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"KEEPING CANADIANS IN TOUCH WITH CANADA"

                              

"We've heard from New York, Houston, Flagstaff, San Francisco, Chicago ...."
"And from Ottawa ...."
" ..... warmest congratulations on the success of your Canadian television series. The episodes won the hearts of Canadians from coast-to-coast, and the numerous prestigious awards that you received were deserving of two such innovative and talented Canadians. Your dedication to ensuring that the people of Canada have access to their stories and talent is to be commended, and the Department of Canadian Heritage is proud to have participated in funding an initiative that will continue to be accessible to Canadians through schools, libraries, and public institutions.

You are a source of pride to your country and your accomplishments will serve as inspiration to your peers and all Canadians."

(from the Honourable Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage)


  "Now we'd love to hear from you ..."  
          GOLDI PRODUCTIONS LTD
Proud Producers of            
a Multi-International Award-Winning 
         Canadian Television Series          
Goldi Productions on location, among the mass graves on the battlefield of Isandlwana, South Africa, on the spot where an entire army of 1,400 British soldiers was annihilated, after being overrun by 24,000 Zulu warriors, in January 1879.

Where Some of Our Films & Videos Are:

Some locations where multiple copies of our programs can be found. 

We are grateful to the countless hundreds of audio-visual, film and television professionals across Canada and the US, who have repeatedly told us how eager they are to put our documentary film and video programs before their audiences.

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"The Film Committee at the Museum really enjoyed watching all of your films. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is dedicated to educating people about Earth-related issues like environmental change and biodiversity. We feel that your work embodies the scope of our mission and we are delighted to be able to screen your films." 
(Jay Apt, Director, Carnegie Museum of Palaeontology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

At a three day gala, during it's first ever Wild Life Film Festival, the Museum honoured us by "Selecting for Show" for its audiences, more of our programs, than those from any other Canadian or American producer, 15 of whom participated.

Users of our shows enthuse that they like our programs - and consider them unique - because they always project so much "heart," portray people with great warmth, and feature outstanding photography.

And they report their audiences respond enthusiastically to the energetic way our programs are edited, and consistently offer a high quality mix of educational information presented in a spirited and entertaining way.

(Top): Proud recipients of the Yorkton, Saskatchewan Golden Sheaf Award, from the Golden Heartland of Canada.
(Middle): Proud recipients of numerous NEMN Apple Awards, the world's biggest educational film & television festival), San Francisco, California.
(Above): Proud recipients of the Outdoor Writers of North America Four Star (Gold) and Three Star (Silver) Awards, Chicago, IL
(Below): Proud recipients of Gold Plaque, Chicago Film Festival's INTERCOM, Chicago, Illinois.

It is thanks to the enthusiastic support of thousands of film and video purchasers, that today, there are far more copies of our programs in Canadian schools, colleges, libraries, public service organizations, and government and corporate offices, than those of any other Canadian independent producer,

 thereby allowing us to pursue our primary passion:

"KEEPING CANADIANS IN TOUCH WITH CANADA"


News Flash

Jan. 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are pleased to announce that our

"Canada Boer War Centennial Project"

has been selected by the Government of Canada
to become an official 

"Canada Millennium Partnership Program"

"Sharing the Memory, Shaping the Dream"



We are honoured that the selection committee picked this project from among 3500 applicants to be among the 600 projects it chose to partner with to celebrate the Canadian Experience at the end of the 20th century, and allowing us to pursue our primary passion:

"KEEPING CANADIANS IN TOUCH WITH CANADA"

This web site, which will go hand in hand with our feature-length  
documentary television program

"The Great Anglo-Boer War: 
The Canadian Experience"

will serve as a base from which we will inform Canadians of all ages and backgrounds, in every part of Canada, about the men and women whose lives this war totally transformed exactly a century ago.

To learn more about the feature-length, television special documentary presentation we are producing 
in proud association with:

HISTORY
TELEVISION

The Canadian Television Fund

The Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN) 

ACCESS Television (Alberta)

Please Click To Our    Paardeberg  PAGE

The remote cemetery on the battlefield at Paardeberg, where 31 Canadian volunteers from the Royal Canadian Regiment fell in February, 1900, and now rest beneath massive markers. 

Proud Producers of "Outdoor Adventure Canada"
for Alliance-Atlantis

This series of non-tabloid, hard-core Canadian documentaries, won universal acclaim, for its great action photography - featuring Canadians exploring their heritage - and for the captivating skill with which it was interlaced with many high energy interview clips of enthusiasts caught in the throes of their passions for Canada and its heritage. 

During 1996-98 Goldi Productions produced "Outdoor Adventure Canada" for Atlantis Broadcasting, a cable television series of 26 entirely Canadian documentary programs celebrating the people and historical heritage of Canada.
(See: Programs)

The series:
- won enviable cable channel television ratings, (many over 150,000 and seven over 200,000). In its second showing - its first repeat cycle - "A Whale of a Tail" won 237,000 viewers - an enormous ratings coup for a cable channel - and was Atlantis Broadcasting's highest rated show.

- received outstanding viewer mail,

- introduced a new style of documentary editing, which has since been widely imitated, &

- won an astonishing and unprecedented number of international Gold, Silver, & Bronze medals (60 in all during an 18 month period), at American Television Festivals in New York, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Flagstaff, and Columbus, in competition with the best programs from leading producers and television broadcasters from around the world.
"How wonderful to finally see on my T.V. screen something so worth while watching. I myself am not a big T.V. fan but your shows had me seated and kept me seated. Such a refreshing change to be able to watch shows not only interesting but educational and with ordinary everyday folk instead of some 'Hollywood type' show full of actors and fake scenery."
Carolann Williams, Hope, BC

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 Final Awards for OAC are GOLD & SILVER

The final awards for "Outdoor Adventure Canada" have come in, bringing our total awards for 1997-99 to 89 including 29 GOLD & SILVER PLAQUES.
(also 31 BRONZE)

NEWS
FLASH
1999

GOLD PLAQUE AWARD for "Ho for the Klondike"
SILVER PLAQUE AWARD for "Sailing into the Past"

at the Chicago International Television Festival's
INTERCOM (The International Communications Video Festival)

We're pleased that for the second year in a row  Joan Goldi is honoured as the top festival award winner at this international festival, 
winning 3 major awards for all three programs she submitted.


A Phenomenal Achievement !!!

Certainly We're Proud of Joan Goldi,
International Award-Winning Producer for Goldi Productions
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During 1997-1999 Joan Goldi won
an unheard-of 88 international film & television awards, 
(including 29 Gold & Silver Plaques** in just over a year)
for her
"hard core" Canadian documentary
cable television programs,
 and was the 
Top Festival Award Winner 
(the most awards won by a producer) 
at 8 major American international film & TV festivals
and the 
Top Canadian Award Winner  
at 6 others,
in competition with the best mega-budget programs
from leading producers and broadcasters around the world. 

**Not to mention 31 Bronze Awards.

"Kurtis - Good at Crime, Burns is History, Suzuki, a Naturist ..., Joan Goldi is ..."

We're especially pleased that hundreds of expert American jurors - picked by festivals to reflect expertise across the entire field of television communication - recognized that Joan Goldi had an unusual ability, to depart from the normal convention of specializing in only one type of documentary, and to create outstanding programs in subject areas requiring competence in a wide range of disciplines.
Bringing the Past Alive with Yukon Quest: To show the world that history shows don't have to be dull, uninspired, and boring, but can be shot on location with verve and zest, Joan Goldi created "Ho for the Klondike" in 1997, and showcased a new approach in the making of history programs.

She documented an enthusiastic group of men and women re-enacting the "Trail of 98", the historic route taken by the gold-seekers in 1898, 1,000 miles from Skagway Alaska, across the Chilkoot Trail, and down the Yukon River to the gold strike at Dawson, Yukon.

"Ho for the Klondike" won 6 international medals: 3 Gold, 1 Silver & 2 Bronze.

Festival jurors across the United States applauded her ability by repeatedly selecting her programs for their top honours in competition categories as widely diverse as:

documentary - nature & wildlife - ethnic & cultural - oceanography
science, research & technology - geography & transportation
television sports - travel documentary - underwater & marine sciences
leisure & recreation - safety - conservation & energy
Suzuki had One, CBC Witness had One, discovery had One: At the world's largest science documentary festival, hosted by the French Service of the CBC, in Montreal, PQ, Joan Goldi was the only English-language producer (out of 27 from around the world) to have TWO programs "Selected for Show."
Safety First: Safety films that Joan Goldi created, have been credited with saving countless lives all over North America. Thousands of copies are in daily use by schools, industry, the RCMP, and the Canadian Armed Forces. The Canadian Coast Guard reports that there is not a school child in Canada's Maritime Provinces who has not seen her internationally acclaimed film "Cold Water: the Silent Killer."

Joan Goldi's expertise at crafting superior informational programs has been repeatedly sought out by Parks Canada, Justice Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard, the Department of National Defence, and Mines, Energy, & Resources.

Educational Producer: Joan Goldi is the only Canadian producer to have won "double Apples" three years in a row at the world's most prestigious educational film & television festival in Oakland, CA.
Rare Honour: In 1998 Joan Goldi was awarded the second highest number of points of excellence by a committee judging submissions from the top 65 Ontario film and television production companies applying to be among 6 finalists selected to make programs for Canadian Government departments.


And flouting the usual custom in the industry, of sending a sure award-winner to all the festivals, she sent in many of her shows to competitions, in the end 
winning major awards for 17 different programs and for 66% of the shows in her cable television series.
Double Whammy !!!


At the Outdoor Writers of America Association
Film & Video Festival, (State College, PA) where Canadian participants included the NFB, Great Canadian Parks, KEG Productions, and
the CBC (which sent 7 shows),

Joan Goldi won both  

the Gold (Four Star) and 

the Silver (Three Star) Medals.


It's the first time, astonished organizers reported,
that the same producer
has won both top prizes
in the 40 years the festival has run ......

And she did it again.... and again.....
At three different American international television festivals,
three of her Silver Medals lost out to three of her Golds, competing against one another
- and an international line-up of documentaries - in the same category. 

And she did it all with 100% hard-core Canadian, non-tabloid type programs.

It is a phenomenal achievement for
a Canadian documentary producer
which will probably never be equalled.

And far from only being the usual "administrative" producer - who sends out crews to do the location work - she was one-half of the "hands-on," two-person shooting crew that travelled the length and breadth of Canada, and shot the entire 26 award-winning episodes.

"You are a source of pride to your country and your accomplishments will serve as inspiration to your peers and all Canadians."

-letter from the Rt. Hon. Sheila Copps,
Canadian Minister of Heritage 
Joan Goldi hard at work, to make sure the cameraman is doing his job:

"KEEPING CANADIANS IN TOUCH WITH CANADA"


NEWS
FLASH
1999

 

Goldi Productions wins  4 Medals at
Houston Worldfest International Television Festival*

Gold Star Plaque for "The Field Behind the Plow"
Gold Star Plaque for "A Whale of a Tail"
Silver Star Plaque for "Sailing into the Past"
Bronze Plaque for "The Magic of Winter"
Fourth Place/Finalist for "Ho for the Klondike!"
& "The Saskatchewan Will Never Die"

J. Hunter Todd, President, Worldfest: "You people sure do fine work, very fine work. In a tough field of 53 entries two of your shows won medals. Congratulations!"

*With a repeat of last year's 4 Medals, we are again, the top Canadian documentary medal winner at Houston (out of 51 Canadian producers & broadcasters who participated).

Joan Goldi was honoured with more awards than any other producer at the festival
(out of 1100 entrants who submitted 4000 programs.)

NEWS
FLASH
1999

"TWO NEMN SILVER APPLES"
in Oakland, California
for
"Wilderness Playground" & "Ho for the Klondike"
With "double" Apples in three successive years, Joan Goldi is, for the third time, the top Canadian documentary award winner, at the world's largest and most prestigious educational film & television festival
(the National Educational Media Network Apple Awards).

NEWS
FLASH
1999

Missoula, Montana, International Wild Life Festival
Honours Goldi Productions with "Special Award of Merit"
for Publicizing Watchable Wild Life
for "Spring Fever"

"An awesome educational film ..... I wish more films were as educational as this one." Festival Juror, Missoula, MT

 

 

Now it's 25 Gold & Silver Medals for
"Outdoor Adventure Canada"

Enthused an Atlantis Executive: "Congratulations! That's far more Gold & Silver than from all our 100 plus other series combined!"

Our Photographer, Cinematographer John Goldi csc

Cover Photo (left): by John Goldi csc**. A red-throated loon on an arctic tundra pond (King William Island, NWT, Canada) in June, at 11 pm, shot from 10 feet away by approaching in chest waders, after working with the bird from a blind for three days. 
At work where the Klondike enters the Yukon at Dawson, YT
Cape St. Mary's lighthouse, NF.

John Goldi csc, has successfully combined highly developed skills rarely found in the same photographer: high quality nature photography (ex. right, the nerd bird), and outstanding people photography.

He has been the director and cameraman of all our programs over the last 23 years, the sound and picture editor of most of them, and the supervising editor on the rest. He has won 117 career awards and honours for his work in film and television production.

He has been a juror judging excellence in cinematography for the Canadian Society of Cinematography's annual "CSC Awards," and for the "Genie Awards" which reward excellence in Canada's feature film industry.

**The CSC News is the professional journal of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, the professional organization of the film and television cameramen of Canada.
(The 'csc' designation is the top honour bestowed by the Canadian Society of Cinematography, "for outstanding achievement as a cinematographer".)
The Nerd bird, the only 12-string kite in the world.
Semi-palmated Plover on eggs. (King William Island, NWT).
Caught watching unbelievable kites at Montreal's Kite Festival.
In the company of Mr. & Mrs. Sabine Gull.
(Victoria Island, NWT).
RARE: Probably the only picture in the world of a Northern Flicker, with its eggs on the ground. Like all woodpeckers, it usually nests in holes in trees.
(Great Slave Lake, NWT).

JOHN GOLDI csc, Awarded SILVER PLAQUE
at the Chicago International Television Festival
for
"Special Achievement in Cinematography"
Fellow Cinematography Medal Winners in this prestigious category were "The Dragons of Galapagos" by ABC Television's Natural History Unit (of "America's Edens" fame) and "A Footprint on Everest". 

John Goldi shot his images at Kortright, Ontario, and Verdun, Quebec. He won Silver for his work in "Go Fly A Kite", showcasing people of all ages as they explore the world of kiting in Canada.

(A few months earlier he had been awarded a "Special Jury Award of Merit for Videography", at the North American Outdoor Writers of America Film & Television Festival, in State College, PA. where programs he had directed, shot, and edited, also won both the Gold and the Silver Awards.)

NEWS
FLASH
1999

"JOAN GOLDI Top Canadian Series Producer Nominee
Second Year in a Row, at New York Festivals

With a Bronze Worldmedal and 3 Finalists, Joan Goldi is the top Canadian award winning producer at New York Festivals.

 

The
Latest
News

1999

Bronze Worldmedal at the 
New York Television Programming Awards

Sure we're pleased we've just won a "Bronze World Medal" at the prestigious New York Film & Television Festival, for "In Search of the Colossal Fossil", in the heavily contested Science and Technology category, which included other competitors from  A&E, BBC, The History Channel, PBS, The discovery Channel, NFB, & from German, French, American, and Australian Television.

We had earlier won THREE FINALIST NOMINATIONS at the NY Festival. One of them was  for "What an Ice Canoe!", one of two shows we did on the Québec Winter Carnival. (It was a Finalist in the same category as the mega budget "Hitman Hart")

Radio-Québec (Québec's counterpart to TVO) recently called about the other show we did,  "The Magic of Winter", to say:
"We have, of course, seen many, many programs done on Québec's Winter Carnival, but yours is by far the best we have ever seen.  It was wonderful, and easy to see that the people who made it have great affection for Québec and its people. Merci!"

***** We are pleased that "The Magic of Winter" has also just won a Bronze Plaque at Houston.

Our Sincerest Thanks to: 
           The Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN)

AND THE TAXPAYERS OF SASKATCHEWAN whose money it spent.

Saskatchewan's Educational Television Network, for the second year in a row, again chose "Outdoor Adventure Canada" (its second season), out of hundreds of series it could have selected for broadcast to the people of Saskatchewan.

We are honoured, that though we pay no taxes in Saskatchewan (we pay them in Ontario), though only one of our shows out of  26 celebrates the heritage of Saskatchewan (most of our shows celebrate Ontario's heritage), that still the selection committee at SCN felt so strongly, that our show projects the image of Canada and Canadians that it wants to place before the people of Saskatchewan. We are truly moved. Thank you.

From David Snow, Wildland Tours, Newfoundland (Like in understand):

"Let me say again what a pleasure it was to work with you on this project. Your professionalism, integrity, and commitment was a delight to see.  The video has proven a useful marketing tool and we look forward to collaborating with you on other projects you may be planning for Newfoundland and Labrador in the future. And I can tell you that the Department of Tourism reports dozens of enquiries based on your program." (Feb. 9/99)

Note: The Minister of Tourism for Newfoundland & Labrador, the Hon. Sandra C. Kelly sent us a personal letter of praise and thanks for "Whale of a Tail" which has won a Gold & three Silver Medals at leading American Film & TV Festivals.

From Bill Brodeur at discovery Harbour in Penetanguishene, Ontario:

"Everyone here once again wishes to congratulate Goldi Productions on the excellent quality of this award-winning show.  We have received many referrals as a result of people seeing it, and the discovery team really enjoyed working with you." (Feb. 3, 1999)

"Sailing into the Past" won a Gold Medal (Flagstaff, AZ) and a Silver (Worldfest Houston TX)

We thank our major sponsors and clients for enthusiastically supporting our Canadian television productions: (Goldi Productions Ltd)



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