Gordon Henderson is more of a journalist with an artistic bent than a businessman but he perseveres and 90th has survived - sometimes even thrived - since 1987. He 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 W5. He was also the senior series producer of the celebrated CBC/Radio-Canada series Canada: A People's History.
He can't hold a tune but he does sit on the board of Opera Atelier and was on the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir's board of directors. He is past Chair of Dixon Hall, a community service agency in Regent Park, and remains on their fundraising and development committee.
He is on 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.
Nothing would get done here at 90th if it weren't for Susanne. Seriously. Nothing.
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 and Times of John Kenneth Galbraith and Wade Davis: Explorer.
In 2010, Geoff worked with Andrew Gregg on Tattoo Odyssey (Bravo!/Smithsonian/documentary) and again with Andy on the Geologic Journey II series for CBC The Nature of Things. He recently edited a one hour documentary with Laine Drewery on the Underground Railroad for Rogers and WNED-Buffalo (PBS) and is currently working on CityTV's Tough Choices series with Karen Pinker.
Geoff is also our resident cyclist. Rain or shine, he braves those roads - and often has a good rant about it when he gets in to the office.
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's filmic explorations have led him to recently direct the latest in the Geologic Journey series for CBC's The Nature of Things, and Tattoo Odyssey, a film on tribalism and tattooing for Bravo/Smithsonian/documentary. He also directed two of the four episodes in The Adventurers series - another successful co-production between 90th and CBC's The Nature of Things. His documentary,The Last Nomads, from The Adventurers won the Grand Prize at the 2008 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.
Andy also recently directed We Will Remember Them, a two hour feature documentary for the CBC on Canada's fallen soldiers in Afghanistan. Current projects include: First Contact: Baffin Island and a one hour documentary on wind power, both for CBC's The Nature of Things.
Kate Viner began working for 90th Parallel Productions in 2005.
At any given time, Kate finds herself juggling any number of projects 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.
But Anthony's mother is currently on maternity leave.
Karen Pinker has been associated with the team at 90th Parallel since 2003, traveling to Cambodia, El Salvador, Spain, Haiti, Ethopia and other far flung ports of call as a director/writer of documentaries.
Now she's venturing into the digital world working with Gordon Henderson as creative director of artfromKaoS - a partner company specializing in Apps.
Some highlights from her broadcast projects with 90th include: a Gemini nomination as Best Director for Haida G'waii (Valerie Pringle Has Left The Building); Senior Producer of CTV's Canada's Next Great Prime Minister; Director/Writer of Hip 2 B Holy, a one-hour documentary with Kevin Newman on a GenNext religious movement in Canada for Global Television ; No Country For Animals, a look at the animal rights movement in Canada, also with Kevin Newman; and 2 recent documentaries for Rogers Television: Tough Choices with Gord Martineau.
Rita Kotzia is our Greek Goddess here at 90th. A native of Montreal, when not making us jealous with her talk of olive oil and honey from the family home in Greece, she's showing off that she also speaks fluent French.
Rita has written, produced and directed for specialty channels, national television news and production houses both in Quebec and Ontario.
She came to 90th from CBC's Doc Zone where she was travelling the world producing, managing and researching several documentaries. At 90th she does a bit --well a lot -- of everything including directing a feature length documentary.
Since starting in television in her native New Zealand, Eleisha McNeil has run the gamut of roles both behind and in front of the camera - as production manager, assignment editor, reporter, writer, producer and director.
Eleisha joined 90th Parallel in 2008, and has since researched and produced a variety of documentaries for broadcasters including CBC, Rogers, Bravo, and PBS.
She pretty much does everything except narrate because she has that funny accent.
Bruce LaPointe first started working at 90th Parallel in 2009 when he edited our Olympic doc Sid the Kid V Alexander the Great, for which he was nominated for a Gemini award. We liked him so much we kept him. Like our own little trophy editor. Sometimes we shine his forehead and show him off to visitors. But most of the time we lock him away in the editing suite so no one tries to steal him away.