George Hargrave
Producer/Director/President of Nutaaq Media, Inc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
He also produced and directed 3 films for the Fur Council of Canada,
one of which was versioned in 7 languages.
