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| Channel Introduction: The Documentary Channel |
| Posted
on Sunday, June 30, 2002 - 06:16 PM |
The Documentary Channel The Documentary Channel, licensed for Category 1 digital carriage, offers Canadian viewers a unique opportunity to examine issues and events through the medium of documentary film.
ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING:
Basic Influence
All film-lovers can name one film has touched them, a film that hits so close to home they are enlightened and changed. For this series, guests such as Norman Jewison, Atom Egoyan, John Smith, Mark Starowitz, David Young and the McKenna brothers select and introduce their favourite documentary films and talk about the reasons behind their choices.
Freeze Frame
Each month, The Documentary Channel features a weekend of themed programming. One month sports; the next month sex, or science, rock ’n’ roll, medicine and health, or crime and punishment. Each themed event is a 24 hour-a-day marathon of the best documentaries from Canada and around the world on a chosen subject.
Screening
Screening presents passionate and state-of-the-art filmmaking. Each night in prime time, one of the world’s finest long-form documentaries will be featured: Mondo Cane, the film that shocked the world in the 60’s; Don’t Look Back, the film that first showcased Bob Dylan to the world and launched the career of the famous documentarian D.A. Pennebaker; Marcel Ophul’s famous epic The Sorrow and the Pity; Donald Brittain’s The Champions; Beryl Fox’s Mills of the Gods, and Flaherty’s legendary Nanook of the North. The hosted series presents documentaries from Canadian and international directors, and includes background pieces and interviews with directors.
Through its partners, The Documentary Channel will showcase Gemini, Emmy and Academy Award winning programs as well as world television premieres. Each week, The Documentary Channel showcases two hours of “CBC Special Presentation” documentaries and two hours of “NFB Special Presentation” documentaries featuring both new and historic programs.
From the CBC, programming will be selected from such documentaries as:
Academy Award winning feature “Just Another Missing Kid”, the story of an Ottawa teen who goes missing on his way to college in Colorado and the years and tens of thousands of dollars his parents spend in a
desperate attempt to bring his killers to justice.
Produced for the fifth estate by John Zaritsky.
1 x 90 minutes
Gemini nominated series “Dawn of the Eye”, a five-part series which reveals the compelling history of visual news for the past hundred years.
Produced for the CBC by Mark Starowicz.
5 x 60 minutes
World television premieres from the National Film Board include:
Slippery Blisses, a tongue-in-cheek documentary that reveals there is nothing simple about a simple kiss.
Directed by Jeanette Loakman and produced by Silva Basmajian and Louise Lore.
Traitor or Patriot asks uneasy questions about who is remembered by history and why others are forgotten.
Directed by Jacques Godbout and produced by Eric Michel and Adam Symansky.
Hollow Water, a candid and touching documentary that follows the journey of one family trying to confront its past by participating in a healing circle.
Directed by Bonnie Dickie and produced by Joe MacDonald and Graydon McCrea.
Additional independently produced programming:
Rape, A Crime of War
Acclaimed documentarian Shelley Saywell’s Rape, A Crime of War focuses on four women who tell their story of forced confinement, rape and degradation during the wars in the former Yugoslavia; rapists claim that they were acting upon a higher authority and legal consultants at The Hague discuss the implications of the first indictment for rape as a war crime. These interviews along with archival footage of war crimes hearings in Nuremburg, Nanking, Bosnia and Rwanda are interspersed with images of Western art and culture which have romanticized,
eroticized and legitimized rape to give us new and revealing insights into this brutal crime. This NFB film is narrated by Kate Nelligan.
1 x 60 minutes
Country of Origin: Canada
Academy Award Winners:
The Ten Year Lunch - the Legend and Wit of the Algonquin Round Table (1987)
Aviva Slesin's award-winning documentary recounts the lives and times of the group of humorists, playwrights, novelists poets and editors whose barbed humor and literary sophistication at their legendary lunches from 1919-1929 embodied the best American culture in the 1920's.
Produced by Aviva Slesin for Aviva Films
1 x 60 minutes
Country of Origin - United States
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1981)
In 1979, acclaimed violinist Isaac Stern accepted an invitation to visit China as an official guest of the government. Accompanied by his family, Mr. Stern spent one month travelling around China learning about this vast country and meeting the Chinese people, first as musicians, then as friends.
Produced by PBS
1 x 60 minutes
Country of Origin – United States
And the sequel:
From Mao to Mozart - Then and Now (1999)
Twenty years later, Isaac Stern returned to Beijing to conduct a series of musical encounters, reacquainting himself with the musicians he first met as children. In addition to offering another unique opportunity to perform wonderful music, Stern's follow-up visit allowed him a personal perspective on the many changes that have transpired in China over the ensuing two decades.
Produced by PBS
1 x 60 minutes
Country of Origin – United States
Academy Award nominated:
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy Narrated by Walter Matthau, Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy film takes an appropriately respectful but
entertaining look at its subject, a dramatist who never forgot how to get his point across. ``Don't bore people. ...
If you have anything worthwhile to say, better be very sure that it is wrapped in chocolate so they will swallow it,” Wilder says in the documentary, and Mel Stuart takes him at his word.
Produced by PBS and Mel Stuart
1 x 90 minutes
Country of Origin – United States
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