Traill College

Join Traill College in welcoming Peter Raymont, one of Canada's most acclaimed documentary film makers, as Filmmaker in Residence. He has won four Gemini Awards, an Emmy Award, a Genie Award and a Canadian Screen Award, as well as major prizes at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival and many more. Raymont’s films have covered a wide range of topics; from the American manipulation of news from Central America in The World Is Watching (1988) and The World Stopped Watching (2003), to the Rwandan genocide in Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2004). Magic in the Sky (1981) documented the creation of an Inuit-language TV network in the Canadian Arctic. He collaborated with James Cullingham of Tamarack Productions to produce As Long as the Rivers Flow (1991), a five-episode series on Indigenous self-government; A Scattering of Seeds: The Creation of Canada (52 episodes, 1998–2002), featuring stories of Canadian immigrants; and The New Ice Age: A Year in the Life of the NHL (1997), following professional hockey from behind the scenes.

For more information about Peter Raymont, please visit White Pine Pictures.