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Martin Kent
An accomplished documentarian whose directorial credits include the Gemini Award-winning Donald Brittain: Filmmaker, Atlantic Centre Executive Producer Kent Martin has been bringing great stories to the screen for nearly three decades.
Kent's recent productions include the acclaimed NFB documentary Westray, a moving account of the 1992 mine disaster winner that garnered the Genie for Best Documentary, as well as The Spirit of Annie Mae, looking back at an influential Nova Scotia-born Aboriginal activist murdered under mysterious circumstances. He also served as NFB producer on the Genie-nominated co-production Men of the Deeps, about a choir of retired coal miners, which aired nationally on CTV and was hailed as a «gem» by the Globe and Mail.
New releases include the NFB feature doc Animals, an exploration of the human-animal relationship that received the Rex Tasker Award for Best Documentary, as well as the timely NFB co-pro Teaching Peace in a Time of War.
