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| Since its inception in 1994 after producing the feature film ZERO PATIENCE, Triptych Media has developed a reputation for producing high quality, award winning drama. In 1996 LILIES won 4 Genies (Canada’s highest national film award) including Best Film of the Year. In 1997 THE HANGING GARDEN won Best Canadian Film and Most Popular Film at the Toronto International Film Festival as well as 4 Genies, including Best First Feature and Best Screenplay. THE HANGING GARDEN was released in Canada by Cineplex Odeon Films and Seville, in the U.S. by MGM and in the U.K. by Alliance U.K., playing to packed houses and stellar reviews. THE TALE OF TEEKA, winner of the Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival, also received the 1998 Banff Television Festival Rockie for Best Children’s Program and the Telefilm Canada Prize for Best English Language Production. The French language version, L’HISTOIRE DE I’OIE, won 3 Prix Gémeaux including Best Director and Best Dramatic Program. The company has made two prime time television movies for CTV, THE BOOKFAIR MURDERS, a Canada-Germany co-production and LUCKY GIRL winner of 2 Geminis for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Triptych has just completed the feature THE BAY OF LOVE AND SORROWS. |
| The company has also acted as the executive producer for the performing arts programs: OEDIPUS UNMASKED, a one hour documentary of the 1997 Stratford Festival’s re-mounting of Tyrone Guthrie’s acclaimed 1954 production of OEDIPUS REX and DANCES FOR A SMALL SCREEN, a half-hour television dance film teaming 3 contemporary choreographers with 3 film directors. |
| Triptych Media is pleased to be associated with some of Canada’s finest talents including: directors, Tim Southam, Deepa Mehta, John Fawcett, Scott Smith and Michael Kennedy, and such writers as Governor General’s award winners Michel Marc Bouchard and David Adams Richards; Pulitzer-Prize winner Carol Shields; Barbara Gowdy, Susan Swan, Lee MacDougall, Esta Spalding and Jefferson Lewis. |
| Triptych Media develops projects based on both original and adapted screenplays. It also seeks international and inter-provincial co-producing and co-financing ventures. The owner/producers of Triptych Media are Robin Cass, Louise Garfield and Anna Stratton, who bring to the company extensive and broad-based backgrounds in television, film and theatre production. Triptych Media is also a minority partner in the specialty TV channel, THE INDEPENDENT FILM CHANNEL-CANADA with Alliance Atlantis Communications. |
