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Kensington Communications Inc
Kensington Logo
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded1980 in Kensington Market, by Robert Lang
Executive ProducerRobert Lang
Writer & Web DeveloperAllen Booth
Digital Marketing ManagerDanilo Ferron

Background

Kensington Communications is a Toronto-based production company that specializes in documentary films and documentary/factual television series. Founded in 1980 by president Robert Lang, Kensington Communications Inc. has produced over 200 productions from documentary series and films to performing arts and children's specials. Since 1998, Kensington has also been involved in multi-platform interactive projects for the web and mobile devices.

The company's productions include Scopify, a mobile app which allows visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum to get an interactive look at many of the museum's artifacts; Museum Secrets, a television series that explores museums across the globe, and Shameless Idealists, a five-part series produced in association with Free the Children, that features interviews with changemakers and social activists like Richard Branson, Magic Johnson, and Nelly Furtado. Since its foundation in 1980, Kensington has won a number of awards for these and other programs (see Awards section for details).

In 2015-16, Kensington Communications produced The Equalizer, the first of two one-hour documentaries in coproduction with Berlin Producers for broadcast on CBC’s The Nature of Things, SRC Explora and ZDF/Arte. The Equalizer broadcast premiere date was March 3, 2016 on CBC TV; it will be broadcast again leading up to the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

In 2015, Kensington coproduced The Drop: Why Young People Don't Vote a one-hour documentary for TVOntario and CPAC exploring the subject of young peoples’ relationship to voting.

Currently they are producing a one-hour POV documentary for TVOntario and Canal D called Risk Factor.

Filmography

Television Series

One-off Documentaries:

  • Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits (TVO, ZDF Arte, Canal D, SBS)
  • Return to Nepal with Bruce Cockburn (documentary channel)
  • Almost Home: A Sayisi Dene Journey (CBC); awarded best Social Political documentary and Kathleen Shannon Award at Yorkton Film Festival.
  • My Beat: The Life and Times of Bruce Cockburn (CBC)
  • River of Sand (TVO/Vision); awarded best Canadian film at Vues d'Afrique film festival
  • Separate Lives (Discovery/TLC/BBC), awarded best science, environment or nature documentary, Gemini Award
  • A Place in the World (Vision/SCN); awarded Vision Humanitarian Award, Hot Docs
  • Mariposa: Under a Stormy Sky—an examination of 1960s folk music and the Mariposa Folk Festival (CTV)
  • One Warm Line—a portrait of the legendary Canadian folk singer, Stan Rogers (CBC)
  • Pacific Rim: A Park and its People (Discovery Channel's Parks Series)
  • On the Run: Growing up with Alcohol; Awarded Best Film from the National Foundation for Alcoholism Communications Awards
  • Out of the Past (TVOntario, PBS, Access Alberta)
  • Stepdancing: Portrait of a Remarried Family (CBC); Awarded 1987 Blue Ribbon in the American Film and Video Festival
  • Seeds
  • Fragile Harvest(CBC's The Nature of Things, NFB)
  • Joe David/Spirit of the Mask half-hour documentary for CBC)
  • Childhoods End (for TVO)

Interactive & Digital Projects:

Children's Variety Programming

  • Biggest Little Ticket (CTV/YTV)

Public Service Media

Recognitions

Awards

2014
Canadian Screen Award, Best Factual Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) [6]
Canadian Screen Award, Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) [7]
2013
Canadian Screen Award, Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television)[8]
Digi Awards, (Nomination) Best in Mobility, ScopifyROM[9]
2008
Canadian New Media Awards, Best News Information, Diamond Road Online[10] [11]
Gemini Award – Best Documentary Series, Diamond Road[12]
Platinum Award – Best Feature Documentary, Diamond Road (Houston Worldfest)[13]
2005 & 2007
Worldmedal – Docudrama, 72 Hours: True Crime (New York Festivals)[14] [15]
2004
Golden Sheaf Award – Best Documentary, Social/Political Almost Home (Yorkton Festival)[16]
2004
NFB Kathleen Shannon Award, Almost Home (Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival)[17]
2004
Platinum Award – Ecology/Environment/Conservation, Sacred Balance Show 3 Fire of Creation (Houston Worldfest)[18]
1998
Gemini Award – Science, Technology, Nature, Separate Lives (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television)[19]
1997
HotDocs – Vision TV Humanitarian Award, A Place in the World [20]
1995
Award of Excellence – Best Variety, The Biggest Little Ticket (Alliance for Children and Television)[21]

Other Notable Nominations & Selections

Notable recognitions include:

Gemini Awards, BANFF, HistoryMakers, DOXA, ReFrame Festival, Himalayas Film Festival, Planet in Focus, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, Prix Science & Societé, Paris

References

  1. ^ "Museum Secrets on History Television".
  2. ^ http://www.museumsecrets.tv/ Museum Secrets Official Site
  3. ^ http://diamondroad.tv/index_tvo.php/ Diamond Road on TVO
  4. ^ http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/72_hours_true_crime_hd/ 72 Hours: True Crime on CBC
  5. ^ http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini25/catpop.cfm?catid=1034/ Gemini Award Nomination Page
  6. ^ "2014 Award Winner List". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  7. ^ "2014 Award Winner List". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  8. ^ "Awards Database". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  9. ^ "Digi Awards - Best in Mobility". nextMEDIA. nextMEDIA3.0. Retrieved August 21, 2014.
  10. ^ "www.bullfrogfilms.com". Bullfrog Films. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  11. ^ "Top 15 - 2008 Canadian New Media Awards". Backbone Magazine. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  12. ^ "Canadian Screen Awards database". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  13. ^ "2008 Worldfest Winner's List" (PDF). Worldfest Houston. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 20, 2009. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ "New York Festivals Awards Database". New York Festivals. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  15. ^ "New York Festivals Awards Database". New York Festivals. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  16. ^ "2004 Canadian Golden Sheaf Award Winners". Yorkton Film Festival. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  17. ^ "2004 Canadian Golden Sheaf Award Winners". Yorkton Film Festival. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  18. ^ "Houston Worldfest Houston Winners 2004" (PDF). Worldfest Houston. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2007. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  19. ^ "Canadian Screen Awards Database". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  20. ^ "1997 Hot Docs Awards Archive". Hot Docs. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.
  21. ^ "Bizet's Dream and Watatow take ACT Awards". Playback Magazine. Retrieved Dec 3, 2013.

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