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Stornoway Productions: TV Programs
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Canada’s Brain
Drain
(1-Hour Special), Broadcasts: Nov./ Dec., 1999 and 30 replays in year
2000. Global Television, Prime Cable Talent and technology are erasing
borders. Canada's best seek out the best professional environment. And
the United States is making offers they can’t refuse. This explosive
documentary explores the global battle for brains. Can Canada keep its
best at home? Or, get them back?
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Days of Reckoning
(3 X 1 hour), 1998 Access Alberta and WNED Documents the journey taken
by seven young Canadians as they try to determine how Canada's political
systems work and who is accountable for the crushing financial burden
that looms over them. |
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Dragons Of Crime
(1 hour) For CBC Newsworld, National Film Board and A&E, 1994 Following
the trail of "snakeheads", smugglers of illegal Chinese immigrants,
Dragons of Crime takes the viewer inside what is now the number one
priority of law enforcement agencies in North America: Asian organized
crime. |
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Yellow Brick Roads
(26 X 30 minutes)For CBC Newsworld and TVO, 1994-96 An offbeat and
entertaining perspective on eclectic careers and the people who live
them; they're provocative, witty, wild and funny. Our viewers share with
these characters the powerful, emotional and sometimes practical reasons
that motivate them. |
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The
Hunt For Red Mercury
(1 hour) A CTV, Discovery, FCI, ORF, Stornoway Coproduction, 1993 The
break up of the Soviet Union has turned Europe in a candy store of
military goods. Everything from used uniforms to the top of the line
Soviet tanks and aeroplanes are for sale. But it is not the sale of
conventional military hardware that worries Western officials. They feel
that nuclear materials are being smuggled out of the former Eastern Bloc
and ending up in the wrong hands.
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Out Of The Shadows
(a.k.a. Shevardnadze Uncovered)
(1 hour) A Discovery, FCI, ORF, CITY, Stornoway Coproduction, 1992-93 An
undercover account of the current forces behind the chaos that threatens
the peoples of the former Soviet Union. The program is based on the
example of Eduard Shevardnadze, who is applauded in the West as a
crusader for peace. But to many Georgians struggling for freedom, he is
a ruler of the most corrupt kind.
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