(2011 – present) – (A&E and Blue Ant Media, 67×1)
Intervention Canada is a one-hour documentary series that takes an intimate look at the daily reality of life as an addict. It provides an unflinching glimpse at addiction from all sides – including the addict, as well as the dreadful toll on their families and friends. Each episode culminates in a dramatic intervention led by a prominent interventionist in which the addicts must decide whether to continue their descent to rock bottom, or accept an offer for a clear path to recovery in one of Canada’s top addiction treatment facilities. Broadcast simultaneously the US and Canada on A&E and Blue Ant’s T&E. Winner of the Golden Sheaf Award for Lifestyle and Reality at the Yorkton Film Festival 2019 and 2020. CSA nominated as Best Reality Series and winner of Best Editing in a Reality Series, 2018.
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.