Primitive Entertainment

Primitive Entertainment (formerly Primitive Features), is a Canadian film and television production company, that was founded in 1990 by Michael McMahon and Kevin McMahon. Primitive Entertainment focuses primarily on documentary feature films, television series and digital media. [1][2][3][4]

Primitive Entertainment
TypeProduction company
IndustryFilm
Founded1990
FounderMichael McMahon
Kevin McMahon
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
Websitehttps://www.primitive.net/

The company has earned more than 40 awards world-wide. Recent awards include the Grimme Online Award for Culture and Entertainment, a Webby Award for Best Individual Documentary, the SXSW Interactive award for Activism,[5] the Toyota Earth Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival[6] and an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Nature Programming.[1][7]

Partners who have contributed to the company over the decades have included Kristina McLaughlin, Ian Kelso and Tom Perlmutter.

Filmography
  • The Falls (1991)
  • In the Reign of Twilight (1995)
  • Truth Merchants (1999)
  • Intelligence (1999)
  • Cod: The Fish That Changed The World (2000)
  • Ancestors in the Attic (2001)
  • McLuhan's Wake (2002)
  • I, Curmudgeon (2004)
  • The Digital Divide (2004)
  • Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii (2004)
  • A Perfect Fake (2005)
  • Four Wings and a Prayer (2007)
  • Lovable (2007)
  • Waterlife (2009)
  • A Hard Name (2009)
  • Canadian Made (2011)
  • National Parks Project (2011)
  • Beauty Day (2011)
  • La grande migration des papillons monarque (2011)
  • The Polar Sea (2014)
  • Spaceship Earth: The Fuel (2015)
  • Spaceship Earth: The Navigators (2015)
  • Spaceship Earth: The Engines (2015)
  • Spaceship Earth: The Passenger Cabins (2015)
  • Spaceship Earth: The Flight Crew (2015)
  • How to Build a Time Machine (2016)
  • Spaceship Earth (2016)
  • There Is a House Here (2017)
  • In Search of a Perfect World (2018)
  • Equator: A New World View (2018)
  • Coppers (2019)
  • Borealis (2020)
  • Writing the Land (2021)

References
  1. "OMDC SUCCESS STORY: PRIMITIVE ENTERTAINMENT". omdc.on.ca. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  2. "Primitive Entertainment [ca]". imdb.com. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  3. info@mandy.com. "Primitive Entertainment". crew.mandy.com. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  4. "Producers - Primitive Entertainment | McNabb Connolly - Dedicated to Enriched Learning Through Multi Media". mcnabbconnolly.ca. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  5. Piahtoronto, - (2010-03-15). "Waterlife wins SXSW Interactive Award". NFB Blog. Retrieved 2019-01-31.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. "Tokyo International Film Festival | Waterlife". 2010.tiff-jp.net. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  7. "Primitive Entertainment". primitive.net. Retrieved 2019-01-31.


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