Kensington Communications

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Kensington Communications Inc
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LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded1980 in Kensington Market, by Robert Lang
Executive ProducerRobert Lang
Writer & Web DeveloperAllen Booth

Kensington Communications is a Toronto-based production company that specializes in documentary films and documentary/factual television series. Founded in 1980 by president Robert Lang, Kensington Communications Inc. has produced over 250 productions from documentary series and films to performing arts and children's specials. Since 1998, Kensington has also been involved in multi-platform interactive projects for the web and mobile devices.

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The company's recent productions include two one-hour science documentaries: Why We Dance, and Nature's Cleanup Crew, about the busy urban scavengers who clean up the mountains of waste humans leave behind, both for CBC's The Nature of Things and Arte. Fluid: Life Beyond The Binary, a one-hour documentary for CBC's The Nature of Things hosted by Mae Martin, in association with Gay Agenda (production company) that explores gender fluidity throughout the living world. [1] Kensington has won a number of awards for these and other programs (see Awards section for details). Among Kensington's recent interactive projects are: the mobile app, Risk Navigator; Scopify, a mobile app which allows visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum to get an augmented experience of some of the museum's artifacts; and Museum Secrets Interactive, with web videos, games and information.

Filmography

Television Series

One-off Documentaries:

Recognitions

Awards

2014
Canadian Screen Award, Best Factual Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) [6]
Canadian Screen Award, Best Picture Editing in an Information Program or Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) [7]
2013
Canadian Screen Award, Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series, Museum Secrets (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) [8]
Digi Awards, (Nomination) Best in Mobility, ScopifyROM [9]
2008
Canadian New Media Awards, Best News Information, Diamond Road Online [10] [11]
Gemini Award – Best Documentary Series, Diamond Road [12]
Platinum Award – Best Feature Documentary, Diamond Road (Houston Worldfest) [13]
2005 & 2007
Worldmedal – Docudrama, 72 Hours: True Crime (New York Festivals) [14] [15]
2004
Golden Sheaf Award – Best Documentary, Social/Political Almost Home (Yorkton Festival) [16]
2004
NFB Kathleen Shannon Award, Almost Home (Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival) [17]
2004
Platinum Award – Ecology/Environment/Conservation, Sacred Balance Show 3 Fire of Creation (Houston Worldfest) [18]
1998
Gemini Award – Science, Technology, Nature, Separate Lives (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) [19]
1997
HotDocs – Vision TV Humanitarian Award, A Place in the World [20]
1995
Award of Excellence – Best Variety, The Biggest Little Ticket (Alliance for Children and Television) [21]


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