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Flahive Gerry
In a career spanning 30 years with the internationally-acclaimed National Film Board of Canada, Gerry Flahive has produced more than 50 films and new-media projects on a wide range of subjects, including health care, cultural diversity, criminal justice, national identity, history, communications, diplomacy, globalization and racism.
He has produced such hits as Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70s Generation, winner of a Genie along with the award for Best Canadian First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival, and, as Executive Producer, Project Grizzly, winner of multiple international awards - and inspiration for an episode of The Simpsons.
Flahive has been at the forefront of the NFB's innovative work with digital media, producing the groundbreaking multi-platform Filmmaker-in-Residence project at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, winner of the 2008 Webby Award for Best Documentary Series, against such competitors as MIT Media Lab, PBS and National Public Radio. He is currently producing Highrise, a multi-year many-media documentary project looking at global sub/urbanization. The Highrise web documentary Out My Window won a 2011 Emmy and IDFA's first-ever Digital Storytelling Award.
His most recent projects include the international co-production Paris 1919 (inspired by Margaret MacMillan's best-selling popular history of the post-WWI conference that shaped the modern world); Waterlife (about the Great Lakes; includes an acclaimed web documentary waterlife.nfb.ca); I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors; Invisible City (winner of the Best Canadian Feature Award at the 2009 Hot Docs Festival), and Cold Morning, three short films that were selected for the 2009 Venice Biennale. Flahive has also produced short films about Bryan Adams, Howard Shore, The Tragically Hip and other winners of the Governor-General's Performing Arts Awards.
Flahive is a frequent contributor to the Toronto Globe and Mail, and has been published in Time, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Toronto Star, Playback, Realscreen, Montage, P.O.V. and The Los Angeles Times.
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