Mark William Mackay - Director of Photography
Director of Photography - Cinematographer - Handheld Specialist Cameraman
Lighting Director for Dramatic - Documentary - Reality - Nature - Spiritual
Experience: Studio Set Production, Commercial/Tabletop
On Camera: Cranes/Jib's, Aerials/Heli, Skiing/Rollerblades
Based: Toronto, Canada: Maceye3@yahoo.ca
Lighting Director for Dramatic - Documentary - Reality - Nature - Spiritual
Experience: Studio Set Production, Commercial/Tabletop
On Camera: Cranes/Jib's, Aerials/Heli, Skiing/Rollerblades
Based: Toronto, Canada: Maceye3@yahoo.ca
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- DirectorCynthia BanksStarsAnn-Marie MacDonaldDocumentary adaptation of the book "The Pagan Christ" by Tom Harpur for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- DirectorPenny WheelwrightIn 1703 a young girl is kidnapped by Abenakis Indians from the English settlement of Wells, Maine and force-marched through dense forests to a settlement in Quebec. Adopted by an Abenakis family, she lives in a Jesuit mission for five years before her freedom is negotiated by a Catholic priest. She is caught up in the clash between the English Crown and the French King and their Native allies who are fighting a bitter and bloody battle for territory. At the age of seven, Esther Wheelwright becomes a pawn in the highly charged struggle between Protestant England and Catholic France for the hearts and minds of North America. To the French, she was a prize captive who had renounced the religion of her parents; to her Abenakis family, she replaced a lost child and to the English Puritans, she was a soul they could not afford to lose. Esther Wheelwright becomes a passionate convert to Catholicism and refuses all pleas from her English family to return home and shuns an offer of marriage into the Quebec aristocracy to retreat into a cloister as an Ursuline nun.Among her extraordinary achievements, she rose to become Mother Superior, fought for the rights of the Catholics in Quebec, buried General Montcalm and helped to ensure the survival of the Quebecois after the French defeat in 1759. During her lifetime, she crossed the greatest cultural divides of the eighteenth century. Raised a Puritan girl, she became a beloved Abenakis child, was then adopted into the family of the French governor and became a French Canadian. She was a witness to the wars between the greatest political powers of her era and a major power broker from behind the convent walls.
- DirectorTim SouthamStarsLauren EvansFemale spies from Mata Hari to the Bond girls, are frequently portrayed as vamps whose greatest talent is luring unsuspecting male agents into bed to squeeze them for classified information. Recently uncovered files from the intelligence archives of the former Soviet Union reveal that women not only played an active part in operations but were among its most effective spies. The reality of these extraordinary agents who have worked behind the scenes at their trade has remained the most secret chapter of intelligence history. Among the most skilled and powerful agents of the Cold War was Kitty Harris, an uneducated Jewish émigré from Winnipeg who joined the Canadian trade union movement in her teens, ran favours for the mob, was married to Earl Browder, head of the American Communist Party and a bigamist, became a courier in China in 1927 and later, the lover of Donald Maclean, the British Foreign Office diplomat turned Soviet spy. She lived in Paris under the occupation as the alleged wife of the Soviet ambassador, worked with the Atomic spies passing on information about the Manhattan project and lived in Mexico when Trotsky was assassinated. She spoke several languages, had a retentive memory, immense courage and could repeat reports verbatim. Between 1935-1946, Harris ran Soviet agents in London, Berlin, Mexico and Los Alamos. Kitty spent much of 1941 in Los Angeles and New York, running agents who were close to members of scientist Robert Oppenheimer's family who had Communist sympathies, including a grocery store owner and a dentist. As a master of disguises and identities with iron-clad nerves, Kitty Harris ensured that she was never caught. She also survived Stalin's purges of the 1930's when 20,000 KGB agents were liquidated. Her controllers knew that she could be utterly trusted because of her complete devotion to their cause. She moved among the intellectual elite of Europe and North America who devoted their lives to their political beliefs, making huge personal sacrifices, often to disastrous consequences. Wheelwright Ink has been given exclusive access to new documents, including her personal diaries, about Kitty's life and work. Our consultant Igor Damaskin, a retired senior office of the KGB's First Chief Directorate who served under cover in the United States, has provided material for our film from the archives of the former Soviet Intelligence Services. His discoveries about the scale of Kitty Harris' international operations reveal the important part that female agents played throughout the Cold War. Kitty Harris is among others whose lives can finally emerge from the shadows and whose achievements recognised. The Russian intelligence services are currently considering ways in which Kitty Harris' Cold War contribution can be publicly recognised. In 2003 a memorial may be erected in her memory in a cemetery at Nizhny Novgorod, a place which had previously been a state secret. Kitty Harris' story intersects with the most influential members of the American Communist Party at the height of its powers in the 1920s. But she was also involved with central figures in Soviet intelligence such as Klaus Fuchs, the German physicist who passed information about the development of the atomic bomb onto the Soviets; Donald Maclean, the British diplomat and double agent who was Harris' lover and colleague; the American writer Agnes Smedly and Richard Sorge, the Soviet agent who was beheaded in Japan. Her encounters will all of these people provide huge scope for using news reels, contemporary propaganda and government information films, newspaper headlines and still photographs from the period. Kitty lived her life on the edge, a consummate professional who always knew who was tailing her and how to get rid of them. Her work took her to war-torn Europe where, as a Jewish woman, she risked her life to work against Fascism. The intensity of her life brought her into contact with some of the most powerful men within Soviet intelligence. But Harris, like many female spies, paid a high price for her zealous commitment to Communism and to her career as an agent. After her recruitment to Soviet intelligence she lived undercover or on the run; she had only a handful of visits with her family, had few friendships for fear of revealing her identity, and never had children. When her health began to fail in the late 1940s because of the cumulative stress of her working life, she moved to the Soviet Union where she led a lonely and isolated existence. In the 1950s, she was arrested as a 'socially dangerous element', endured seven interrogations and was detained at the Gorky Psychiatric Prison Hospital for more than a year. As she wrote in her diary during this bleak period, 'the only thing I know is that I am terribly lonely. My life is in pieces (who will take responsibility for my sufferings? Who will answer for the fact that in thirty years I have only seen my family three times? Just why have I had to go through this hell?' Kitty Harris reveals how and why a young Winnipeg woman from a hard working Jewish immigrant family became caught up in the maelstrom of international politics and was involved in some of the biggest spy stories of the century. It also enables us to reveal how Canadian intelligence services worked in an international arena during this vital period. Like many other North Americans who joined the Communists and worked for Soviet intelligence, she devoted her life to a cause and to a government that neither recognized nor celebrated her achievements.
- StarsTippi DegreTippi, 12, born in Africa, befriended animals like elephants, jaguars, monkeys, giraffes, snakes. She can communicate with them, respecting and protecting nature above all.
- DirectorSimcha JacoboviciElliott HalpernThe mystery of the lost tribes of Israel reverberates through three millennia of human experience. Of the twelve tribes mentioned in the Bible, only those of Judah and Benjamin survived the Assyrian capture of Israel. This is the story of the search for those remaining few.
- DirectorCheryl Foggo
- DirectorSun-Kyung Yi
- DirectorRobert CohenStarsSid DolgayJerry GoodisJerry Gray
- DirectorSimcha JacoboviciStuart SamuelsStarsNeal GablerR.H. ThomsonJ. HobermanThe history of the influence of Eastern European Jewish Emigre culture has had on Hollywood and the films created in its golden age.
- StarsTom HarpurScott AguilarWriter Tom Harpur hosts this series based in his book "Life After Death". In ten episodes Harpur talks about death, reincarnation, NDE (Near-Death Experience) and celestial or infernal visions that the people have when they are dead a few minutes. A scientist analysis about the world surround us and the famous "White Light" at the end of a tunnel that people see when they are dead, with real testimonies of the people who saw it.
- DirectorSimcha JacoboviciRoger PykeShot on location in Spain, Portugal, Israel, Canada, and the United States, this documentary traces the descendants of Spanish Jews who were forced to either flee or convert to Catholicism after Queen Isabella's edict of 1492. Many of these Jews had to practice their religion in secret, passing their furtively-recalled customs down through the generations. Exploring the history and culture of these "conversos," the film celebrates an enduring spiritual legacy which has survived centuries of persecution. Through interviews with the children of secret believers, the film captures the modern resurrection of something ethereal: the ghost of a people. The film features a Spanish/Sephardic soundtrack by some of the world's leading artists, including Placido Domingo.
- DirectorSimcha JacoboviciStarsHanan AshrawiNurit GalronMichael GreenspanThe Romans dispersed the Jews from Judaea in 70 AD; Islam became the religion of Palestine 1300 years ago. The film focuses on Gaza and the West Bank where soldiers and youths are caught up in the Intefada, and on the clash of history and ideas in regions to which both peoples have historical claims. The film intersperses in-the-street footage with interviews with academics, journalists, soldiers, artists, family members of prisoners, and victims of violence. With emphasis on the lives of the refugees and settlers, and following a "Golani" platoon of Israeli soldiers led by Lt. Kobi Motiv, the film dramatizes the irreconcilable positions of many on both sides.