National Parks Project
- April 30, 2011 (2011-04-30) (Hot Docs)
The National Parks Project is a Canadian music and film project.[1] Released in 2011 to mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Parks of Canada system,[2] the project sent teams consisting of three Canadian musicians and a filmmaker to 13 Canadian national parks, one in each province or territory, to shoot and score a short documentary film about the park.[3]
The project was commissioned by Parks Canada and produced by FilmCAN and Primitive Entertainment, in association with Discovery World HD.[4] Prior to its commissioning, a test film by Ryan Noth, Joel McConvey and Geoff Morrison entitled National Parks Project: Gros Morne was released in 2009;[5] although it was not included in the finished series, Noth, McConvey and Morrison were producers of the series.
In addition to airing on Discovery World and on the web, the series was also screened at a number of film festivals, including Toronto's Hot Docs.
Music from the project was released on several EPs, as well as on a compilation album that featured some of the most popular tracks.[4]
Awards
Zacharias Kunuk's segment, Sirmilik, won the Genie Award for Best Short Documentary Film at the 32nd Genie Awards.[6] The overall series won the Gemini Award for Best Performing Arts Program or Series at the 26th Gemini Awards.[7]
Projects
References
- ^ "A trip through the National Parks Project". Now, May 18, 2011.
- ^ "The National Parks Project: Wildlife and wild music". The Globe and Mail, May 20, 2011.
- ^ "National Parks Project, The". Torontoist, April 27, 2011.
- ^ a b "National Parks Project Gets Soundtrack with John K. Samson, Shad, Sebastien Grainger". Exclaim!, April 28, 2011.
- ^ "Exploring Canada’s parks in film and music". Queen's Alumni Review, 2010.
- ^ "Nunavut filmmaker wins Genie Award". CBC North, March 8, 2012.
- ^ "Cinema academy dishes out 52 Gemini awards". Windsor Star, September 1, 2011.
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1968–1978
- Never a Backward Step (1968)
- Good Times, Bad Times (1969)
- Wild Africa (1970)
- Les Philharmonistes (1971)
- Coming Home (1973)
- Janis (1975)
- Ahô: The Forest People (1976)
- The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977)
- The Champions (1978)
1980–2011
- Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980)
- Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981)
- P4W: Prison for Women (1982)
- The Devil at Your Heels (1983)
- Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984)
- Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985)
- Final Offer (1986)
- Dads and Kids (1987)
- God Rides a Harley (1988)
- Comic Book Confidential (1989)
- Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990)
- The Famine Within (1991)
- Deadly Currents (1992)
- Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993)
- In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994)
- The Champagne Safari (1995)
- Bones of the Forest (1996)
- Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997)
- A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
- Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999)
- Grass (2000)
- Westray (2001)
- Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
- FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003)
- The Corporation (2004)
- Scared Sacred (2005)
- Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
- Radiant City (2007)
- Up the Yangtze (2008)
- A Hard Name (2009)
- Last Train Home (2010)
- At Night, They Dance (2011)
2012–present
- Stories We Tell (2012)
- Watermark (2013)
- Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014)
- Hurt (2015)
- I Am the Blues (2016)
- Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
- Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
- Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019)
- Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020)
- Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
- To Kill a Tiger (2022)
- Twice Colonized (2023)
- Avec tambours et trompettes (1968)
- Juggernaut (1969)
- KW+ (1970)
- The Sea (1971)
- Selling Out (1972)
- Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973)
- At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975)
- Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
- Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977)
- The Hottest Show on Earth (1978)
- Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980)
- No More Hiroshima (1986)
- The World Is Watching (1989)
- Stunt People (1990)
- The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991)
- A Song for Tibet (1992)
- Le singe bleu (1993)
- Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995)
- Maman et Ève (1996)
- Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997)
- Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998)
- Hemingway: A Portrait (1999)
- The Delian Mode (2009)
- Sirmilik (2011)
- The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012)
- Chi (2013)
- Jutra (2014)
- Bacon and God's Wrath (2015)
- This River (2016)
- Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017)
- My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018)
- Take Me to Prom (2019)
- Sing Me a Lullaby (2020)
- Nalujuk Night (2021)
- Patty vs. Patty (2022)
- Madeleine (2023)