about us

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

Our current projects include The Four Seasons of Isadore Sharp for Rogers; the latest Geologic Journey: World for CBC's The Nature of Things; Ancient Marks, a one-hour documentary about tattooing and tribalism for Bravo!/documentary/Smithsonian; and The Fear of the Gun, a look at the controversial and highly-charged gun debate in Canada for Global Television's REVEALED series with Kevin Newman.

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

We recently had an Olympic weekend with two docs commissioned by Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium airing over two days: 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.

And as the countdown to the Olympics begins, an updated version of Sid the Kid V. Alexander the Great: The Olympians will air on CTV and across nine Consortium networks in English and French leading up to and through the Olympic games.

In 2008, we broadcast The Path To War, the first in Kevin Newman's 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 including a documentary on the Underground Railroad for WNED Buffalo; a follow up film to The Brain That Changes Itself called Changing The Brain, Tafelmusik's Messiah, and a short film for Bravo!FACT on a young Don Giovanni.

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