Directed by Sarah Goodman   Produced by Mark Johnston, Amanda Handy and  Sarah Goodman 

Cinematography Mark Ellam   Editor Caroline Christie 

Original Score Jim Guthrie    Sound Mix Daniel Pellerin    Sound Design Elma Bello

 

Sarah Goodman | Director/Producer: Sarah Goodman’s first feature documentary film Army of One was the winner of the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival Award for Best Canadian Feature in 2004, and she was nominated for a Gemini for Best Director the same year. The film aired internationally, including Discovery Times Channel, BBC, The Documentary Channel, IFC, and the CBC, and released theatrically in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver, as well as touring festivals worldwide.

Goodman’s latest feature When We Were Boys, about the adolescent culture at an elite private boys’ school, is produced by Nomad Films in association with documentary, and will premier at Hot Docs in May 2009.

Goodman is also developing a feature documentary about JFK’s speechwriter Ted Sorensen, entitled Man of His Word, with producer Danny Iron, in association with documentary. Goodman is making her debut as a writer/director of dramatic fiction with the feature script Bridging which she co-wrote. Bridging is being produced by Triptych Media and Federgreen Entertainment; has received support from Telefilm and the Harold Greenberg Fund and is slated for production in summer 2010.

Goodman also writes and directs non-fiction episodic television for History Television, BBC, Discovery, and the W Network.

 

Mark Ellam | Cinematographer/Director

Over a dozen years of feature documentary filmmaking, Mark Ellam has brought his unique cinematic vision to reality.  His efforts in cinematography and direction in independent productions have helped to create a number of award winning films for both cinema and television. Theatrically, his work as a cinematographer has screened in over 40 countries and aired internationally on National Geographic, TV5, SBS, YLE, DRK, History Television and at home in Canada on the CBC, CTV, RDI, TVO, Bravo, Showcase and the Doc Channel. As a director and producer, his films have been seen on Channel 4, Tele5 Espana, Dutch A1, ANEM, SCN and CTV.

Highlights include THE TAKE directed by Avi Lewis and written by Naomi Klein (AFI best feature documentary), BIG SUGAR (Prix Gemeaux & Golden Sheaf Award for best documentary – going undercover to shoot Haitian plantation workers suffering under conditions of slavery), EMPZ 4 LIFE (Allan King’s film on Black youth in a high-risk community – nominated for both Best Cinematography and the Donald Brittain Award at the Gemini Awards of 2007), A Promise To The Dead (Peter Raymont’s film, winner of the Gemini/Donald Brittain award for Best Documentary and shortlisted for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary).

Large-scale recreations have included Galafilm’s Gemini nominated THE GREAT WAR, an epic period docu-drama for the CBC, and Barna Alper’s MEDAK POCKET, reenacting Canada’s peacekeeping battles in Croatia.

Currently on tour in in theatres and in festivals, Mark was associate director and cinematographer on RIP: A Remix Manifesto – the first open source documentary produced for theatrical release by the National Film Board of Canada, the Doc Channel and EYESTEELFILM. Also with EYESTEELFILM, Mark has been co-directing and shooting Atanasoff: the Forgotten Father of the First Computer. His own feature project is being developed with Nomad Films of Toronto. 

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Amanda Handy | Producer: Amanda joined Nomad Films in 2007 as a Partner and Producer. Successfully leveraging her diverse film and television experience, Amanda has created and implemented a number of initiatives to position Nomad as a leading company in the film and television industry.

As one of the companies’ partners Amanda’s focus is not only on the company’s development, production and distribution activities, but also on the strategic development of the business, the company’s marketing and branding, and also overseeing operations, human resources and publicity. Since joining Nomad Amanda has worked as a producer on the critically acclaimed THE AL QAEDA CODE, and is currently producing the ambitious four-part documentary series EMPIRE OF THE WORD.

Other major upcoming projects include dramatic feature films such as the Afghan film ACT OF DISHONOUR, directed by Nelofer Pazira and co-produced with Dan Iron of Foundry Films (AWAY FROM HER) and IN THE SHADOW OF A SAINT, which tells the story of Nigerian writer and martyr, Ken Saro-Wiwa and is slated for production in 2008 with Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou playing Saro-Wiwa. Triptych Media (EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC, THE HANGING GARDEN) will co-produce.

Mark Johnston | Producer: Mark has produced, directed and written many documentaries such as IN THE SHADOW OF A SAINT (BBC, CBC); THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARAH MCLACHLAN (CBC); JEAN’S MARINES (W Network); BEETALKER (CBC’s Nature of Things, ARTE France); RIDDLE OF THE POLAR SKY (Discovery Science, WDR ARTE), THE CLIMB (CBC, National Geographic Canada, Discovery HD) and most recently, THE AL QAEDA CODE, a thrilling documentary for CBC,ZDF/ARTE and SBS Australia that looks at the use of the Internet to train and recruit jihadists around the world. 

His producing work for Nomad includes a number of feature documentaries: THE MAN WHO BECAME KING (CBC, National Geographic International and Sundance Channel) and WHEN WE WERE BOYS (Documentary Channel). Mark is currently post-producing the four-part documentary EMPIRE OF THE WORD for TVO, SBS Australia, TG4 Ireland and TFO, about the impact of reading and writing on human history. 

Nomad recently completed shooting the feature flm, Act of Dishonour, directed by Nelofer Pazira and coproduced with Daniel Iron of Foundry Films (AWAY FROM HER, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES). Other major upcoming projects include the dramatic feature flm In the Shadow of a Saint, which tells the story of Nigerian writer and martyr, Ken Saro-Wiwa. It is slated for production in Fall, 2009 with Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou as Saro-Wiwa. Triptych Media (EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC, THE HANGING GARDEN) will co-produce.

 

Jim Guthrie | Original Score: Jim Guthrie has released 3 critically acclaimed solo records and has been nominated twice for a Juno.  He was a member of Royal City and co-founded Toronto indie label Three Gut Records.  He has shared the stage with Sarah Harmer, Beck, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Daniel Johnston and many more.  More recently he’s been involved with various projects for film and TV and is working on a new album.

 

Jason Milligan: Jason started volunteering in the Toronto film industry in 1999 as a boom operator and began recording sound for short films soon after.  In 2000, Jason started working in television on the documentary series “Skin Deep,” which won the 2001 Gemini for best Lifestyle Series, and “Birth Stories,” a very successful 100 episode series produced by Cineflix.  Since 2002, Jason has recorded sound for the feature length documentary films “Dying at Grace” by Allan King, “The Take” by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein (nominated for a Best Sound Gemini), “Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company” (nominated for a Best Sound Gemini), “EMPz for Life” by Allan King, “Inside Hana’s Suitcase” (Rhombus Media) by Larry Weinstein and “The Young Romantic” (Rhombus Media) by Barbara Willis Sweete).  In early 2008, Jason traveled with The Stephen Lewis Foundation to South Africa and Swaziland to document the Canadian grandmothers trip to Africa.

 Recently, Jason has worked on the documentaries “Mom’s Home” by Maureen Judge, “Science of the Soul” (Associated Producers) by Bruce Thorson, “The Experimental Eskimos” (White Pine Pictures) by Barry Greenwald, “Badge of Pride” (Hungry Eyes) by Min Sook Lee, “My Toxic Baby” (Storyline Entertainment) by Min Sook Lee, “Cat City” (Red Queen Productions) by Justine Pimlot, “Cat Ladies” (Chocolate Box) by Christie Callan Jones, “When We Were Boys” (Nomad Films) by Sarah Goodman, and “Water On The Table” by Liz Marshall.