Primitive Entertainment
| Production company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Film |
| Founded 📆 | 1990 |
| Founder 👔 | Michael McMahon Kevin McMahon |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.primitive.net/ |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Primitive Entertainment (formerly Primitive Features), is a Canadian film and television production company that was founded in 1990 by Michael McMahon and Kevin McMahon. Primitive Entertainment focuses primarily on documentary feature films, television series and digital media.[1][2][3]
The company has earned more than 40 awards world-wide. Recent awards include the Grimme Online Award for Culture and Entertainment, a Webby Award for Best Individual Documentary, the SXSW Interactive award for Activism,[4] the Toyota Earth Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival[5] and an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Nature Programming.[1][6]
Partners who have contributed to the company over the decades have included Kristina McLaughlin, Ian Kelso and Tom Perlmutter.
Most recently, Primitive Entertainment co-produced Borealis with the NFB in partnership with TVO, and in association with ZDF/ARTE, NHK and Knowledge Network.[7]
Filmography[edit]
- The Falls (1991)
- In the Reign of Twilight (1995)
- Truth Merchants (1999)
- Intelligence (1999)
- Cod: The Fish That Changed The World (2000)
- Ancestors in the Attic (2001)
- McLuhan's Wake (2002)
- I, Curmudgeon (2004)
- The Digital Divide (2004)
- Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii (2004)
- A Perfect Fake (2005)
- Four Wings and a Prayer (2007)
- Lovable (2007)
- Waterlife (2009)
- A Hard Name (2009)
- Canadian Made (2011)
- National Parks Project (2011)
- Beauty Day (2011)
- La grande migration des papillons monarque (2011)
- The Polar Sea (2014)
- Spaceship Earth: The Fuel (2015)
- Spaceship Earth: The Navigators (2015)
- Spaceship Earth: The Engines (2015)
- Spaceship Earth: The Passenger Cabins (2015)
- Spaceship Earth: The Flight Crew (2015)
- How to Build a Time Machine (2016)
- Spaceship Earth (2016)
- There Is a House Here (2017)
- In Search of a Perfect World (2018)
- Equator: A New World View (2018)
- Coppers (2019)
- Borealis (2020)[7]
- Writing the Land (2021)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "OMDC SUCCESS STORY: PRIMITIVE ENTERTAINMENT". omdc.on.ca. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
- ↑ info@mandy.com. "Primitive Entertainment". crew.mandy.com. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
- ↑ "Producers - Primitive Entertainment | McNabb Connolly - Dedicated to Enriched Learning Through Multi Media". mcnabbconnolly.ca. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
- ↑ Piahtoronto, - (2010-03-15). "Waterlife wins SXSW Interactive Award". NFB Blog. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- ↑ "Tokyo International Film Festival | Waterlife". 2010.tiff-jp.net. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- ↑ "Primitive Entertainment". primitive.net. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Board, National Film (2021-01-15). "World premiere of Borealis December 15, 2020, on TVO, TVO.org and NFB.ca. By acclaimed Primitive Entertainment in a special co-presentation by the NFB and TVO". gcnws. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
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