NOT OF THIS EARTH (1 x 60’ HD TV)
Documentary /
UFO / Science
Canamedia
Film Productions
Inc. &
Texada Films
Humanity has held a long fascination with Outer Space… but why? Is it our wish to reconnect with our Creators, in essence God? What drives us to explore the depths of the cosmos? This documentary proposes we are in search of the Origin of Ourselves, looking for physical evidence of who we are and what we are, chasing a distant memory located in our genetics perhaps thousands of years old. For these answers however, we do not have to go far.
Within the oral traditions of indigenous peoples, lay the answers to many unanswered questions. Oral tradition has been widely ignored by the scientific community, categorizing their fantastic stories as legends or myth.
Not of This Earth will listen to the respected native leaders and elders from approximately eight different communities as they relay their oral traditions, exposing who these aliens are and why they continue to visit Earth. Based on the information, this HDTV film will extrapolate their intentions for earth and its inhabitants. Not of This Earth adds a new complexity and depth to our knowledge of the Alien phenomenon not yet seen in any recorded UFO production.
ALIENS AMONG US
(1x60’)
Documentary /
UFO / Science
Canamedia
Film Productions
Inc. &
Texada Films
“Aliens
Among Us” will
be a brand new
kind of program.
Utilizing C.G.I
images based on
actual sightings
it tackles the
latest questions
facing the UFO
phenomenon
today.
It does
not deal with
typical UFO fare
found in similar
documentaries
like crop
circles, UFO
sightings, or
Area 51.
Instead, the
intent of
“Aliens Among
Us” is to
explain the
various species
of aliens that
claim to have
been sited on
Earth.
The program will
consist of three
parts and will
focus the
investigation on
five types of
alien races. It
will reveal what
the aliens look
like, where they
come from, and
why they are
here. Guest
eyewitnesses
will recount
their
experiences
through five
intriguing
stories about
aliens from
distant worlds
while guest
experts from
various
scientific and
social
disciplines
comment. It will
be produced by
the same team
who made
A&E’s
Alien Obsession.
Coral
Champions
(1x60’)
Documentary
/ Enviornmental
Canamedia
Film
Productions
Inc &
David Lees
Recently,
more than
1,000 of the
world’s top
marine
scientists
called for a
moratorium
on bottom
trawling, an
industrial
fishing
technique in
which steel
plates and
nets are
dragged
across the
ocean
bottom,
destroying
the coral
that grows
there. The
scientists
issued a
statement at
the end of a
U.N.
conference
on
biological
diversity,
in February,
2004, noting
that until
recently,
few people
– even
marine
scientists
– knew
that coral
grows, and
thrives, in
cold
northern
waters.
But
the destruction
of deep-sea
coral is now
implicated in the
collapse of
fishery stocks
in the North
Atlantic . This
is a story
not only
about an
endangered
natural
species but
about a way
of life that
has been all
but
destroyed by
industrial
fishing
practices.
CHILD BRIDES
(1x60’)
Social
documentary)
Canamedia Film Productions Inc., TVNF, India
Set in India,
Child Brides
will show the
entire child
marriage process
from beginning
to end. It will
explain the
social
psychology of
this tradition
by uncovering
the historical,
religious, and
economic reasons
behind it. It
will explore why
India’s child
marriages are so
entrenched in
Indian culture
and will ask the
question: how
justified are
its defenders in
believing that
child marriages
are a sacred
tradition?
Child Brides will be a very personalized documentary.
We will follow the children
through their
wedding
ceremony. Then
we will follow
an adolescent
couple from
their muklava
ceremony to the
groom’s home,
where married
life begins. We
will witness the
problems of
childbearing on
girls who are
too young and
the
complications
that often lead
to the frail
mother’s death
during
delivery. We
will meet a
number of women
who were child
brides, some of
whom are now
living in
North America.
They will tell
their stories
that go beyond
the physical
pain wreaked
upon their young
bodies, as they
share their
feelings about
being forced
into the
matrimonial game
before they were
women.
HOT ROCKS
(1x60’)
Anthropological/Crime
Canamedia Film
Productions Inc.
and Leslie
Anthony
Exotic
locations;
organized crime;
briefcases full
of cash; armed
thugs;
International
smuggling;
security guards;
vandalism; and a
host of
passionate,
dedicated
personalities
involved in one
of the world’s
blossoming
black-market
industries…fossils.
Fossils are one
of the hottest
and most
controversial
commodities of
the new
millennium.
Whether it’s
because they
represent former
life and
therefore
touchstones to
an unfathomable
past, or because
of their high
profile in pop
culture, fossils
have captured
the human heart
and mind in a
profound way.
SWAMP DOCTOR
(1x60’)
Science and
Biotechnology
Canamedia Film
Productions Inc.
There are almost
600,000
abandoned mines
in Canada and
the United
States, and more
than 70 billion
tons of tailings
and waste rock
which are a
continuing
source of toxic
run-off. Privately, the
corporate
directors of
mining companies
believe that AMD
cannot be
corrected or
prevented. So
they have
tackled the
problem
halfheartedly at
best, with
traditional
tools -
chemicals,
dynamite and
earthmovers.
Inevitably they
have failed.
Recently a
Canadian
biologist has
found that the
run-off can be
treated in
natural
wetlands, where
plants, algae
and microbes
balance the pH
of the water,
causing the
metals in it to
settle out.
Gradually,
buried in the
oxygen-deprived
sediment at the
bottom of the
pond the
metals are
re-mineralized
by bacteria. In
other words,
they are bound
up again into
stable,
insoluble
molecules.
HISTORY
LAID BARE
(8
x60’)
Historical/Sociological
Canamedia and
Figments Of
Imagination
Productions
It’s time to
strip some
famous people
and peep into
the bedrooms,
Roman baths and
boudoirs of the
past. This HD
series, hosted
by a personality
like Kim Catrall
and using the
very latest CGI
techniques aims
to put back SEX
into our
knowledge of
history.
The sheer
creativity and
diversity when
it comes to
horizontal (and
not so
horizontal)
amusements is
astounding. Many
people now seem
to have the
impression that
Madonna invented
sex. In his
seminal book
History Laid
Bare, Richard
Zacks unearthed
scores of
previously
undiscovered
gems. This
series will
spill the beans
on all the
stories that
your history
teacher never
did, including:
-Napoleon’s
wedding night:
in bed with
Josephine…and
her dog
-Horny wives
endangering the
Norman Conquest
-Pope Alexander
VI’s Orgy at the
Vatican
-An American
Civil War
Prostitute’s
Diary
There’s more
than two
thousand years
of history and
writing about
sex that we can
delve into, a
rich tapestry of
stories and
events, from the
surprising to
the shocking.
The approach of
this series
would be to have
our present day
host lead us
into the time
period (using
CGI and scene
settings from
movies) to set
the stage for
each of our
scenes, giving
us the
background, the
story behind the
story, the
context – before
we (tastefully)
jump under the
covers. The
settings are
lush, shot in a
graceful and
tasteful manner.
We will then
enact these
scenes in period
costume, or at
least partially
in costume. The
writings we have
are very often
in the first
person, so we
will have the
main character
also take the
role of narrator
as the scene
plays out,
telling us in
the first person
what is
happening, what
they are
thinking and
what they are
feeling. We will
see the scene
tastefully
brought to its
climax before we
pull out to our
“voyeur host and
with her move
through time and
space on to the
next passionate
encounter.
The easiest way
to structure
this eight part
series is
chronologically:
Ancient Ages,
Classical Times,
The Middle Ages,
The Renaissance,
The Seventeenth
Century, The
Eighteenth
Century, The
Nineteenth
Century and
Modern Times.
This is not all
about scandalous
affairs and
latent
homosexuality,
though of course
they both figure
prominently.
There are also
some bizarre
characters, like
a medieval
German priest
named Burchard
of Worms. In
1018 A.D. he
catalogued more
than
150different
sexual sins and
their
punishments,
including the
penance required
when a woman
smears herself
with honey,
rolls in flour
and bakes a loaf
of aphrodisiacal
bread. There is
the confession
of Scottish
witch Isabel
Gowdie, who in
1668 A.D. gave a
detailed
description of
sex with the
devil, right
down to his ice
water sperm. 200
years later in
America ,
there’s the
long-overlooked
diary of a civil
war prostitute.
“The praying
general was
brought in today
by Preacher H.
He is rough and
brutal. After I
serviced him, he
dropped to his
knees and asked
God to forgive
me for my sins!”
This is not
fiction; this is
contemporary
reporting, very
often from
eyewitnesses.
Flaubert filled
his travel
notebooks with
tales of belly
dancers. Mark
Twain delivered
a speech on
masturbation.
Joan of Arc’s
trial records in
Latin testify
that during her
trial for
witchcraft, she
was physically
tested for
virginity twice.
Her enemy, the
Duke of Bedford
watched through
a peephole both
times.
In short, this
series aims to
amuse, enlighten
and to fill a
gap left to us
by the
Puritanical
deletions in our
history texts
since Victorian
times and
exposes us for
whom we really
are: creatures
of comfort,
desire, longing
and imagination.
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