A Few Good Men & Women
Zima Junction Productions' newest film is ChristCORE, a feature-length documentary directed by Justin Ludwig and produced by Robin Schlaht. ChristCORE is an inside look at the explosive subculture of Christian hardcore music, as filmmaker and atheist punk rocker Justin Ludwig goes on tour with two evangelical hardcore bands — newcomers Messengers and genre superstars Sleeping Giant.
Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting
Zima Junction's latest online project is Saskatchewan NAC (Network for Art Collecting). Saskatchewan NAC is all about Saskatchewan visual arts. The NAC website contains: an exhaustive database of SK visual artists, commercial galleries, public galleries and service providers; articles on Saskatchewan art and on art collecting; the latest Saskatchewan visual arts news and event announcements; an Artist of the Month feature profiling emerging Saskatchewan artists; the NACstore offering books, DVDs and merchandise; the NACmarket offering artwork on consignment; online contests and quizzes; and more. www.sknac.ca
This documentary series of seven 1-hour episodes follows municipal police candidates through their rigorous recruit competition, the demanding recruit training at Saskatchewan Police College and their first few weeks serving on the streets as new constables in Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and Estevan.
The series, co-produced with Calgary’s Agitprop Films, was recently nominated for two Golden Sheaf Awards at the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival (Best Documentary Series and Best Direction in Non-Fiction). And TV Guide recently called the program: “Eye-opening and entertaining....It’s like nothing we’ve seen before.”
| Available now, the 3-DVD set containing all 7 episodes of A Few Good Men & Women for only $49.95 (total 336 minutes). Shipping is just $5.95 per order, regardless of quantity. |
To Be Romeo & Juliet At its world premiere at the Possible Worlds Film Festival in Sydney Australia, Zima Junction Productions' recent film To Be Romeo & Juliet won the Audience Award, with an astonishing approval rating of 3.8 out of 4!
This 103-minute documentary accompanies actors as they prepare to portray Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in three different stage productions in three different countries. Emotional meltdowns, twisted ankles and cast mutinies are all part of what it takes to be Romeo and Juliet at a youth summer camp production in Guelph, Canada, an amateur production in Reading, England, and a professional production at the Chilean National Theatre.
The film garnered rave reviews as its premiere in Sydney, with Sydney Arts Journal stating that the film is "raw, revealing....sets the standard for arts documentary." And when it appeared at another Australian festival, the Young At Heart Film Festival, Time Out Sydney wrote “This film is a joyous experience, not just in its exploration of theatre, but of that old barnacle human nature.”
The film also won the Best Arts/Entertainment Production award at the recent biannual Saskatchewan Showcase Awards. [more...]
Zima Junction Productions is a motion picture production company based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, which seeks to create engaging and enriching films - to explore subjects often overlooked by mainstream producers, and to create works which are ennobling and life affirming.