Peter Raymont

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Peter Raymont

(1950-02-28) February 28, 1950 (age 73)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s) film director, screenwriter, producer, film editor & cinematographer
Years active1971-present
Spouse Lindalee Tracey (May 14, 1957 - October 19, 2006) her death
Website http://www.whitepinepictures.com/

Peter Raymont (born February 28, 1950) is a Canadian filmmaker and producer and the president of White Pine Pictures, an independent film, television and new media production company based in Toronto. Among his films are Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire (2005), A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman (2007), The World Stopped Watching (2003) and The World Is Watching (1988). The 2011 feature documentary West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson and 2009's Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould were co-directed with Michèle Hozer.

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Education

Raymont attended Crighton Street School, Rockcliffe Park Public School and Lisgar Collegiate Institute. He graduated from Trinity College School in Port Hope in 1968.

At Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario he was honoured with the Tricolour Award for contribution to the university community. Raymont graduated from Queen's University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Political Science and Film Studies. [1] Raymont is a graduate of The Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies in North York, Ontario (First Year, 1988), now the Canadian Film Centre. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus, now The Documentary Organization of Canada and is a member of The Directors' Guild of Canada and The Canadian Media Producers' Association.

Early career

Raymont's career began at age 21 at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal. From 1971 to 78, he worked as an editor, director and producer. While at the NFB, Raymont also taught film and video production in the Canadian Arctic. In 1978, Raymont moved to Toronto and established his independent film and television production company, Investigative Productions now operating as White Pine Pictures. He co-partnered the company for many years with his late wife, award-winning filmmaker and author Lindalee Tracey.

Career

Raymont was executive producer of the television drama series The Border , which he co-created with Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole, and Cracked , a Toronto-based police procedural which explores the intersection of the law and mental illness. [2] Cracked's 2 seasons are also broadcast in France, Germany, USA and elsewhere.

Raymont's documentary feature Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire was honoured with the 2005 Audience Award for World Cinema Documentaries at The Sundance Film Festival and the 2007 Emmy Award for Best Documentary. [3] A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman]' was longlisted for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Genius Within premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, followed by invitational presentations at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) and several other festivals worldwide (Full Frame, Vancouver, Seattle, Sydney, Melbourne, Hawaii, Bermuda). The film opened theatrically across Canada, USA and Australia in 2010, playing in over 50 US cities. A two-hour version of the film was broadcast on the PBS series American Masters in December, 2010. Genius Within won the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Biography Documentary presented by the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television, and was short-listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [4]

In 2015 Raymont received an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from Trent University [5]

Filmography

YearTitleContribution
1970BlueDirector/Producer
1971Have You Ever Been North of Princess Street?Director/Producer
1972Just Another Job
The Point: Community Legal Clinic
Editor
1973The Innocent DoorAssociate Producer/Editor
1974The Coldspring ProjectProducer/Editor
1975Sikusilarmiut
Lumsden
The Forest Watchers
Natsik Hunting
Director/Producer
Director
Director
Producer
1977The Hunters
River: Planet Earth
Whale Hunting
Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention
Producer
Director
Producer
Director
1978Reflections of a Leadership Convention
The Art of the Possible
Director
1979History on the Run: The Media and the ’79 ElectionDirector/Producer
1981Magic in the SkyDirector/Producer
1982Arctic Spirits
Falasha: Agony of the Black Jews
Director/Producer
Director
1983On to the Polar Sea: A Yukon Adventure
Prisoners of Debt: Inside The Global Banking Crisis
Director/Writer
1985With Our Own Two HandsDirector/Producer
1986At The Brink: The Cuban Missile CrisisDirector
1987The Brokers
The Politics of Aid
Director/Producer
Director
1988 The World Is Watching Director/Writer
1989Only The News That FitsDirector/Producer
1990As Long As the Rivers Flow (5 x 1hr Episodes)
Between Two Worlds
Producer
1992Voices From the ShadowsDirector/Producer
1993Chasing the DreamDirector/Producer
1994 Hearts of Hate: The Battle for Young MindsDirector/Producer
1995 Abby, I Hardly Knew Ya
The Skeptic’s Journey
Producer
Director
1997Invisible Nation: Policing the Underground
The New Ice Age: A Year in the Life of the NHL (6 Episodes
Passing the Flame: The Legacy of Women’s College Hospital
Producer
Director/Producer
Producer
1998 A Scattering of Seeds (52 x ½ hr Episodes)Producer
1999Rwanda: In Search of HopeDirector/Producer
2000Toronto: City of Dreams (3 x 1hr Episodes)Producer
2001Graveyard Shift (6 x ½ hr Episodes)Director/Producer
2002The Undefended Border (3 x 1 hr Episodes)
King of Hearts
Director/Producer
Director
2003Into the Light
The World Stopped Watching
Arctic Dreamer: The Lonely Quest of Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Hero’s Hero: The Forgotten Life of William Barker
The Anatomy of Burlesque (2 x 1 hr Episodes)
Director/Producer
Director/Producer
Director/Producer
Executive Producer/Creative Advisor
Producer
2004 Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
Bhopal: The Search for Justice
The Killer Cure
Director/Producer
Director/Producer
Producer
2005The Idealist: James Beveridge, Film GuruProducer
2007 A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope
The Border (38 x 1hr Episodes)
Director/Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
2008Worlds Collide: The Saga of Herschel Island
I Nuligak: An Inuvialuit History of First Contact
Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta
Radical Dreamer: The Passionate Journey of Graham Spry
Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma
Producer
Producer
Producer
Director/Producer
Producer
2009Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
City Sonic (20 Webisodes)
Director/Producer
Producer
2010Pets on Prozac
Experimental Eskimos
Winds of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers and The Spirit of The Forest
The Team
Prosecutor
Producer
2011West Wind: The Vision of Tom ThomsonDirector/Producer
2012 Cracked
Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children
Executive Producer
Producer
2014 Guantanamo's Child
Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven
Producer
2015Premier: The Unscripted Kathleen Wynne
Where the Universe Sings: The Spiritual Journey of Lawren Harris
Producer
Director/Producer
2016 All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone
Girls' Night Out
Arctic Secrets (8 x 1 hr Episodes)
Producer
Producer
Producer, Executive Producer
2017We Are Canada (6 x 1 hr Episodes)
PTSD: Beyond Trauma
The Truth Is In The Stars
Executive Producer
2018 In the Making (16 x ½ hr Episodes)
The Corporate Coup D'État
Executive Producer
2019 Toxic Beauty
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word after a Word is Power
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Director/Producer
2020CitizenKid: Earth Comes FirstExecutive Producer
2021Wild Pacific Rescue (3 x 1 hr Episodes)
The Price of Cheap
Sleeping Warrior
Executive Producer
2022 Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children
Ice-Breaker: The 1972 Summit Series
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Executive Producer
Producer/Executive Producer
Executive Producer

Awards

Gemini Awards:

Canadian Film and Television Awards

Sundance Film Festival

Philadelphia Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

American Film Festival, New York City

Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, Switzerland

Leipzig International Film Festival

Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA), Biarritz, France

Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists, ACTRA Awards

Yorkton International Film Festival, Canada

Alberta Film and Television (AMPIA)

International Arctic Film Festival (Rovaniemi, Finland)

23rd International Festival of Short Films (Cracow, Poland)

National Film and Video Association, Oakland, California

Worldfest Houston

Academy Awards, Los Angeles, USA

Berlin Film Festival

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