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Primitive Entertainment Primitive Entertainment is an Emmy nominated, Webby award-winning producer of documentary feature fi

Primitive Entertainments films have screened at leading festivals worldwide, including Berlin, SXSW, Traverse City, TIFF, Hot Docs, VIFF, CPH:DOX, Bergen, Munich, Sydney, Tokyo, Barcelona, IDFA, DOXA and the Museum of Modern Art, amongst others. Recent awards include the Homeland Earth Award at The Silbersalz Science and Media Festival; the German Biodiversity Award at NaturVision; the Grimme Onli

ne Award for Culture and Entertainment; a Webby Award for Best Individual Documentary; the SXSW Interactive Award for Activism; the Outstanding Film Award at the Berlin Sci-Fi Film Festival; the Grand Prix at the International Science Film Festival, St Petersburg; two Genie awards for Best Short Documentary and Best Feature Length Documentary; multiple Gemini Awards (including Best Performing Arts Series and Best History Program); the Toyota Earth Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival; and an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Nature Programming. Recent productions include Records by Alan Zweig (premiering at VIFF 2021); Borealis (Hot Docs 2021) for TVO, ARTE / ZDF, NHK, and Knowledge Network; Writing The Land, a four part series on Canadian authors for CBC and ARTE / ZDF; Coppers (TIFF 2019); Equator 360, a twelve hour series and VR project for ZDF / ARTE, NHK and Discovery; There Is A House Here (TIFF 2017). In Search of A Perfect World for CBC and ZDF; Spaceship Earth, a five-hour series and feature documentary for NHK, History Television and NHK Enterprises (special presentation at Hot Docs 2016); How To Build A Time Machine (Hot Docs 2016); and The Polar Sea, a ten hour series and VR project for TVO, ARTE / ZDF and Netflix.

23/12/2024

Hoping for a snowy holiday? Get in the mood with two beautiful winter films by director Kevin McMahon that are playing this Sunday on TVO. At 9pm is the premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND. It’s a gorgeous and funny love story about an ornithologist, his wife, their bird colony and the polar bears hoping to eat them, all living together on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. After that enjoy the calm and beauty of BOREALIS, a deep dive into Canada’s boreal forest. Happy Holidays from Primitive Entertainment!

22/12/2024

Hoping for a snowy holiday? Get in the mood with two beautiful winter films by director Kevin McMahon that are playing this Sunday on TVO. At 9pm is the premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND. It’s a gorgeous and funny love story about an ornithologist, his wife, their bird colony and the polar bears hoping to eat them, all living together on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. After that enjoy the calm and beauty of BOREALIS, a deep dive into Canada’s boreal forest. Happy Holidays from Primitive Entertainment!

George Divoky is a birder and an elder of extraordinary energy. George, now 77, has sacrificed comfort, wealth, status a...
22/12/2024

George Divoky is a birder and an elder of extraordinary energy. George, now 77, has sacrificed comfort, wealth, status and a normal domestic life for the good of an Arctic seabird colony. In exchange, he's gained deep wisdom about the ways of the winged and the unprecedented transformation of their icy, isolated world. His story is beautifully told in THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND, streaming free now on YouTube TVO Docs

21/12/2024

Happy Holidays to our friends at TVO and thanks for programming a Primitive double bill of beautiful winter films by director Kevin McMahon this Sunday Dec. 22 on TVO. At 9pm is the premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND, a gorgeous and funny love story about an ornithologist, his wife, their bird colony and the polar bears hoping to eat them all, stuck on a remote Arctic Ocean island. After that enjoy the calm and snowy beauty of BOREALIS, a deep dive into Canada’s boreal forest.

George Divoky is the world’s most intrepid birder. For 49 years, he has spent every summer alone on a tiny Arctic sandba...
21/12/2024

George Divoky is the world’s most intrepid birder. For 49 years, he has spent every summer alone on a tiny Arctic sandbar protecting a community of beautiful seabirds. For half that time, he’s known that the creatures he adores are doomed. But he cheerfully returns every year anyway, loyal to his avian friends and curious to see how their story ends. THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND streams free December 20 on YouTube TVO Docs

THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND spends a summer with the world’s most intrepid birder, George Divoky, and his wife Catherin...
20/12/2024

THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND spends a summer with the world’s most intrepid birder, George Divoky, and his wife Catherine Smith, and a colony of garrulous seabirds and some hungry polar bears, all stuck together on an isolated Arctic Island. A wary love story. Streaming free December 20 on YouTube TVO Docs

Birders take note! George Divoky, aged 77, is the world’s boldest and funniest birder. In the beautiful feature document...
20/12/2024

Birders take note! George Divoky, aged 77, is the world’s boldest and funniest birder. In the beautiful feature documentary THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND, George returns to the remote Arctic Island where he has spent 50 summers alone protecting a beautiful sea bird from extinction. Will this be the year when the polar bears finally win? Will this be his last summer on top of the world? Streaming free December 20 on YouTube TVO Docs

Join us tonight for the World Premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND. Subjects George Divoky and Catherine Smith will ...
16/10/2024

Join us tonight for the World Premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND. Subjects George Divoky and Catherine Smith will be in attendance @ Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival.
October 16th, 7:00 pm, Paradise Theatre (1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto)

Meet the man who discovered climate change in the Arctic. George Divoky will be in Toronto for the World Premiere of THE...
14/10/2024

Meet the man who discovered climate change in the Arctic. George Divoky will be in Toronto for the World Premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND @ Planet in Focus
October 16th, 7:00 pm, Paradise Theatre

Join us for the World Premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND, director Kevin McMahon’s 12th feature documentary @ Plan...
09/10/2024

Join us for the World Premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND, director Kevin McMahon’s 12th feature documentary @ Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival.
Next Wednesday, October 16th, 7:00 pm, Paradise Theatre (1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto)

Come meet the world’s toughest and loneliest birder! George Divoky will be in Toronto for the World Premiere of THE BIRD...
07/10/2024

Come meet the world’s toughest and loneliest birder! George Divoky will be in Toronto for the World Premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND @ Planet in Focus
October 16th, 7:00 pm, Paradise Theatre

04/10/2024

Join us for the World Premiere of THE BIRDMAN OF COOPER ISLAND, director Kevin McMahon’s 12th feature documentary @ Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival.
October 16th, 7:00 pm, Paradise Theatre (1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto)

25/03/2024

NAKED reveals the complex, fragile, sweet, funny, wise and, above all, individual human beings behind the polarizing public debate about gender. Various in their orientation, they’re identical in their determination to live and love as their nature demands. NAKED, produced by Michael and Kevin McMahon of Primitive Entertainment and Kay Siering of Spiegel TV, and directed by Steph Weimar, is nominated for the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards’ Donald Brittain Award. Brittain was a filmmaker dedicated to honestly documenting his era. We also believe that’s the job of documentary, so we are honored to be nominated for an award in his name.

We are thrilled to announce that our feature documentary NAKED: S*X & GENDER has been nominated for the Donald Brittain ...
11/03/2024

We are thrilled to announce that our feature documentary NAKED: S*X & GENDER has been nominated for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards.

Thank you to the participants who bravely shared their stories, our wonderful team who made it happen, broadcasters Crave and ARTE/ZDF, distributor ZDF Studios, and our co-producers Spiegel TV!

Congratulations to Catherine Leroux, author of The Future, on being one of the last two finalists in CBC’s Canada Reads ...
06/03/2024

Congratulations to Catherine Leroux, author of The Future, on being one of the last two finalists in CBC’s Canada Reads for 2024! Catherine’s process in writing the novel is featured in the Primitive Entertainment production Writing The Land, directed by Stephanie Weimar and available on CBC Gem. Catherine is featured in the Trees episode, where we see how she was wrestling with her deep concern for our environment as she was writing The Future. The English translation of The Future is being championed on Canada Reads by Heather O’Neill, herself a Canada Reads winner for the brilliant Lullabies for Little Criminals. Congratulations Catherine!

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