GOLDI PRODUCTIONS LTD.

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Joan and John started as high school teachers, served as CUSO volunteers in East Africa for two years, taught in Toronto high schools, and spent 14 years in Canada's North West Territories, first as teachers in remote Inuit and Dene communities for six years, and later as filmmakers in Yellowknife, NWT.

They traveled all over the north, in every season of the year by canoe, boat, small plane, snowmobile, and dogsled. They often traveled  with Inuit and Dene families on extended trips in all seasons, on camping trips that involved hunting expeditions for caribou, seals, bear, and geese. They frequently lived in tents at -40 Celsius, and shot from helicopters - with the door off -  in the Arctic in January and February.

They moved their office back to the Toronto area in 1988, and since then have traveled across Canada several times shooting and producing Canadian programs for television and Canadian Government departments.

All the programs produced by Goldi Productions Ltd. have been aired on television. Canadian broadcasters include CBC Network and regional broadcasters, Radio-Canada, The Discovery Channel, Life Network, ACCESS Alberta, BC Knowledge Network, and the Saskatchewan Communications Network. Programs produced for television have been seen in many countries.

As well, we are pleased that hundreds of educational film and video professionals from hundreds of Boards of Education and Public Libraries from across Canada, have placed countless copies of our films and videos about Canada and Canadians in thousands of schools and libraries across Canada, helping us to fulfill our company motto:

More copies of our Canadian heritage and outdoor safety films and videos can be found in Canadian schools, libraries, government, and corporate offices than those of any other Canadian documentary producer.

Goldi Productions has, to date, won 113 international Awards and Honours for its film, television, and video production work.

Producer/Screen Writer: Joan Goldi:

Joan Goldi has done the principal research, coordination of production, and the principal writing on all film and video productions done by Goldi Productions since 1979. Joan has served as a juror selecting the nominees for the Genie Awards for documentaries and features.

Executive & On-line Editor: John Goldi has edited all Goldi Productions films and videos since 1979 (over 100 programs). He was the Supervising Editor on the series, "Outdoor Adventure Canada" and did the recut, finecut, and the video and audio post-production and onlines for all programs in that series.

CURRENT PROJECTS:

"THE CANADA BOER WAR CENTENNIAL PROJECT" which includes:

- Production of a two hour special documentary: "The Great Anglo-Boer War: The Canadian Experience", commissioned by HISTORY TELEVISION to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Canada's first ever military expedition overseas to fight in a foreign war.

-Production of a website to remember Canada's participation in the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa.

This is one of the few television projects selected by the Canadian Government's Millennium Bureau to become a Canadian Millennium Partnership Project to celebrate Canada and Canadians at the start of a new Millennium.

We thank our project sponsors and participants for allowing us to pursue our primary passion:

HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR PRODUCTION CAREER INCLUDE:

OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CANADA: A Series of 26 Half-Hour Television Programs

-We created, produced, and shot "OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CANADA", (1996-97) which to date has won 76 international television awards (including 27 Gold & Silver Medals in just over a year) for 66% of its programs (17 episodes). At three different festivals, three of our silver medals were beaten by three of our Golds competing in the same category. The show also won outstanding ratings and wonderful viewer mail.

"Outdoor Adventure Canada" grew out of the Goldis' desire to pass on to others the deep enjoyment they have had in exploring Canada's fascinating outdoors, and listening to the many stories that Canadians have to tell about themselves. "Outdoor Adventure Canada" embodies Goldi Productions Ltd.'s motto,

by providing Canadians with an entertaining and informative documentary series that is unabashedly and proudly Canadian.

This series was selected (1996) from among 251 "extremely high-quality submissions" from television producers from across Canada, by a committee of the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund and Atlantis Broadcasting,  as one of only 10 series fo be developed for possible production. Our series, "Outdoor Adventure Canada" was one of the few which was finally selected for production. It went to air on Life Network.

With great and heartfelt thanks from us all, to JAN PLATT, a founding partner of Atlantis, the first Canadian to accept an Academy Award (an Oscar) for drama, a person unreservedly respected and admired throughout our industry, and whose inspiration and love for Canada brought "Outdoor Adventure Canada" to Life.

Producer/Screen Writer: Joan Goldi. (See Above)

Director/Cinematographer: John Goldi csc. The much-praised videography featured in "Outdoor Adventure Canada" was all done by cinematographer John Goldi csc. (See Above)

Executive & On-line Editor: John Goldi was the Supervising Editor on the series, and did the recut, finecut, and the video and audio post-production and onlines for all programs in "Outdoor Adventure Canada" .

Offline Editors: Gina Binetti, Bill Crocker, Sandra Gabriel, Christa Schadt. Without their hard work, unstinting good humour, and love for the people in these shows, "Outdoor Adventure Canada" would not have glowed as brightly as it now does.

Music Written & Performed by: David Woodhead: Well-known performing musician in Canadian folk music circles, composer and performer of many pieces in the Perry Music Library, former member of the band of the late, great Stan Rogers, one of Canada's most famous folk musicians. David did virtually all the music for the series. Its excellence is a large contributing reason for the outstanding viewer response to all those programs.

Production Assistants: Allan Canney, Katherine Colbourn, Annabelle Forde, Matt Smith, Peter Van

Webmasters: Sam Fleischman, Matt Smith, Catherine Herrera, Mark de Leon, MIke Perez, Alex Mok

Our boat, a one-design of wood, was built in England in 1956. We are the fourth owner. It belonged for decades to an American dinghy champion. Most Wayfarers are now made of fiberglass.

Information about the Canadian Wayfarer Association can be found at www.angelfire.com/de/whiffle/. The Whiffle is the association's magazine and newsletter which carries information on all the activities, regatta results, and lists of Wayfarers for sale - from $2500 to $3000 race-rigged. A truly family fleet of men and women, our youngest racers are 10 and 11 and our oldest is 88!

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR PRODUCTION CAREER INCLUDE:

- We produced our first one-hour television documentary film on Dene (Sub-Arctic) First Nations people, which:

- won a Bronze Plaque at the Houston International Film & Television Awards, (behind National Geographic's Silver, and a PBS Gold),

- was premiered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and before the European Parliament at Luxembourg,

- was placed in Canadian Embassies around the world, and

- was made into one of Canada's first interactive CD ROMs by the Canadian Government, which it then installed in the British Museum, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. It was the centerpiece of the Secretary of State's "Bravo Canada" trailer display that traveled across Canada.

-We funded and produced a film presenting northern First Nations family life as a positive role model for aboriginal young people, ("Dene Family" 1981), that was shown on Sesame Street, won First Prize at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, and can be found in hundreds of schools and libraries across Canada.

The British Columbia Department of Education requested our permission to allow the film to be used as the centerpiece of an instructional video to teach BC teachers how to approach teaching social studies material in a sensitive way.

- In "The Norman Wells Pipline" we documented on film, for Interprovincial Pipe Line, of Edmonton, Alberta, the two year construction of Canada's first ever arctic pipeline, (1984-86) mostly shot in January and February, at -30 and -40 degrees Celsius, in the North West Territories. Most of this construction again was done in January and February when temperatures were brutally cold. Frostbite and cameras that froze up were routine occurrences we had to work around.

Both film projects firmly established Esso Resources Canada and Interprovincial Pipe Line as world leaders in developing environmentally sensitive construction procedures to protect the fragile sub-arctic environment. Enthused the President of IPL, after seeing the program, "You two know more about pipeline construction in arctic permafrost than most of my engineers!"

-SUBMITTING THE WINNING PROPOSAL MANY TIMES TO PRODUCE FILMS FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN COMPETITION WITH OTHER TOP CANADIAN PRODUCTION COMPANIES

EXPLORING CANADIAN COMMUNITIES SERIES

We produced a series of programs that feature young people exploring the history and geography of their cities and regions. The series is widely used in Canadian classrooms to give students (grades 5 to 9) an overview of Canada and it's story.

Four of our films, including the "Exploring Canadian Communities Series, were voted into the Top Ten of the "100 Most Highly Recommended Programs", by a committee of the leading educational film and video buyers from across Western Canada. This was at a marketing showcase where 32 major distributors (we were the smallest one there) were showing thousands of the latest international video programs during a week of previewing at Banff, AB, in 1991. Our one-hour television documentary "My Land is My Life" was voted #3. (By comparison, National Geographic placed 2 programs in the Top Ten, the NFB one, and CBC and TVO none.) Surprised organizers informed us that no producer or distributor had ever placed that many programs before into the Top Ten.

OUTDOOR SAFETY SERIES

Programs from our Outdoor Safety series of 5 films are found in daily use in every Canadian province and US state. These progams have been credited with saving countless lives all over North America. They are used by the Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of National Defence to teach their people survival skills in Canada's outdoors. Cold Water the Silent Killer became the North American standard for all audiences, on how to treat and prevent hypothermia from cold water. The Coast Guard assures us that there is not a child in the Maritime Provinces that has not seen this film. The Coast Guard commissioned us to remake/update our film in exchange for their right to use it in their safety programs. This new program, "Cold Water, Deadly Killer" has won several medals at American international film & video festivals, including a Gold Plaque at Chicago's International Film & Video Communications Festival, where competitors came from 23 countries.

We have produced and shot many other projects for broadcasters, industry, publice service organizations, industry, and education. As well, we have worked as cinematographer, sound, production, and editing crews on CBC projects, and productions for other companies.

We have been motion picture, television, and video distributors for twenty three years. For information on productions currently distributed by Goldi Productions Ltd., see Videos For Sale.