Key Personnel for ARKTIKA: THE RUSSIAN DREAM THAT FAILED
Gary Marcuse Director, Co-producer, Writer (See also: filmography )
Mr. Marcuse is a Vancouver based writer and filmmaker. His previous documentary for CBC The Nature of Things was Nuclear Dynamite (2000) , a Gemini winning documentary about American and Soviet plans to use nuclear explosives for planetary engineering projects. He is the director of the Geminia winning The Mind of a Child (1996) a examination of the impact of residential schools on aboriginal children in Canada, co-producer along with Lorna Williams of First Nations, the Circle Unbroken, a ground breaking collection of documentaries about aboriginal communities, cultures and indigenous rights, widely used in Canadian schools. He was also the executive producer of Nettie Wild's documentary FIX and is the past president of DOC, the Documentary Organization of Canada.
Betsy Carson, Co-Producer
Ms. Carson began producing documentaries after concluding a 17-year career as a professional dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the Judith Marcuse Dance Co., where she was also associate artistic director. Since 1989, as a producer and production manager, her production credits include Nettie Wild's FIX, The Story of an Addicted City, A Place Called Chiapas, and Blockade; Hugh Brody's Time Immemorial, Gary Marcuse's The Mind Of A Child and Nuclear Dynamite and Arlene Ami's feature documentary Say I Do. Her series television credits include Champions of the Wild, Healing with Animals and Beyond Invention.
Kirk Tougas, Cinematographer
With more than 125 productions to his credit, Kirk Tougas is one of Canada's foremost documentary cinematographers. Working with independent producers, broadcasters, and the National Film Board, he has shot on location around the world. Films and videos he has worked on have received over 65 international festival prizes, including Berlin, Leipzig, Toronto, Nyon, Houston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, an International Emmy award, and nine Canadian Genie and Gemini awards or nominations. In 1999 A Place Called Chiapas directed by Nettie Wild won the International Documentary Award. Three times nominated as Best Documentary Cinematographer by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, he received this award for A Rustling of Leaves.
Stuart de Jong, Editor
Stuart de Jong also edited Nuclear Dynamite which has won eight international prizes including the Beijing Golden Dragon Award for films about science. Mr. de Jong studied film and photography in London and has edited a wide range of documentaries for BBC and Channel 4 on subjects ranging from New York punks to collectors of lawn mowers. His documentary Blue Notes & Exiled Voices won the prize for best short film at the 1992 International Festival of African Cinema. He also edited one of two documentaries for BBC on the Cuban Missile Crisis, which were joint winners of the 1993 US Emmy for Outstanding Historical Programming.
Henry Heillig, Composer
Composer and bassist Henry Heillig moved to Toronto from his native Montreal in 1974. He has performed with a variety of Canadian acts, including Sharon Lois and Bram, Nancy White, Carlos del Junco and Joe Sealy, but is best known as co-founder and musical director of the Juno-winning latin/funk/salsa band Manteca. Henry has composed music for several films and documentaries, including Gary Marcuse's Nuclear Dynamite and Mind of a Child which was nominated for best score at Hot Docs ! Mr Heillig currently leads the contemporary jazz quartet The Heillig Manoeuvre.
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