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Screen Door (formerly Tapestry Pictures Inc.) is a Canadian independent production company founded in 1999 by Mary Young Leckie and Heather Haldane. The company produces film and television.
Screen Door is a Toronto-based independent production company specializing in dramatic films and mini-series.
Formed in 1999 by producers Heather Haldane and Mary Young Leckie, the company is the outcome of a long-standing professional relationship that began with their producing the feature film, WHERE THE SPIRIT LIVES.
The company's films have been shown worldwide by CBC Television, CTV, The Movie Network, Showcase, Hallmark, PBS, Canal+ and the BBC. Distributors for Screen Door's films have included Alliance Atlantis, Seville, Power, Marvista, and Oasis.
Filmography of Screen Door (10 films)
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The Climb (2007)
, 52minutesOrigin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports
The documentary takes Skreslet and fellow summiter Pat Morrow back to Base Camp, where they recall the traumatic and triumphant events of 1982. Pat Morrow has contracted a mystery illness that might prevent his return to the mountain. As part of the climbing party, Laurie Skreslet has brought his estranged nineteen-year-old daughter, Natasha. She has hardly seen her father in ten years. The Climb follows the events leading up to the 1982 Canadian climb of Everest. It examines the drama of the journey up the mountain as Skreslet and Morrow piece together using their emotional recollections of the events that happened twenty-five years ago, while on the trip back to Nepal and Everest's famous base camp. The film shows events as they unfolded on the mountain by using archival footage shot in 1982 while being narrated by Skreslet and Morrow.
Everest '82 (2007)
Directed by Graeme Campbell
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Eric Johnson, Jason Priestley, William Shatner, Leslie Hope, Meredith Henderson, John Pyper-Ferguson
Everest '82 tells the true story of the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest.
Directed by Alex Chapple
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Albert Schultz, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jason Priestley, Cedric Smith, Michael Seater, Rick Roberts
, 1h32Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films
Actors Mark Rendall, Graham Greene, Katie Stuart, Ed Begley Jr., Catherine Disher, Jonathan Potts
Simon Jackson is an awkward high school teenager who befriends a white bear that saves his life. He learns that the bear is endangered by the destruction of its habitat from logging and grows out of his shell to launch a campaign to the government to protect the bear. He then learns about the hardships of a campaign but succeeds with the help of his friend, Lloyd Blackbird, and his supporters.
, 1h32Directed by John L'Ecuyer
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Aaron Ashmore, Tamara Hope, Marie Tifo, Trevor Blumas, Jean-Pierre Bergeron, Dave Foley
In Inniston, Marc Hall (Aaron Ashmore) is popular and his sexuality relatively well-accepted by his classmates and later his parents. But when he decides to take his boyfriend to the prom as his date, he finds he has stepped over the line straight into the fight of his young life and sends ripples though Canada's media. From just an ordinary teenager, he becomes an icon for LGBT rights across the nation when he discovers he is battling discrimination to date whoever he wants within the spotlight of the nation's media cast center on his struggle,
, 2hDirected by John L'Ecuyer
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Tyler Jeffrey Hynes, Marnie McPhail, Al Mukadam, Christopher Jacot, Ron White, Janet-Laine Green
Jonathan Wamback starts his daily jog through the streets of his suburban neighbourhood. During his run he catches the eye of Courtney Henderson. Shortly after, Jonathan and his best friend Tyler start their first day of high school, where Jonathan notices Courtney again. As the boys are waiting to register, four members of a high school gang, Kyle Simpson, Donald Brooks, Trevor Smith, and Ben Luekens make a noisy entrance. They waste no time ganging up on a small grade nine student, mocking and bullying him. Jonathan steps in to intervene and quickly makes an enemy of gang leader Kyle.
The Arrow (1997)
, 3hDirected by Don McBrearty
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Sara Botsford, Ron White, Michael Ironside, Aidan Devine, Nigel Bennett
L'histoire du CF-105 "Arrow", un intercepteur biplace conçu au Canada dans les années 1950 par la société Avro, au temps de la Guerre froide. Malgré ses performances impressionnantes pour l'époque, seuls quelques prototypes ont volé avant l'abandon complet du programme en 1959.
Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
, 1h36Directed by Bruce Pittman
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Ann-Marie MacDonald, David Hemblen, Ron White, Sarah Williams, Graham Greene, Ron White
In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtoh-Komi is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a Canadian policy to educate First Nations children and assimilate them into Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school, where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under harsh treatment. One teacher is portrayed as sympathetic and she becomes repelled by the bigotry of others at the school. She offers Ashtoh-Komi help. Forced to take the name Amelia, Ashtoh-Komi determines to hold on to her First Nations identity and encourages her younger sibling to do so as well. She plans their escape.
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Everest '82 (2007)
Directed by Graeme Campbell
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Eric Johnson, Jason Priestley, William Shatner, Leslie Hope, Meredith Henderson, John Pyper-Ferguson
Everest '82 tells the true story of the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest.