about us

90th Parallel Productions is respected throughout the industry as one of Canada's premier high-end documentary production houses.

Our current and upcoming projects include: Geologic Journey II (Premieres October 21st on CBC The Nature of Things); Tattoo Odyssey, a one-hour documentary about tattooing and tribalism (airs Sunday October 10th on Bravo!); a follow up film to The Brain That Changes Itself called Changing Your Mind (Thursday September 30th, CBC The Nature of Things); Prime Suspects, a film on false accusations and We Will Remember Them, a two-hour documentary special for CBC on Canada's fallen soldiers in Afghanistan (Thursday November 11th, 8pm). And in time for Christmas 2010, look out for Tafelmusik's Sing Along Messiah on Bravo! And keep your eyes (and ears?) peeled for the wonderful Bravo!Fact short we produced with Opera Atelier about a young Don Giovanni.

We're also producing interactive websites for both Geologic Journey II and We Will Remember Them which will launch shortly before their respective television broadcasts.

Recent 90th productions include the two latest installments in the REVEALED series with Kevin Newman: Missing the Target and No Country For Animals for Global Television, The Four Seasons of Isadore SharpPart business story, part biography, our film for City TV, and two films commissioned by Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium: Sid the Kid V. Alexander the Great for CTV and Away From Home for OMNI Television. Away From Home was versioned in Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, German, and Punjabi. Both Olympic films were produced in French. Sid the Kid V. Alexander the Great: The Olympians, an updated version of the initial show, aired in the lead up to the Olympics and through the games across the Olympic broadcast networks.

Also in 2009 we produced Hip 2 B Holy, a one-hour documentary looking into a GenNext religious reformation in Canada, directed by Karen Pinker for Global's REVEALED series.

And in 2008, we broadcast The Path To War, the first in the REVEALED series, directed by Mike Sheerin; The Museum, a two-hour NFB-CBC co-production on the redesign of the Royal Ontario Museum; Rude: Where are Our Manners? with Valerie Pringle for CBC Doc Zone; The Adventurers, a four part series for CBC's The Nature of Things, directed by Andy Gregg; Mall Santa, a whimsical look at the hidden world of Santa Claus for Global, and a one-hour documentary on neuroplacticity based on the book of the same name, The Brain That Changes Itself, for CBC's The Nature of Things and ARTE in Europe. Both Mall Santa and The Brain That Changes Itself were directed by Mike Sheerin.

We have a number of projects in development but we probably didn't need to tell you that.

On this site you'll find nearly everything you need to know about 90th Parallel.

Email addresses can be found in the "Our People" section and video clips can be viewed throughout the site (QuickTime required).

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