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Catherine Bainbridge is a trailblazing documentary producer and co-founder (2001) of Resolution Pictures International. Her productions over the past ten years have brought fascinating stories and issues to the screen. Recent executive producer credits include the two-part documentary special One More River (2004; Best Documentary, Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québecois), a behind-the-scenes look at how the Cree people of Quebec voted to allow more damming of their rivers, and Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec (2004), a hard-hitting documentary about a Northern Quebec community being devastated by toxic mining waste. She also oversaw production of Mohawk Girls (2004), a documentary co-produced with the NFB about teenage Native girls growing up on a Mohawk reserve in Kahnawake, QC.
She also executive produced three seaons of the popular APTN television series, Absolutely Cree / DAB IYIYUU Season I (2003), Absolutely Aboriginal / DAB IYIYUU Seaon II (2004), DAB IYIYUU Season III (2005), about wilderness skills and legends explained by the last generation of elders.
Catherine is also one of the co-founders of The Nation, the first-ever newsmagazine to serve the Crees of northern Quebec and Ontario. In 2000, the Montreal chapter of Women in Film and Television honoured Catherine as the most promising filmmaker of the year. During the same year, she also executive produced the Telefilm/APTN award-winning documentary Cree Spoken Here.
Catherine co-created and executive produced Moose TV, the eight part comedy series for Showcase that follows the antics inside a small town TV station. She is currently executive producing Mommy, Mommy a documentary about gay parenting for CBC's The Lens, Rez Rides (a garage culture show for APTN), Reel Indian, a feature length documentary about the evolution of the image of the North American Native in film and television (for APTN and CBC's The Passionate Eye) as well as the historical docu-drama The Last Explorer. The film tells the story of the famous "last great race" when two groups of American explorers competed to be the first to chart the interior of Labrdor over one hundred years ago - but unlike most exploration stories - this one is told from the point-of-view of the Native guide, George Elson, the great uncle of co-director Neil Diamond.
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