Filmography

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Political Blind Date

The smash hit documentary format that follows Canadian politicians from opposite sides of the spectrum, who spend two days together to get to know each other as human beings and try and solve some of the thorniest issues facing the country. 
Nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for best Factual Series

Company Town

A documentary film that follows the workers at General Motors in Oshawa, Ontario as they face the fight of their lives when the company announces it's closing operations after 100 years of building automobiles.
Winner in Durham Region International Film Festival, Winner in Canadian Labour International Film Festival, Nominated in Belleville Downtown Docfest, Nominated in Northwest Fest, Nominated in Workers Unite Film Festival, Nominated in Canadian Screen Awards

Much Too Young

A  feature film that looks at the heart-breaking lives of young caregivers of early onset Alzheimer’s parents. For TVO, Knowledge Network and the Telus Fund. 
Nominated for a ​Canadian Screen Awards Nomination for Best Documentary

Giraffes: The Forgotten Giants

An examination of the unknown biology of the giraffe, which is dying at a faster rate than any other large mammal in Africa. For CBC’s Nature of Things and PBS International. 
Selected for the Pariscience Documentary Festival in 2015

Fight Xchange

A ten part documentary format series that traces the journey of a group of young MMA fighters in Canada and Brazil, the Superchannel and Globo Combate (Brazil) project was a ground-breaking format.

Empire of the Word

An epic four part series about the history of reading and writing, hosted by writer and bibliophile Alberto Manguel, and filmed in 15 countries around the world.
Nominated for a Banff Rockie Award in 2010

The Al Qaeda Code

 The Al Qaeda Code examines how young people around the world are recruited by extremists, by using the Internet and powerful propaganda. The film interviews recruiters, (sometimes in hiding), as well as American military counter terrorism leaders trying to unravel how recruiting is accomplished.
Nominated for a Banff Rockie Award in 2010

​I Married My Family's Killer

Produced for CBC’s documentary channel, the film looks at three married couples in Rwanda, where one of the spouses in each marriage has family that helped kill the other’s family during the genocide.

Winner of the Student Academy Award 2015

When We Were Boys

An observational feature documentary shot over three years for CBC’s documentary channel, it traces the coming-of-age of a group of boys in a private school in downtown, Toronto, Canada.

Nominated for the Donald Britain Award 2009

The Man Who Became King

Adongo lives in Ottawa, Ontario, where he works the night shift in a recycling plant. But when his father dies in Southern Sudan and passes over Adongo’s elder brothers, the refugee in Canada becomes the king of one of the largest ethnic groups in his homeland. For years, we follow him and he chooses between settling his family in Canada or leaving them to become king of the Anyuak tribe.  For CBC, National Geographic International and Sundance Channel.

Nominated for the Donald Britain Award 2004

Blood, Smoke and Tears

Filmmaker Mark Johnston returns to his hometown of Simcoe, Ontario, where he grew up working in the local tobacco fields. An examination of place, family and identity in the agricultural heartland in Canada.
For CBC, TFO and Al Jazeera (2001). 

In the Shadow of a Saint

The story of Ken Wiwa, son of the late Ogoni writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. The young man returns home to Nigeria to try and bury his father, five years after being murdered by the Nigerian dictatorship for protesting Shell Oil’s exploitation of Ogoni land. For the BBC, CBC, IKON (Netherlands), TFO, and SBS Australia. 

Nominated for the Donald Britain Award 
Prize Winner at Hot Docs 2001