian docs consistently land.