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Still Standing
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Still Standing is a hilarious, irreverent, and affectionate adventure into small town Canada that celebrates the people who proudly choose to call those places home.
The show follows actor and comedian, Jonny Harris, as he journeys across the country exploring communities that are on the ropes and meets the locals who remain fiercely loyal to their hometowns. Every small town has its characters and Jonny finds them and learns about what makes that town special.
In each community, he mines enough material to perform an original stand-up comedy routine for the locals at the end of his visit. The light-hearted roast pays homage to his hosts and shows us that no matter what hardships they face, there is always warmth, spirit, and a warm-hearted laugh to be had.
Broadcaster: CBC
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: 2020 CSA AWARD – Best Writing, Factual
Winner: 2019 CSA AWARD – Best Writing, Factual & Best Host in a Program or Series
Winner: 2018 CSA AWARD – Best Writing, Factual
Winner: 2017 CSA AWARD – Best Factual Series
Winner: 2017 CSA AWARD – Best Writing in Factual Program
Winner: 2017 CSA AWARD – Best Host in Lifestyle, Talk or Entertainment News Program
Winner: 2016 CSA AWARD – Best Factual Program or Series
Winnipeg Comedy Festival
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Consistently the highest-rated comedy festival series on CBC Television, The Winnipeg Comedy Festival presents the best of Canadian comedic talent in five, one-hour gala events. Each episode revolves around a single theme as comedians poke fun at our collective obsessions with subjects such as food, dating, technology, bad bosses, workplace romances and more.
Original Broadcaster: CBC
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Nomination: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Comedy
Backyard Builds
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When indoor space isn’t enough, Backyard Builds showcases the endless opportunities outdoor areas can provide. The series stars contractor and designer Brian McCourt and design expert Sarah Keenleyside who work with homeowners to maximize their backyard’s potential by creating tailored, one-of-a-kind landscapes and structures. Whether they create a cake studio, treehouse and play structure, or an outdoor movie theatre, this contractor and designer duo can extend any living space.
Original Broadcaster: HGTV Canada
For distribution information, please contact info@franticfilms.com
High Maintenance
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Building a complex structure or system is an epic engineering feat requiring incredible attention to detail. If that structure should fail, the consequences can be immediate and devastating. That’s why ongoing maintenance procedures are just as important as the initial build – and “maintenance” can be extremely dangerous and complex. The men and women who carry out this critical and dangerous work often put their lives on the line, working against the clock in harsh environments to ensure that megastructures and critical infrastructure not only continue to work but avoid catastrophic failure.
Each episode of High Maintenance examines two unique and fascinating structures, systems or engineering marvels through the dangerous and extraordinary work required to keep them running as designed. From the complex networks of underground tunnels moving hundreds of thousands of people daily, to mountain top tramways ferrying passengers high above majestic mountain tops, every engineering marvel needs constant monitoring and maintenance to avert disaster. It’s tough, important work and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Welcome to the world of High Maintenance.
Original Broadcaster: Smithsonian Channel
Distributor: Abacus Media Rights
The Stats of Life
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The Stats of Life is a fun, factual entertainment series that digs into the numbers behind how people live their lives. In each episode, we meet three real families: one that represents the statistical average in some way, and two outliers who illustrate the range of lifestyles and experiences in modern life. Whether its our sex lives, marriage and divorce, raising kids, how much we make or the kinds of pets we have, the series offers a fascinating look at how most of us live – but also the incredible diversity we enjoy.
Original Broadcaster: CBC
For Distribution, please contact: info@franticfilms.com
Killer In Plain Sight
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Killer in Plain Sight is a riveting whodunit series featuring disturbing murders where everyone is a suspect and detectives must filter the lies from the truth in order to crack the case. It’s only when the killer is caught that we realize they were there all along, right before
our eyes: the loved one making an emotional appeal, the neighbour who helped in the search, the family friend who gave an interview, while all the time they had blood on their hands.
Original Broadcaster: Investigation Discovery (as “In Plain Sight”)
Distributor: Abacus Media Rights
Til Debt Do Us Part
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(118 x ½-hour lifestyle series)
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Money is the number one cause of marital stress and often leads to divorce. In each episode financial expert and tough love dispenser, Gail Vaz-Oxlade, meets a family in desperate need of help. Some are on the verge of bankruptcy, hounded by creditors or facing eviction; others are barely getting by, but are in the midst of a personal or relationship breakdown because of money issues. With the sensitivity of a therapist and the toughness of a CFO, Gail takes control of the family’s finances for one month. She devises a strict budget and enforces dramatic changes. At the end of the month, we see if the couple gets back on track for a more solid financial future.
Original broadcaster: Slice
Distributor: Syndicado
Awards
Winner: SOCAN award — Domestic Non-Animated Television Series
Winner: SOCAN Awards 2012 — Domestic Non-Animated Television Series
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Winner: Accolade TV Awards — Award of Excellence: on camera talent
Winner: Accolade TV Awards — Award of Merit: reality programming
Winner: Canadian Film and Television Producers Association Indie Award — Best Lifestyle or Reality Program or Series
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Banff World Television Festival Rockie Awards— Lifestyle & Information Programs
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Best Lifestyle Program
Nomination: Banff World Television Festival Rockie Awards— Best Lifestyle Program
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Best Lifestyle Program
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Lifestyle
Meet The Family
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Based on the successful UK series Meet the Parents, each episode of Meet the Family features a series of hilarious pranks perpetrated by actors portraying the family of one half of a new couple on the other. This comedy series turns a normally mundane encounter with future would-be in-laws into an excruciating test of resolve and commitment as the new love interest becomes an unwitting participant in a totally fake and entirely outrageous family gathering. Unaware that they’ve been set-up by their partner, they meet the fake family whose task it is to make their encounter as insane and uncomfortable as possible, as hidden cameras throughout the house record their every move. If the new partner sticks around for long enough, the couple will be rewarded with a free holiday together.
Original Broadcaster: CityTV
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Nomination: Canadian Comedy Awards — Best TV Show
Nomination: Canadian Comedy Awards — Best Direction in a TV Series or Special
Nomination: Canadian Comedy Awards — Best Writing in a TV Series or Special
Nomination: Canadian Comedy Awards — Best Male Performance in a TV Series
Pitchin' In
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(52 x ½-hour documentary series)
Chef Lynn Crawford worked her way up the ladder to become executive chef at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan. But in 2009, she handed in her resignation and left the big city to rekindle her passion for food. After years behind the kitchen door miles from the source of the ingredients she used every day, she craved adventure, a more intimate relationship with the ingredients she uses and the people who grow and harvest them. In Pitchin’ In, Lynn meets the people who produce the finest ingredients at the source, enjoys their local recipes and then using her amazing talents, prepares a deluxe meal with those same ingredients. Will the locals hate this city girl’s fancy food – or fall in love with her fantastic creations?
Original Broadcaster: Food Network Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Houston Worldfest – Silver Remi Award — Lifestyle Programming – Series
Winner: Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Best Lifestyle Program
Winner: Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards — Best Woman Chef Book – Lynn Crawford’s Pitchin’ In
Winner: Banff World Television Festival Rockie Awards — Lifestyle & Information Programs
Nomination: Banff Rockie Awards — Lifestyle
Nomination: Canadian Screen Awards — Best Lifestyle or Talk Program or Series
Nomination: Canadian Screen Awards — Best Host in a Variety, Lifestyle, Reality/Competition, Performing Arts or Talk Program or Series
Nomination: Yorkton Golden Sheaf Awards — Lifestyle
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Lifestyle
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series (Host)
Pioneer Quest: A Year In The Real West
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(9 x 1-hour Episodes)Watch on Amazon Prime.
Pioneer Quest: A Year In The Real West, follows two couples as they assume the lives of early settlers to the West and spend one year living as 1870s pioneers on the Canadian prairie. Using only the resources and tools of the period, they will attempt build homes, raise livestock, hunt and grow crops. No running water. No electricity. No modern conveniences. They must work together to feed themselves, build shelter and endure the extreme heat and cold, share the joy of success and the stress of failure, to persevere and prosper. Through the incredible first person experience, Pioneer Quest shows how a large part of Canada was settled and the foundation for this great country was built.
Original Broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
Quest for the Bay
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(5 x 1-hour documentary series)Watch Quest for the Bay on Amazon
Eight adventurers travel in a York boat from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay just as fur traders in the 1700 and 1800’s did, equipped only with the food, clothing, and supplies of the period. Over the two-month journey, the crew must traverse an inland sea, navigate dangerous rapids and haul 4000 lbs. of cargo through brutal portages on their arduous journey through the rugged Canadian wilderness.
Original broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Blizzard Award — Best Documentary Series
Quest for the Sea
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Watch Quest for Sea on AmazonTen people return to a lost way of life in a remote fishing village in Newfoundland. Living in two simple wooden homes with only the tools, clothing, and supplies of 1937, five adults and five children must try to get along while living under a mercantile system and relying on cod fishing for their sustenance and survival.
Original broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
Klondike: The Quest for Gold
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Five individuals experience the challenges of life as stampeders of the 1897 Gold Rush to the Klondike. The team of 4 men and one woman will be outfitted with only the clothing, tools and foods of the time period. Starting in Skagway, Alaska, they will travel the 53-kilometre Chilkoot Trail, which includes the notorious 35-degree grade incline to the Chilkoot Pass.
Upon completion of the Trail, the team will travel in hand made wooden boats 800 kilometres up the Yukon River to the town of Dawson City where they will prospect and explore the historic legends of the Klondike.
Original broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
Bomber Boys: The Fighting Lancaster
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As the two groups come together for a flight in one of the world’s only operating Lancasters and to visit prominent European war sites, a special bond emerges, building a bridge between the generations and giving new understanding to the experiences of those who fought in the Second World War.
Original broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
Devil's Brigade
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Watch on AmazonThis series gives viewers a comprehensive and dramatic appreciation of the rigorous training and dangerous combat missions faced by the men of the very first special forces by the US and Canada during WW II. While they were officially called the First Special Service Force, the Nazis called them the Devil’s Brigade as celebrated in the classic MGM film of the same name starring William Holden. Through the use of the successful “living history” production technique, the series will take a select group of present-day Canadian and American soldiers back in time to the early days of specialized warfare. These men will live, train and fight as that first generation of Special Forces did sixty years ago. If they complete their training, these men will be put to the ultimate test: they will travel to Italy to attempt one of the daring Devil’s Brigade missions that were so crucial in bringing about the end of the Second World War. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these young men to find out if they measure up to those who went before.
Original broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
Awards
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Direction in a Documentary Program or Series and Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series
Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit
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Original broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Margaret McWilliams Award — (Manitoba Historical Society) Best Audiovisual Presentation
Winner: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Special Jury Award
Princess
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Known for her tough love on the long running hit series Til Debt Do Us Part, financial expert Gail Vaz Oxlade presents her practical approach to confronting young people with outrageous personal and financial habits . As each “princess” is forced to confront her/his many failings, she/he will learn to live as an independent and responsible adult with proper money habits for a lifetime.
Original broadcaster: Slice
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series
Nomination: Banff World Media Festival Rockie Awards — Best Lifestyle and Information Program
Nomination: Realscreen’s 2012 Factual Entertainment Awards— Lifestyle
Nomination: Factual Entertainment Awards — Lifestyle
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series
The Opener
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(19 x 1 hour episodes)
Iron Chef competitor and star of Restaurant Makeover, David Adjey, has been in the restaurant business his whole life. It’s taken him from working at a neighbourhood greasy spoon to running a top New York hotel. Along the way, he’s become the Keith Richards of the Biz – the restaurant world’s rock star – untamed and very, very talented.
Today, he’s North America’s most sought-after restaurant consultant for hire and in each episode, our hero helps newbie restaurateurs open their dream restaurant – often with their life’s savings on the line.
Original broadcaster: Food Network Canada
Distribution: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Lifestyle Category
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series
Masterminds
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Masterminds is the true crime series that reveals the amazing techniques used by the world’s most brilliant criminals. Each episode of Masterminds gives viewers a glimpse into the extraordinary world of elite heist specialists, escape artists, forgers, cat burglars and smugglers to name only a few.
These criminal geniuses display a level of planning, originality and even artistry that sets them apart from the world of no-hopers. They comprise a rare and exclusive club where the stakes are high and often the biggest thrill is pulling off the perfect crime. For the armchair investigators watching at home, Masterminds combines the excitement of a caper film with the stimulation an ingenious puzzle.
Original broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
Love It or Lose It
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Russian Roulette with a loaded designer! Love It or Lose It is a design show with attitude. In each episode, a homeowner is introduced to three designers – each specializing in a particular style. The homeowners have a space that needs renovation – but they don’t know which designer is chosen to makeover their room. They have to leave the work to the designer and have no input along the way. After the reveal, they have a choice: “Love it” and keep the new room, or “Lose it” forcing our designer to tear it down! With incredible stakes and amazing reveals audiences are always hooked and can’t wait to see what the homeowners decide!
Original Broadcaster: HGTV Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp
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Motivated by a special event (an upcoming wedding, anniversary, vacation, or reunion), participants in Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp strive to transform themselves physically and mentally in just four weeks to lose those last ten pounds.
They are propelled through an intense fitness and nutrition regimen that dramatically resizes them in record time. Their mission: to get ripped. Their reward: fitting into a flattering new outfit.
Original Broadcaster: Slice
Distributor: Syndicado
Bulging Brides
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Here comes the bride, all dressed… and wide? After months of stressful planning and bank-breaking expenses, the final test of a bride’s nerves is the stroll down the aisle in her wedding dress. All eyes will be trained on her, examining every inch of her in that revealing, ultra-fem gown.
Bulging Brides exposes a bride’s struggle to drop unwanted inches so that she can look her very best on her wedding day. The series is co-hosted by every bride’s “Dream Team”: personal trainer Tommy Europe and nutrition specialist Nadeen Boman.
Each half-hour episode features the story of a bride-to-be in the high-anxiety period less than two months before the Big Day. The bride has her dress, but it doesn’t fit. Wracked with stress from the wedding arrangements and unhappy with the thought of not looking her best on her big day, the bride-to-be has turned to the Dream Team as a last resort to lose weight and look breath-taking in her gown.
The intensity of the strict fitness and nutrition programs is heightened by wedding -elated events in the bride’s life, from menu tastings to the bridal showers, which are interwoven throughout the episode. Tempted by rich food and high calorie cocktails at every turn, the bride’s willpower is taxed to the max.
Will she follow the Dream Team’s disciplined path, or will she succumb to temptation? In the end, the measuring tape will tell the tale, as the bride steps into her gown for the highly anticipated final reveal.
Bulging Brides takes the appeal of every weight-loss program and ups the ante with the high anxiety stakes of an imminent wedding, delivering a half-hour of riveting television
Original Broadcaster: Slice
Distributor: Syndicado
Buy It, Fix It, Sell It
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Buy It, Fix It, Sell It follows our experts at auctions at they fight over second-hand gems. They want to buy low then restore or radically repurpose their finds and sell high to shops, collectors, élite clients or at auction. Creativity equals cash for these pros if they have the vision and the skills to back it up. Every episode delivers “wow” transformations, a stunning reveal, and the final sale price. Who will make the most from buying, fixing, and selling
Original Broadcaster: HGTV
Distributor: Syndicado
Breakbound
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Would you leave your successful company, beautiful girlfriend, and family to pursue your dream? What if everyone thought your dream was absolutely crazy? Jeff Karram did. After practicing in his ice-cold home pool in Toronto Canada, he decided to give it all up to become a professional surfer. He travelled the globe searching for the best waves but struggled to develop as a surfer and worse, is hit by a devastating injury. But his life takes an incredible turn when he meets his future wife – a supermodel – and finally competes with the pros. Breakbound is Jeff’s amazing story of courage and adventure set against the backdrop of some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet.
Original broadcaster: OLN
Distributor: Syndicado
Music Rising
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In this documentary filmed with all the key players and featuring Willie Nelson, Arlo Gurthrie and many other legends of New Orleans, we see the catastrophe that was Katrina, the rebuilding and the rebirth of music in the Big Easy.
Original broadcaster: CTV
For further distribution information, please contact info@franticfilms.com
AWARDS
Winner: Accolade TV Awards — Award of Excellence – Direction
Winner: Accolade TV Awards — Award of Merit – Viewer Impact: Motivational/Inspirational
Winner: Telly Awards — Use of Animation in a TV Program – Music Rising (Opening titles)
Winner: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Best Documentary Arts and Culture, Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival
Winner: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Best Documentary Arts/Culture
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Achievement in Editing (Documentary)
Fink
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Fink follows the zealous crusade of visionary culinary arts teacher, Paul Finkelstein as he uses food to bring teenagers together and transform their lives. The series follows Fink through a school term at North-western Secondary where he will face endless obstacles trying to raise the consciousness of a generation bred on junk-food, run a funky fine-food alternative high school cafeteria, and take a wildly diverse group of Culinary Club students on a pilgrimage to the South of France.
Original broadcaster: Food Network Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
Chef School
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Original broadcaster: Food Network
Distributor: Syndicado
Opening Soon
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This highly successful series takes viewers behind-the-scenes to experience the high-pressureexcitement of launching a new restaurant. Every episode features a new restaurant in theprocess of opening with all the hopes and dreams juxtaposed against the fear and harsh realityof opening a successful eatery.
Original broadcaster: Food Network Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/General Interest Series
Winner: WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival — Gold Award
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Opening Soon: What Happened Next
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The Opening Soon series went behind-the-scenes and into the heart of the culinary action, following the true stories of restaurant start-ups from concept to opening night. In this special, we revisit seven Canadian restaurants to ask what happened next…
Original Broadcaster: Food Network Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
Opening Soon By Design
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Original broadcaster: HGTV Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/General Interest Series
Winner: WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival — Gold Award
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Series
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Direction in a Documentary Series
End of Men
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The End of Men is about a stark reality: men are struggling, and a lot of them are completely lost – to drugs and alcohol, anger and aggression, pornography, depression – and silence. It’s a film about the extinction of a way of life, a set of values – and a kind of man.The End of Men takes a very timely look at the reality of men and boys adrift on a sea of change, a loss of identity and sense of purpose, and what the world needs to do to save them. Watch on Amazon.
Original broadcaster: CBC
Distributor: Syndicado
Awards
Nomination: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Documentary Social/Political
Nomination: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Best Director (Non-Fiction)
Fuelled By Passion: The Return of the Jets
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Despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, an indefatigable team led by long-time believer Mark Chipman worked for 15 years to bring an NHL team back to Winnipeg—arguably the biggest comeback in the city’s history.Fuelled By Passion: The Return of the Jets tells the story of how the Jets returned while following the new players from rookie camp to training camp to their first game before the roaring arena of elated fans. Featuring interviews with then-head coach Claude Noel and General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff, the film gives new insight into how the tough choices are made about who makes the team. Featured player include then-captain Andrew Ladd, NHL veterans Eric Fehr and Chris Mason, as well as new hopefuls: Winnipeg’s own Derek Meech and newcomer Mark Scheifele, whose explosive pre-season play allowed the 18-year-old to follow the path of his Barrie Colts coach and mentor, Dale Hawerchuk. We’ll also find out how former Jets great Hawerchuk was instrumental in leading his protégé to Winnipeg.
Original broadcaster: CBC
For distribution information, please contact info@franticfilms.com
Awards
Nomination: Canadian Cinema Editors Awards — Best Editing of a Documentary – Kathryn Dickson
The 13th Man
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It was a uniquely bizarre moment in sports history. With seconds left in the Canadian Football League’s 2009 Grey Cup game, as the Montreal Allouette’s final field goal attempt sailed wide of the uprights, Saskatchewan Roughriders faithful knew that the Cup was theirs. Except – it wasn’t. The 13th Man explores the fine line between winning and wondering what might have been – and in the process, reveals a unique love affair between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and its fans that extends far beyond what happens on the field.
Original Broadcaster: TSN
Distributor: Syndicado
Guinea Pig
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Magician, escape artist, and extreme performer Ryan Stock turns himself into a human guinea pig to test just how far the human body can go. Along with his personal and professional partner, Amberlynn Walker, Ryan travels all over North America – from a speedway in Las Vegas to a reptilian zoo in rural Ontario – to test the limits of pain, endurance, hypothermia, altitude, non-lethal weapons and more.
Original broadcaster: Discovery Channel Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Accolade TV Awards — Award of Excellence Concept
Winner: Accolade TV Awards — Award of Merit – Action/Adventure
Winner: Accolade TV Awards — Award of Merit – Leading Actor
Nomination: Banff World Television Festival Rockie Awards — Best Popular Science and Technology Program
Nomination: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Best Science/Medicine Program
House Poor
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Each episode of House Poor rescues cash-strapped homeowners from a disaster of their own making, as financial expert Suzanne Schultz and contractor Frank Di Leo help a couple find the cash to finish some much-needed home renovations. With $10,000 up for grabs, homeowners must complete Suzanne’s financial challenges, designed to make over their bad money habits, and work with Di Leo to keep their dream renovation on time and on budget.
Original broadcaster: HGTV Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
History's Toughest Soldiers
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Soldiers are tough. But there have always been those who are a cut above the rest.History’s Toughest Soldiers is about how the best soldiers on Earth – past and present – fight, train and conduct themselves in battle. Men and women who protect us and allow us to sleep peacefully through the night.
Whether it is the SAS or the silent-kill teams of the Israeli Defense Force, the ‘new Samurai’ of the Japanese Army – or the US Special forces, these soldiers are given the tools and the training to do the unthinkable – to fight without mercy, to kill without hesitation if need be.
Hosted by Master Sgt. Bill Wolfe – an expert in unarmed combat who has trained soldiers around the world – this series will look at the training, the weapons, and the technologies used by the world’s toughest soldiers to do the impossible.
History’s Toughest Soldiers will take the viewer into Wolfe’s world: an unforgiving place where hard men face even harder choices – kill or be killed.
Distributor: Syndicado
Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier
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Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier is a riveting, true story about a reclusive young woman from small town Canada who captivated the press and made international headlines. Sensationalized in the media as a high-profile catfishing case involving an NBA superstar and an aspiring model, Shelly Chartier was portrayed as a master manipulator who used social media as her weapon. Through the sensitive and intelligent lens of Indigenous directors Lisa Jackson and Shane Belcourt, the sensationalism is swept aside to reveal something much more compelling and complex; the story of a young woman who became a shut-in, labelled a “ghost” by people in her town, who escaped into the virtual world to commit crimes, but also to find love and ultimately, redemption. Co-produced by Frank Digital.
Original Broadcaster: CBC Docs POV
For Distribution information, please contact: info@franticfilms.com
Kitchen Crimes
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Distributor: Syndicado
Last Chance for Romance
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The problems that arise daily for couples have never been more complex. Juggling the demands of work, children, money, and family leaves little time to spend nurturing an intimate relationship and faster than ever, relationships are falling apart.
Now couples have another choice. In each episode, we meet a couple that is given one last chance to save their relationship in a beautiful Caribbean setting. Renowned therapist, Joe Rich, will navigate their difficult and emotional journey along the way as they take their last chance to save their relationship. The ultimate prescription for couples in crisis, this series reveals the private and personal journey of two people trying to rekindle romance.
Original broadcaster: Global Television
Distributor: Syndicado
Makeover Wish
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Makeover Wish asks people across the country to nominate someone they feel deserve a lavish, all-expense-paid home makeover. The focus of this series is on often forgotten small towns, giving the show a homey, rural quality.
Each episode begins with the touching, heartfelt words of a nominator, describing why their friend deserves a Makeover Wish. The nominator joins our production crew, host, and celebrity designer as they surprise the recipient at the front door. Tears flow as the recipient hears why they have been selected and is then whisked away to a nearby hotel for the weekend so that makeover magic can begin.
Over the course of the weekend, the nominator works with our team to renovate a room in the home. It’s a big budget, superbly executed showpiece. It could be a fabulous new bedroom, the world’s coolest family room (complete with state-of-the-art home theatre) or a spectacular living room.
Sunday afternoon the recipient returns for the big reveal. Emotions erupt as they explore a room that has been delivered to them with honor, love, and respect – not to mention a great deal of hard work.
Original Broadcaster: HGTV Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
Animal Miracles
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Somewhere on earth, they happen every day…remarkable events with the power to touch our hearts and nurture our souls, miraculous stories that reflect the majesty, splendor and mystery of life on earth.
Animal Miracles with Alan Thicke shares stories of the close and sometimes uncanny relationships humans share with animals. These touching, true stories take place in people’s homes, on farms, in aquariums and in the wild.
Original Broadcaster: Slice Network
Distributor: Syndicado
Campus Vets
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Campus Vets tells the dramatic stories of student veterinarians at one of the most renowned veterinary schools in North America: the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. This documentary series showcases the best and brightest young vets in training, as they pursue demanding careers of immense responsibility.
Shot at the WCVM’s Teaching Hospital – a full-service, 24-hour facility – the young vets discover that learning to save the lives of animals is the challenge of a lifetime. The series offers an inside look into their compelling efforts to save injured and sick animals. From the working ranch to the high-tech emergency room, Campus Vets chronicles moments where animal owner and veterinarian are bound together in a race against time.Campus Vets features an amazingly diverse range of animals, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. There are stories about companion pets and exotics, such as dogs, cats, ferrets, guinea pigs, iguanas, rabbits and budgies. There are also stories about large animals, such as horses, sheep, cows, oxen, alpacas and llamas. Then there are some really unique creatures, such as the hairless albino rat with the bad complexion, the arctic muskox with the bad molar or the psycho Chihuahua with the bad attitude.
Each half-hour episode blends the urgency of emergency medicine, an owner’s emotional bond with their animal, the high-tech strategies of modern veterinary medicine and unexpected moments of humor. Some of the more complex procedures featured in Campus Vets include an MRI scan on a dog followed by brain surgery, cataract removal on an alpaca, the removal of 20 feet of intestine on a colicky horse and a total hip replacement operation on a dog.Campus Vets is informative, engaging, immediate and provocative television. These real-life stories present articulate and motivated young people who are being thrust into emotionally challenging and physically demanding situations. Some will succeed and thrive on these experiences, while others may find the ordeals too much to bear. Viewers will be transfixed by the ever-changing animal encounters, dynamic emotional range and constant surprising twists in the series.
Original Broadcaster: Life Network
Distributor: Syndicado
Air Dogs
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Two men, two flight plans…. one love….Aviation!
Capt. Robert J. Reichert aka “Rooster” is pilot who is recognised as one of the best of the best. Rooster’s flown just about everything: AWACS during the Gulf war, F-16s at Edwards, and lead solo position with the Snowbirds – some of the most challenging jobs in aviation. He is a pro; skilled, level headed, and experienced.
Mark Miller, while nowhere near Rooster’s pedigree as a pilot, is licensed recreational small plane enthusiast. He is also a science journalist who loves the science of what makes planes work and always has lots of questions
Originally commissioned for Discovery HD and Discovery Civilization, Airdogs focused on the science of aviation; what makes planes work and why have some planes been successful while others weren’t?
Air Dogs is also about the special relationship between Mark and Rooster. Two men, two flight plans…. one love….aviation. Whether it’s delving into the history of an incredible airplane or learning how today’s computer designed composite aircraft are manufactured, we’ll all about eh greatest aircraft ever flown. Each week Rooster, the man with the experience, and Mark, the man with the questions, take viewers on an informative journey through the world of Aviation.
Original Broadcaster: Discovery Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
Industrious
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Big machinery meets old school brawn when Industrious goes deep inside the major Canadian deep water port of Vancouver, British Columbia. With 28 terminals, 600 kilometres of shoreline and nearly 35,000 workers, Industrious captures this vast port as it works to keep the economy humming. Overcoming broken equipment, a punishing schedule, and busloads of lost passengers, find out what happens when crews race to load and unload five very different ships – in just hours – to meet tight deadlines. The stakes are high, as a backup at the port will be felt around the world.
Original Broadcaster: Discovery Channel
Distributor: Syndicado
Peak to Peak
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Peak to Peak is a high-stakes one-hour documentary originally for Discovery Channel that will take you deep inside the struggles to build the world’s highest, longest, and most technically challenging ski lift. For more than a decade the owners of a ski resort in Whistler, British Columbia, dreamed of tying their two mountain peaks together. Now, the race is on to do it on time and on budget: the Peak-to-Peak Gondola had to be completed in less than a year to carry passengers to the Winter Olympics.
The Gondola is an entirely new design, and this was the first attempt at spanning the wide, deep, and notoriously windy valley. Reputations, millions of dollars, and lives were on the line.
Original Broadcaster: Discovery Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
Counterforce
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Counterforce is an unflinching look into the reclusive and clandestine world of the global war against terrorism. This award-winning three-part series profiles elite anti-terrorist units from around the world. Exciting and dramatic scenarios are told through first-hand accounts from the British SAS, US Delta Force and the German GSG9, among many others.
Original broadcaster: History Television
Distributor: Syndicado
Assault and Rescue
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(1 x 1-hour special)
Bound from Tel Aviv to Paris, Air France Flight 139 was hijacked on June 27, 1976, by a group of Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, Uganda. There were 246 passengers and a dozen crew on board – more than half of them Israeli citizens. After several days all non-Jewish passengers were released but the 102 remaining hostages were in grave danger. The Israeli Defense Forces mounted one of the most complicated – and risky – missions ever conceived.
While much of the Entebbe hostage rescue mission has been reported and dramatized, the details and many personal and heroic stories of the operation remained classified until now. Even the internal IDF report on “Operation Thunderbolt” was not completed until 2004. With gripping re-enactments and never-before heard first-person accounts with commandos, pilots, strategists and covert intelligence gatherers, Assault and Rescue: Operation Thunderbolt goes inside the situation rooms, assault staging areas and deadly firefights that allowed the seemingly impossible happen.
Original broadcaster: Discovery Channel Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
Singles Court
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(65x 30m Docuseries)
Finally, justice for singles! Singles Court is an entertaining and innovative television series that examines the true-to-life conflicts of unmarried couples. Singles Court is a conflict resolution show where unmarried couples can find justice for their relationships. Hosted by relationship mediator and lecturer, Angela Segal, Singles Court is a court-style TV show where crimes of the heart are resolved.
Original Broadcaster: OnTV
For Distribution information, please contact: info@franticfilms.com
Raising Big Blue
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In Raising Big Blue scientists discover a buried skeleton of a blue whale and attempt to create a complete skeleton for display in a prominent museum. But it’s not as simple as it seems: first they need to uncover the buried whale, develop a method to clean the appalling stench from the bones and put then all the pieces together.
Original broadcaster: Discovery Channel
Distributor: Syndicado
Rocket Booster Rescue
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In this fascinating documentary, we join the teams responsible for recovering and re-assembling the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) that launched the Space Shuttle into orbit.
A huge team of technicians, seamen and scientists are needed to locate, recover, and rebuild these critical booster rockets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure they are ready to be bolted to the side of a new launch vehicle. The consequences of poor maintenance were witnessed first-hand by millions of television viewers on January 25, 1986, when NASA lost seven lives in the Challenger disaster because of a small fault in one of the SRBs.
Original broadcaster: History Television
For distribution information, please contact info@franticfilms.com
Fantasy Lands
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Original Broadcaster: Travel Channel
Distributor: Syndicado
Gamer Revolution
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Once every few generations, a discovery comes along that revolutionizes the way people spend their time. The movies and television both did it; so did Rock and Roll and Hip Hop.
At the beginning of the 21st century, a new agent provocateur shook the foundations of our cultural life: computer and video games. Gamer Revolution is a ground-breaking leap into pop culture with this intelligent, pop-savvy, and visually stunning compendium of everything you need to know about how video games have re-written the rules of popular culture on a global scale.
Original broadcaster: CBC
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Science Documentary Program
Nomination: Banff World Television Festival Rockie Awards — Best Social and Political Documentary
Rags to Red Carpet
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Rags to Red Carpet brings the glitz and glam of a Hollywood premiere into the lives of women who are in desperate need of a makeover. Throughout the show our beauty professionals share fashion, hair, style and makeup tips that will make a big difference to our “guest star” from their years of experience and from movie stars and fashion models. For the final reveal, our subject pulls up to a theatre in a stretch limo, dressed in a full gown with hair and makeup worthy of an award show. She does a red carpet walk with flashing cameras in front of her most adoring fans – her friends and family. Inside the theatre everyone is treated to scenes from her new film – a transformation trailer featuring day looks, office wear and a variety of flattering styles.
The shows ends with our beautified subject taking a well-deserved bow and we montage in comments of her friends on her transformation – with an “on the spot” movie review feel.
Original broadcaster: CosmoTV
Distributor: Syndicado
Thrill of a Lifetime
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Original Broadcaster: WTN
Distributor: Syndicado
Surviving the Future
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Thought provoking and visually stunning, Surviving the Future explores today’s visions of the future, both utopian and apocalyptic. From scientists striving to create the world of tomorrow to corporations happy with the status quo – and the citizens and consumers in between – this fascinating documentary examines the competing forces that shape the future and the best predictions of what lies ahead.
Original Broadcaster: CBC
Distributor: Syndicado
The Wheels of Change
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In collaboration with Cadbury Canada and the Hive Agency, this documentary spotlights the transformative power and contributions a simple bicycle has had on the economic growth and development of Ghana- the world’s second-largest producer of cocoa.
Established in 2008, Cadbury’s Bicycle Factory initiative aims to provide free bicycles to the country’s rural farm communities in order to facilitate the continuation of education for their youths, where the average commute to school is often five kilometers each way. Since itsinception the program has gone on to donate over 30,000 bicycles, dramatically impacting the socio-economic trajectory of those who receive this relatively simple means of transportation as well as helping close the disparity between rural and urban living.
Wheels of Change serves as a poignant illustration of how the solutions to life’s biggest obstacles can often be found through the most rudimentary answers.
For Distribution, please contact: info@franticfilms.com
AWARDS
Winner: Telly Awards — Documentary Television, BronzeWinner: Telly Awards — Social Responsibility Television, BronzeWinner: The Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival — Honorable Mention AwardNomination: Africa World Documentary Film Festival — Official Selection
Miss Landmine
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Miss Landmine raises awareness of the destructiveness of landmines left behind after times of conflict, challenges traditional perceptions of beauty and people with disabilities. On the heels of a successful event in Africa, theatre director Morten Traavik turns to Cambodia for the next edition of his controversial beauty pageant for landmine survivors. Faced with cries of sexism, exploitation, and a conservative Buddhist culture, Traavik seeks out new expressions of beauty in an increasingly hostile and repressive environment.
Original broadcaster: Discovery Channel
Distributor: Syndicado
The Disappearing Male
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One of the most important but least publicized issues facing the human species is the threat to the male reproductive system. The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect is the cause: a class of common chemicals found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpet, cosmetics, and baby bottles. Known as “hormone mimicking” or “endocrine disrupting” chemicals, they may be damaging the most basic building blocks of human reproduction.
Original broadcaster: CBC
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program
Winner: WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival — Platinum Award 2009
Winner: Yorkton Short Film Festival Golden Sheaf Awards — Best Nature/Environment Documentary
Nomination: Houston Worldfest — Best Science, Technology, Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary Program
Scared of My Shadow
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Scared of My Shadow is a documentary that explores how real and perceived fears are affecting the way North Americans raise their children. Filmmaker Mark Miller sits down with real parents who are worried about their kids’ safety and the safety of their communities. Miller investigates how a culture of fear has created a generation of bubble-wrapped children unable to fend for themselves. He then presents the various sociological theories about the damage this “over protection” may have on society a generation from now. Themes include the role of media in public paranoia, changing patterns in parenting, anxiety-based disorders, public health, crime trends in rural and urban communities, adolescent development as well as violence towards, and by, young people. Watch on Amazon.
Original broadcaster: CBC
For distribution information, please contact info@franticfilms.com
A Pitchin' In Christmas
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This holiday season, Chef Lynn Crawford has something extra special planned. In her hit series, Pitchin In, Lynn travelled across the country to meet the people who grow some of the best ingredients in the world. Now she’s invited some of the friends she met in her travels to share Christmas dinner at her house. Each will bring their amazing ingredients to be used in creating Lynn’s ultimate holiday dinner.
Original broadcaster: Food Network Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
Almost Legal
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Original broadcaster: Life Network
Distributor: Syndicado
The Surgeons
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This series takes viewers directly to the scalpel’s edge for powerful, emotional stories about the people whose job is to fight disease and save lives. With remarkable access to doctors and their patients, The Surgeons captures the high drama of life in the operating room.
Each episode features a top surgeon and the leading-edge techniques they use in medical specialties that include “awake” brain surgery, a double-lung transplant, a hand re-attachment, robotics and fetal surgery. From the skill and precision required to wield a scalpel to the heart-wrenching task of delivering bad news, the demands on most surgeons exceed the boundaries of normal human experience. Tracking the incredible highs along with the devastating lows, this is gripping television revealing the extraordinary world that is the everyday life of these modern heroes.
Original broadcaster: Slice Network
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDS
Winner: WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival — Gold Award
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/General Interest Series
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Science, Technology
Nomination: Gemini Awards — Best Lifestyle/General Interest Series
The Feud
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We’ve all had disagreements with neighbours, colleagues, family members and friends, but for some, the issues escalate from mere irritations to all-out war. When that happens, things can really heat up and sometimes end up in court… or worse.
The Feud takes troubled relationships in extreme situations to a better place. Instead of fighting it out across the backyard fence – or in court – our participants will work with our highly skilled host, The Mediator. She’s a respected expert in conflict resolution with a take-no-B.S. attitude, who will help guide these would-be Hatfields and McCoys out of conflict and into resolution.
Not only will The Mediator provide The Feuders with her services, but she will also have up to $5,000 to help resolve the dispute. How she allocates this money will depend on the merits of each of their claims, their behaviour during the show, and their willingness to genuinely work together toward a solution.
All the work leads up to the pivotal moment when our Feuders must make their final choice: agree to a mutually beneficial outcome that will give them a cash reward or continue fighting.
Original Broadcaster: CBC
For distribution information, please contact info@franticfilms.com
Play Fair
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Play Fair is a compelling, unflinching, and visually rich documentary that examines women’s ongoing fight for equal rights in the world of sports. The film explores five decades of activism and legal challenges to ensure women would have equal access and rights to compete in sports at all levels. There have been many victories, but has equity really been achieved?
For distribution information, please contact info@franticfilms.com
The Disciples
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This documentary follows a young Christian rock band inside the heart of the Christian entertainment world, where the sacred and the secular dissolve into one and the battle for cultural and religious supremacy is waged on the dance floor – not in the pulpit.
Original broadcaster: WTN
Distributor: Syndicado
UberGuide Television
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UberGuide is an exciting travel and lifestyle television series devoted to exploring the world’s most extravagant, extreme, and exclusive experiences. Featuring a combination of expert insight, saucy narration, and the first-hand insider views, each one-hour episode is a fast-paced, action-packed top ten countdown as we make our way to the extraordinary number one spot on the list.
UberGuide takes people to places they have never before seen or perhaps even imagined…. These are “uber” experiences far above and beyond the ordinary.
Original Broadcaster: Travel & Escape
Distibutor: Syndicado
Peter Jordan's Grey Cup Adventure
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Host Peter Jordan travels the country to meet die-hard fans of the Canadian Football League in this half hour documentary.
Client: Canadian Football League
Broadcaster: CBC
For Distribution, please contact: info@franticfilms.com
AWARDS
Winner: Gemini Awards — Best Sports Feature Segment
Morimoto Raw
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Join world-renowned Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto as he prepares to launch his multi-milliondollar namesake flagship restaurant, MORIMOTO.
Becoming the gold standard for contemporary Japanese cuisine in the culinary capital ofPhiladelphia won’t be easy… that’s why Masaharu has enlisted the help of eminent restaurateurStephan Starr and design guru Karim Rashid to bring his life-long dream to fruition. Watch asMorimoto and his team race against the clock to source the globe’s finest ingredients andmaster complex dishes to perfect the ultimate “omakase” menu ahead of the open.
Will Morimoto realize his vision to become America’s premier destination for innovativeJapanese dining or will the viewer be left unsatiated?
Original broadcaster: Food Network Canada
Distributor: Syndicado
AWARDSWinner: Morimoto RAW — Best Television Special
