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George Hargrave, has been an independent producer and director
for over 18 years. He has a masters degree in communications from Concordia
University where his field of interest was the use of interactive media
to teach television production techniques.
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In 1991, he produced Endurance of the spirit: The Two Worlds of
Laurie Dexter, a 26 min. film for CBC's Man Alive series about NWT
marathon runner, triathlete, polar adventurer and Anglican Minister
Laurie Dexter and Running the Midnight Sun,
a one-hour documentary for television about the world's most northerly
Marathon race in Nanisivik on Baffin Island. |
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He also produced a TV documentary about a strange northern event.
This production, Invasion of the Beer People,
made for CBC Newsworld about a heavy metal rock concert in Tuktoyuktuk,
NWT, was directed by Albert Nerenberg and broadcast in January,
1996. |
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The same year, he produced and CO-directed, The
Disappearing Forests of Eeyou Astchee, a 46 minute documentary
about forestry and the Cree of Northern Quebec for the Grand Council
of the Cree of Quebec. |
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In February 1997, George completed the production of Tabala:
Rhythms in the Wind, a television documentary by writer-director
Erica Pomerance about the impact of black music in Quebec. This
will be shown on Vision TV, CFCF, the Knowledge Network, SCN, and
TV5. |
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He is also producer on Picturing a people:
George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer, a documentary CO-production
with the NFB. Directed by Carol Geddes, this documentary chronicles
one of Canada's first native photographers. For Broadcast on TVO,
Bravo, SCN, Knowledge Network, CFCF and TVNC. |
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In 1984 he produced broken promises: The
High Arctic Relocation, in CO-production with the NFB. It was
sold to Radio Canada, CFCF, ATV, SCN, the BC Knowledge Network,
CKCO, CKY, CFCN, CFRN, Vision TV and Television Northern Canada. |
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He also produced Radio Novelas, a documentary
about community radio in native communities. It was shown on TVNC
in northern Canada and will be broadcast in the south by CFCF and
TV5. |
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He went to the North Pole in 1987 as CO-director and CO-producer
of North to Nowhere: Quest for the Pole,
a 1988 documentary film about the 5 arctic expeditions which went
to the Pole that year. This film won 3 Gemini Awards in Canada and
has been seen by audiences in the United States, Britain, France,
Germany, Italy and Australia. |
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He also directed Nutaaq's first CD-ROM project which
put over 1,000 photographs and related information onto a single
CD-ROM disc. The Nunavik Heritage CD-ROM
was produced for Kativik School Board and the Avataq Cultural Institute. |
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"Welcome to Nunavut"
is a delightfully frank and often funny film that reflects the inherent
drama and conflicts of key people, who are all furiously working
towards this one in history- each with their own purpose, each intent
on making history in their own way. |
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He also produced and directed 3 films for the Fur Council of Canada,
one of which was versioned in 7 languages. |
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