FORCE OF NATURE
2011 Entertainment 1 / National Film Board
Winner Cadillac People’s Choice Documentary Award – TIFF
Winner Environmental Film Award – VIFF
Winner Best Film – Byron Bay, Australia
Winner Best Documentary Award – Cinéfest
Winner International Award of Excellence – Canadian Environmental Media Awards
Opening Film — Canadian Front Series, MOMA
Official Selection – Washington Environmental Film Festival
BEOWULF & GRENDEL
2006 Equinoxe Releasing/Union Station Media
Loosely adapted from the Anglo Saxon epic poem, ‘Beowulf’. Starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skaarsgard and Sarah Polley.
“…good, bloody fun that stirs the intellect whenever it feels like it. And as a swashbuckler, the dead-game Butler out swings just about anyone in Troy or Kingdom of Heaven or Tristan & Isolde. Those overblown historical epics played just as loosely with history as this one does, but they don’t boast a third of its bawdy, sly humour.” — Bill Gallo, Village Voice
AIR INDIA 182
2008 52 Media/Eurasia Motion Pictures, CBC
A non-fiction thriller.
“… brilliantly crafted … will haunt viewers and shake them from complacency as it recreates the most deadly act of air terrorism in history before 9/11. … a classic of its genre and an important page of Canadian history.” – Bruce Kirkland. Toronto Sun
Winner – Directors Guild of Canada ‘Alan King Award’ for outstanding achievement in documentary
RARE BIRDS
2001 Lions Gate Releasing.
“Sturla Gunnarsson’s Rare Birds is a sweetheart of a film, whimsical and touching.”
-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Winner – 4 Directors Guild of Canada Awards including ‘best motion picture’, ‘best director’, ‘best editing’, and ‘best production design’.
Nominated for 5 Genie Awards including ‘best motion picture’, ‘best directing’, ‘best screenplay’
SUCH A LONG JOURNEY
1998 Red Sky Entertainment/The Shooting Gallery.
Adapted from on the Booker Prize nominated novel by Rohinton Mistry.
“It’s not very often that a film crosses that line between being very good, and being a truly great work of cinema. Such A Long Journey not only crosses that line, but it makes it look easy.”
-John Binns, British Film Review
Winner – Genie Award ”best actor’
Nominated for 12 Genie Awards including ‘best motion picture’ and ‘best director’
GERRIE & LOUISE
“The gripping account of a journey through delusion to enlightenment.” – Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Winner – International Emmy Award
Winner – Canadian Academy ‘Donald Brittain Award’ for outstanding documentary
Winner – Gemini Award for ‘best writing’
Winner – Chalmers Documentarian Award
FINAL OFFER
The cinema verite classic about the historic United Autoworkers Union strike against GM that led to the breakup of the world’s biggest international union.
“Strap on your seatbelts. This backstage look at the GM contract talks has more intrigue, backstabbing and double- crossing than Dallas or Dynasty. Don’t miss it.” — The Toronto Sun
Winner – Genie Award ‘best documentary’
Winner – Prix Italia ‘best documentary’
Winner – Banff Television Festival Grand Prize
‘Top 10 of the decade’ – International documentary Association