Henderson began his career as parliamentary correspondent for Global TV, produced documentaries for CBC’s The Journal and was the senior field producer at CTV’s W-FIVE.
He founded 90th Parallel Productions in 1987. Since then, he has won two Gemini Awards and been nominated twelve times.
Gordon Henderson was the senior series producer of the celebrated thirty-two hour CBC/Radio-Canada series "Canada: A People’s History." In 2006, he spent a month in Afghanistan with Canadian troops producing, directing and writing the documentary "The Crazy Eights" for CBC. (The Globe and Mail called the show "must-see TV.") This past year, he travelled to Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore and Saudi Arabia for a film about Isadore Sharp and the Four Seasons hotel. But when he's not in exotic locales, he can be found at our office in Toronto, overseeing all of 90th's many productions.
Henderson was Chair of the Board for Dixon Hall, a community service agency in Toronto, and sat on the board for Tafelmusik, Canada's leading Baroque orchestra, as well as the University of Western Ontario's Journalism Advisory Council.
For more than a decade he was an instructor with the Journalism department at Toronto's Ryerson University.
As Production Manager, Susanne Cuffe oversees all business aspects of 90th Parallel Productions. She coordinates the documentary productions, manages the budgets and keeps the productions on track.
She is also the Post-Production Supervisor and Business Manager for 90th's related company, ViewPost Productions.
Geoff Matheson has been (and continues to be) an extremely busy documentary editor, working on over 20 productions in the past five years alone.
His recent 90th Parallel editing credits include The Adventurers: The Last Nomads and The Everlasting Oasis, Revealed: The Path to War, Light at the Edge of the World, The Secret Mulroney Tapes, The Biographer's Voice, The Hockey Nomad Goes To Russia, They Built the Railway, The Ghosts of Lomako,The Abiding Liberal: The Life & Times of John Kenneth Galbraith and Wade Davis: Explorer.
He is currently working with Andy Gregg on Ancient Marks (Bravo!/Smithsonian/documentary) and again with Andy on Geologic Journey: World (CBC The Nature of Things).
Andrew Gregg is the writer, director and producer of the highly acclaimed 4 x one-hour documentary series, Light At The Edge of the World.
An elected fellow of the Explorer's Club, Andy recently finished production on the four-part series, The Adventurers - a co-production between 90th Parallel and CBC's The Nature of Things. The Last Nomads from The Adventurers won the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Andy directed the premiere episode of CBC's award-winning, hugely-popular series Canada: A People's History and the CBC Witness documentary Locked Horns: The Fate of Old Crow. He has also made seven hour-long documentary portrait films for CBC Television's Life and Times, including, most recently, The Abiding Liberal: The Life and Times of John Kenneth Galbraith, and also Wade Davis: Explorer; Susan Aglukark: Polarities; Robert Bateman; Christopher and Mary Pratt; Studio: Alex Colville; and Sit Down, Shut Up, Don Messer's On.
Andy also produced and directed the comprehensive four-part series, They Built the Railway, for History Television.
He is currently in production on the latest in the Geologic Journey series for CBC's The Nature of Things, and Ancient Marks, a film on tribalism and tattooing for Bravo/Smithsonian/documentary. Go to What's New for photos from his recent shoots.
Mike won a 2008 Gemini award for Best Photography his film Bravo Company: Kandahar, a one-hour documentary about life "outside the wire" for Canadian soldiers in Kandahar. In 2007 Mike also produced and directed Welcome to Canadaville for CTV Television, a look at a Canadian-born post-Katrina housing experiment in small-town Louisiana.
In 2006 his Encounters with Moses kicked off the Life & Times season on CBC Television. The documentary, a profile of controversial broadcaster Moses Znaimer, was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival in 2007 in the best biography category.
He also directed/produced the feature length documentary, The Secret Mulroney Tapes, which was broadcast in November, 2005 on CBC's The Passionate Eye. For this doc he received two Gemini nominations, one for Best History Documentary and one for Best Director.
In 2005 he was nominated for a Gemini for best biography documentary for The Biographer's Voice: The Life and Times of Peter C. Newman and also produced/directed The Degrassi Story for CTV which garnered nearly one million viewers in its premiere broadcast.
Mike is currently in production on The Fear of the Gun, the third film in the Global REVEALED series with Kevin Newman and 90th Parallel Productions. He is also working on a follow up film to his 2008 documentary The Brain That Changes Itself. And his wife just had their second baby boy so that's keeping him busy as well!
After a year and a half stint with Random House of Canada, Kate returned to her 90th "family" where she juggles any number of projects at a time from the development phase to post-production through to publicity. She works closely with all of our directors and producers, doing both editorial and logistical coordination for many of our television productions.
Most recently, Kate was Associate Editorial Producer on two one-hour documentaries for Canada’s Olympic Media Broadcast Consortium: Away From Home, a film about foreign athletes living and training in Canada for the Vancouver Olympics, and Sid the Kid V. Alexander the Great, a one-hour documentary on the pop culture debate over the NHL’s hottest players. Amongst a number of productions in development, Kate is also working on a Bravo!Fact short film with Opera Atelier, Canada’s Baroque opera company; a television performance of the Sing Along Messiah with Tafelmusik for Bravo!, as well as the latest in the Revealed series with Karen Pinker and Kevin Newman for Global.
In 2008, Kate was Associate Producer on Revealed: Hip 2B Holy (Global Television) and website coordinator for Rude: Where are our Manners? (CBC Doc Zone).
Kate is also busy growing 90th Parallel’s online presence both by maintaining this fantastic and informative website and exploring opportunities to connect our television productions to new media outlets.
Prior to her work with 90th, Karen worked as a Senior Producer for Global National News; as Senior Producer for docs/ daily chase at Studio 2 (TVO); and Series Producer for Test of Faith (Vision). She has also directed over 40 short documentaries for Studio 2.
Karen recently directed and produced Hip 2 B Holy, a one-hour documentary with Kevin Newman on a GenNext movement sparking a religious reformation in Canada. Hip 2 B Holy is the second in the Global REVEALED series with Kevin Newman.
Karen is currently in production on the latest in the Revealed series.
After arriving in Canada in 2004, Eleisha spent three years at the CBC working on documentaries for the fifth estate specials before a stint in the Factual Entertainment department producing Test the Nation: IQ and Test the Nation: Watch your Language. She then moved to the in-house documentary unit to produce How to be Happy and Cell Phone: The Ring Heard Around the World, before joining the 90th Parallel team in May 2008.
She is currently working with Gordon Henderson on The Four Seasons of Isadore Sharp and with Andy Gregg on Geologic Journey: World and his film Ancient Marks. She is also in development on a one hour documentary on the Underground Railroad.
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Over the last few years, Michael Hannan has been editing a number of documentaries for 90th Parallel, including Away From Home, The Brain That Changes Itself, Rude: Where Are Our Manners, Welcome To Canadaville and Encounters With Moses.
He has also edited many documentaries for CBC, CTV, History Television, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic. He has won a Gemini Award and in 2007 won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Editing – Non-fiction at the Yorkton Film Festival for the film Mississippi Cold Case, a film that resulted in the re-opening of a 43 year old civil rights murder case and subsequent conviction of a former Klan member.
However the awards have easily been outnumbered by his 10 year-old son Jake who now has about 12 trophies and probably will have more by this time next week.
He is currently editing a new episode for the Revealed series with Karen Pinker.