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.
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.
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.
"Prom Queen" est l'histoire vraie de Marc Hall, un garçon de 17 ans, élève dans une école catholique canadienne. Marc est charismatique, sûr de lui et ouvertement gay depuis l'âge de 15 ans. Le moment du bal de promo est venu et, comme tous les jeunes de son âge, Marc rêve d'y aller, mais surtout d'y aller avec son amant. L'administration de l'école s'y oppose de manière catégorique. Marc va devoir se battre pour imposer son choix. Mais lorsque les médias vont le "stariser" et que l'affaire va aller jusqu'à la Cour Suprême, le jeune homme va-t-il avoir le courage de continuer le combat?
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.
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.
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.