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.  

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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