Guardians of the North (6 x 30) is a documentary series that follows a team of dedicated First Nation responders who provide search and rescue, fire-fighting, and emergency response services in one of the wildest, most remote regions of the world: the boreal forest of Northern Saskatchewan. The team sees themselves as Guardians, not just of human life, personal property, and natural resources, but also of traditional communities, hunting grounds, and a First Nation way of life.
Led by Michelle Vandevord, a leader at Saskatchewan First Nation Emergency Management, and her husband Troy Bear, the Fire Chief at Muskoday First Nation, the team also includes dedicated Fire Protective Officers Pierce Pellerin and Shane Bair, as well as Firefighters Kirsten Hackett, Craig Daniels, and Logan Bair.
Always ready to head into action, the team works in a vast northern wilderness dotted with First Nation communities. Every season, several of these communities face life-and-death emergencies posed by forest fires, extreme weather, flooding, and lost or stranded community members. For Michelle, their philosophy is simple. Having First Nation responders is vital. The best emergency response teams include those that know the lay of land and understand its sacred value. Along with helping in emergencies, their goal is to train and mentor the next generation of Guardians. They know how to get around on their land. Their ancestors knew the forest and their traditions. And helped to protect them. The next generation should too.
Every day brings a new challenge. The team may be in the middle of a search and rescue, or responding with fire-trucks to a local emergency in Muskoday, when lightning strikes far to the north and a massive forest fire breaks out. Keeping in close contact with the firefighting crews they’ve trained, they help evacuate fearful communities surrounded by flames. When the blaze finally subsides, and residents return, they stay behind to train the local First Nation Fire Departments so they can better respond themselves the next time disaster strikes. And every season, in such a vast and unforgiving wilderness, there is the inevitable loss of life. If a boat sinks, or a snowmobiler falls through thin ice, it is Michelle and her team of Guardians who are called in to assist. They help recover the body for the community. They help bring closure. A solemn, challenging, and often dangerous part of their job. But a job they honour and respect. A job that needs to be done. Their primary goal is supporting First Nation communities in any way they can.
Guardians of the North is an action-filled, emotional, and educational series that takes viewers deep into a beautiful wilderness that can turn dangerous in a flash. For Michelle, Troy, and the rest of the team, their work goes beyond search and rescue, firefighting, and emergency response. It involves mentoring a wider network of First Nation Guardians. It involves using their skills, knowledge and bravery to protect ancestral communities and traditional ways of life.
Born in the Canadian prairies and raised in the Highlands of Scotland, Dr. Samantha Henley M.D. packs her bags into a mobile home and brings medical help to the Canadian wild.
Many people live and work in places that are hours or days from medical help. Ironically their work and lifestyles need medical professionals the most.
The dangers of child birth, sporting events, farming, boating and Industrial accidents in isolation, increase exponentially when a hospital can be so far away.
Dr. Sam Hanley has taken on the challenge of bringing medical care to the furthest locations. She often find injuries and illness as unique as the places they visit.
Dr. Hanley is the physician on hand at the most violent sport on the prairies, Bull riding - where man and beast go head to head and often the beast wins sending broken and cut riders into the hands of Dr. Hanley. Her toughness comes from her past life in Scotland - playing football and growing up tough as nails - she has also recognized the need for help in the Saskatchewan minor football leagues. She currently travels with 200 aspiring football players on 4 different teams and will be expanding to 8 teams this year.
In between stops she fishes, hunts, rock climbs, pitches softball and, kicks back in the great wide open as she gets to the know the people and communities she visits.
20 X 1 HR
We see their lives portrayed in movies, and sometimes we’ll get a glimpse of them when a father, brother or son is sent to jail. But rarely, if ever, do you hear them speak or get a look into their lives. That’s until now...for the first time ever; get ready to meet those who had a murderer in the family.
I Lived With A Killer is a new docu-series with unprecedented access into the inside stories of what it was like to live with and then find out you had a murderer in the family. In each episode of I Lived With A Killer we profile the crimes of infamous and notorious murders, and the family members who were unaware they were actually living with a murderer. We see the media frenzy around the unsolved crime and take viewers through the twists and turns of the investigations. At the center of each episode, as the murder investigation unravels, we experience the shock of the family member.
Our subjects are the wives, sons, and daughters of someone who has committed the most notorious of horrors – murder. Each episode interweaves the unfettered inside view of an insular and emotional family with the back-story of infamous homicides. We delve into the moment of truth when the family is then broken in the most shocking of ways.
12 X 1/2 HR
People helping people.
In the past two years, Canada has welcomed over 45,000 refugees. While many have arrived through government agencies, thousands have been welcomed through private sponsorship- a program that is uniquely Canadian and and one that has quickly become an inspiration around the world. In Canada’s private sponsorship model, groups of Canadians band together to truly make a difference. They help overseas refugees make their way to Canada and help them adjust to a new life in a new land. Private sponsorship is about people helping people across cultures and around the globe.
Bridging Borders is an observational documentary TV series by Wavelength Entertainment that showcases the inspirational stories that arise from this uniquely Canadian initiative. The series begins by following the dedicated staff of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Saskatoon, a faith-based organization that helps facilitate private sponsorships. The MCC provides guidance and connects willing sponsors with overseas refugees. In each episode, we meet a different group of Canadians who have come together and approached the MCC, hoping to make a difference. We follow their own journey, one that involves organizing, fundraising, and finding a suitable home for the sponsored family to live in. We follow their initial meeting at the airport when the refugees finally land in Canada, an anxious and emotional day for everyone involved. We learn of the newcomers' own history and journey. In the days and weeks that follow, their sponsors try to meet their needs and show them the basics of life in Canada. It can be a challenging and rewarding time. Private sponsors are responsible for helping the former refugees adjust and gain independence by the end of their first year in Canada. Most often, it becomes a deep cross-cultural relationship that lasts much longer than that.
Each episode of Bridging Borders highlights a different group of sponsors and refugees brought together with the help of the MCC. The series itself aims to make a difference by going beyond the news headlines of the refugee crisis to inspire, educate, and entertain, while at the same time showcasing and spreading the word about Canada's life-changing refugee sponsorship program that has become a role model around the globe.
Experience a rural Saskatchewan sponsor group welcome a refugee family from Iraq in VR 360.
Visit the City Saskatchewan site to watch here.
Production made possible by the Business Capacity grant and the Research grant through Creative Saskatchewan .
1 X 90MIN
Meet the children of a super race.
Genius Factory is a feature documentary that is sure to shock and anger.
It is a powerful, never before told story of a mad billionaire with god-like delusions, who tried to create a super-race with the hopes of saving humanity. He felt that unintelligent people were breeding too often and smart people weren't breeding enough, so he decided to do something about it. Today, 30 years later, the children of his Nazi-like eugenics experiment walk the streets of America as adults. These super babies seem normal enough; they have careers and they are starting their own families.
For those who know their secret, there is a hidden struggle to understand who they are and why they came to be. They struggle to understand if the Genius Factory rewarded them, or condemned them. What happened at the Genius Factory is known as the greatest genetic experiment in human history and we've yet to find out the results. The founder is dead, the sperm bank is closed, and the records were burned. But now, for the first time, people who worked at the bank are ready to talk, the genius children are going to meet each other and find out who their fathers are. Never has there been an opportunity to see if playing God actually worked, and never before has nature vs nurture ever been tested like this.
20 X 1/2 HR
The stakes couldn’t be higher in this observational documentary series about two young entrepreneurs who literally sold the farm and traded their lives as ranchers to become new owners of a fly-in fishing camp in Northern Saskatchewan. Just married new parents and out of their element, Jennifer and Darren have more than their pride on the line… they’re risking everything they have taking over Nordic Lodge and trying to make it succeed.
6 X 1 HR DOCU-SERIES
"Boomtowners" plunges into a modern-day "gold rush" that's attracting thousands of people from all over the country to the Bakken, a region of North Dakota. An oil boom has turned the area into the epicenter of a white-hot industrial revolution, but a rise in jobs has also led to a surge in population and living costs. Experience this phenomenon first-hand through the eyes of newcomers and longtime residents trying to make a living there in this groundbreaking new docu-series about tapping into the American dream.
FORMAT: HD
STATUS: Library
CONTACT: JEFF STECYK
1-(604) 506 7646
jeff@wavelength-entertainment.com
35 X 1/2 HR
Since the first patent was issued over 500 years ago, inventors from around the world have been trying to build "the next big thing" and become rich in the process. But for every brilliant creation, there are thousands that never get off the drawing board. However, not all failed inventions are indeed failures. The Re-Inventors follows Matt Hunter and Jeremy MacPherson as they dig up original patent designs from historys lost inventions and, for the first known time build them, test them, and try to make them work. Some designs will crash and burn, but a few others might actually prove brilliant when given a chance. Armed with blow torches and history books, they take us through the strange and entertaining world of invention, proving human beings will try to build just about anything.
FORMAT: HD
STATUS: Library
CONTACT: JEFF STECYK
1-(604) 506 7646
jeff@wavelength-entertainment.com
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 25.
"I Wanna Go Back There"
by Jeffery Straker from the album - "North Star Falling"
(Acronym/Universal Canada)
by Jeffery Straker from the album - "Dirt Road Confessional"
(Acronym/Universal Canada) May 2017
Buy the song/album on ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/dir...
ORDER a CD BY MAIL at Jeffery's BANDCAMP STORE: https://jefferymichaelstraker.bandcam...
Video Production Wavelength Entertainment, Regina
Saskatchewan Producer: Chris Triffo
Directors: Steve Allen / Chris Triffo
Editor: Trevor Aikman Song
produced by: Brad Prosko & Murray Pulver
Songwriter: Jeffery Straker
by Jeffery Straker from the album - "Dirt Road Confessional"
(Acronym/Universal Canada) May 2017
Buy the song/album on ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/dir...
ORDER a CD BY MAIL at Jeffery's BANDCAMP STORE: https://jefferymichaelstraker.bandcam...
Video Production Wavelength Entertainment, Regina
Saskatchewan Producer: Chris Triffo
Directors: Steve Allen / Chris Triffo
Editor: Trevor Aikman Song
produced by: Brad Prosko & Murray Pulver
Songwriter: Jeffery Straker