(2017 – present) (TVO Original, 24×30)
Political Blind Date is match making for the country’s politicians, a hook-up over pressing issues, the tinder of policymaking. In each episode, two different politicians, adversaries from opposites ends of the spectrum, get to take each other on a day long series of “dates” to see people and locations that best support their point of view. This is rare one-on-one time immersed with an opponent and people directly affected by the issue in question. It is an original show on pub caster TVO, recently renewed for a fifth season.
Format has been optioned in the UK, Spain, Belgium, Israel and South Africa.
Work
Yearbook
(2024) (TVO Original, 6×30) Political Blind Date The series follows the meaningful and nostalgic journey back to people's youth as they attempt to reconnect with key people from [...]
Political Blind Date
(2017 - present) (TVO, 24x30) – This hit original documentary series and format seeks to see what happens when you send two politicians from opposite ends of the spectrum out on “blind dates” based around an issue they disagree on.
Intervention Canada
(2011 - present) – (A&E and Blue Ant Media, 67x1) Based on the Emmy Award winning A&E series Intervention, this documentary series seeks to intervene and help those trapped in a deadly cycle of addiction.
Margin of Error
(2020 – TVO, 60’) feature documentary in post-production that follows Ottawa-based company Advanced Symbolics, Inc. which uses an artificial intelligence algorithm they call “Polly” to scrape social media platforms and predict election outcomes more accurately than traditional pollsters.
Cracked Not Broken
(2007 – HBO, 52’) this feature documentary is a searing portrait of a crack addicted prostitute from the “right side of town”.
Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop
(2006- Sundance Channel, 80’ and 52’) feature documentary for Sundance Channel, tackles the subject of the assault of big box corporate America on independent business, through the eyes of Emmy Award winning former NBC foreign correspondent Hanson Hosein and his journalist wife Heather Hughes.
Pure Intentions
(2012 - CBC/Doc Channel, 70’) – feature documentary which looks at the challenges encountered by a high profile first world philanthropist as he tries to deal with the reality of post apartheid education in South Africa.
Black Nation
(2009 – SVT and The Swedish Film Institute, 80’ and 52’) theatrical feature documentary takes a hard look at the state of black manhood in America, through the prism of the streets of Detroit past and present and that city’s controversial Church of the Black Madonna.
Independent America: Rising From Ruins
(2009, Super Channel 71’) – feature documentary film that focuses on the crucial role played by independent business during and after Hurricane Katrina.