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| Super Channel and Open Door Co. announce Canadian premieres |
| Posted
on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - 09:24 AM |
Super Channel, Canada's new national pay television network set to launch this fall, and Open Door Co. are thrilled to announce the Canadian premieres of feature documentaries INDEPENDENT AMERICA: THE TWO LANE SEARCH FOR MOM AND POP and CRACKED NOT BROKEN.
"Super Channel is proud to offer smart documentaries, produced right here in Canada, by companies such as Open Door. They are a terrific example of the innovation we will be offering Canadians," said Sandy Perkins, Super Channel, Vice-president Programming. "We are hearing from more and more Canadians who are eager to expand their viewing options and are pleased we can find them entertainment made right here at home."
"We are thrilled and honoured that Super Channel has acquired our first two films and will be giving each of them their Canadian Premiere" said President and Executive Producer of Toronto-based Open Door, Tom Powers. "It is great that these films will be coming home to a Canadian audience after the success they have had to date in the US with our broadcast of Cracked Not Broken on HBO and Independent America on Sundance Channel".
INDEPENDENT AMERICA: THE TWO LANE SEARCH FOR MOM AND POP follows filmmaker and former NBC foreign correspondent and Emmy Award winner Hanson Hosein and his wife, former NBC correspondent Heather Hughes, through 13,000 miles and 32 US states in search of "Independent America". Forty years go, "Mom & Pop" businesses were an endangered species as corporate retail advanced quickly through the consumer heartland of the world. But today, small
businesses are clawing their way back and are fighting for the right to remain independent. The film is a co-production of Open Door and HRH Media.
CRACKED NOT BROKEN opens a disturbing window on the life of Lisa, a 37-year-old crack addict and estranged mother who prostitutes herself to fuel her costly drug habit. Although she grew up in an upper class family in Rosedale, a privileged Toronto neighbourhood, went to the right private schools, had the right friends, something along the way went terribly wrong.
In this truly unique film, filmmaker Paul Perrier captured 90 per cent of the film in real time in what can be considered a single shot. The film and its subject gained international prominence after being featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show in May of last year. The film is a co-production of Open Door and Blatant Exposure.
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