CineFocus Canada Productions' documentary one-offs and series mix entertainment with insight and focus on social issues, popular culture, and biography programming.

We've produced over 20 hours of prime time programming that has sold around the world. Our most recent documentary Museum Maestros chronicles the life and work of the world's premier museum planners, Gail and Barry Lord. This dynamic pair of unlikely cultural heroes take us on a journey to some of the most inspirational and innovative cultural centres across the globe, including The World Trade Center Memorial in New York City, The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, and the future home of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

Our latest biography is Buffy Sainte Marie: A Multimedia Life. In it Buffy's extraordinary life is told on screen for the first time. Featuring interviews with Buffy, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, Randy Bachman, Bill Cosby and Steppenwolf's John Kay, this one-hour program weaves archival and current performance footage with visits to Buffy's home in Hawaii and her birthplace near the Piapot Reserve in Saskatchewan. The documentary premiered on Bravo! in November, 2006. Look for future broadcasts on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, The Biography Channel, Saskatchewan Communications Network and the Knowledge Network in British Columbia.

Another recent CineFocus Canada TV biography is C.W. Jefferys: Picturing Canada, an arts biography on the prolific illustrator of Canadian history. It is currently on Bravo! and will also air on TVOntario's Masterworks.

Beauty and the Beach was an instant hit that aired across Canada on a dozen networks. It was distributed by Films Transit and enjoyed broadcasts in twelve countries on four continents. This one-hour documentary used the vehicle of the bathing suit to explore the impact of the century's changing beauty ideals on women's body image.

Other credits include Northern Lights, 28 profiles of celebrated Canadians for Global Television and Lucky Breaks, a 26 episode documentary series for Star! - CHUM Television's national entertainment channel and A&E's Biography Channel in the U.S. This series explores the career breakthroughs of renowned personalities and asks them to contemplate the role luck played in their success.

Visions from the Wilderness: The Art of Paul Kane, an arts biography on the grandfather of Canadian art, picked up a pair of international awards and aired across Canada on Bravo!, and in Ireland on TG4. The documentary profiles Paul Kane's life and the artistic compromise he made for the sake of his audience.