Biography
Since founding Imageries LTD. in 1980, Montreal-based, documentary film producer Richard Elson has won numerous national and international awards, including an Oscar nomination for The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein. In 2005 Colours of my Father, was released by the co-producer, The National Film Board of Canada, as a DVD and in HD. -- In 1999 at the International Festival of Maritime and Exploration Films in Toulon, France, The Mystery of the Blue Whale, a documentary about the last giant mammal living on this planet, was awarded the Rolex Grand Prize for the protection of the underwater world. -- In 2005 Imageries LTD, along with Beitel/Lazar Productions, jointly created a new production company, Les Productions du Boulevard which produced the feature documentary, Chez Schwartz, broadcast in Quebec on Tele-Quebec and is internationally distributed by Filmoption International. --In association with Galafilm Productions, Richard Elson produced the 6-hour documentary series, Chiefs, for History Television, about the lives of such remarkable First Nations chiefs as Sitting Bull, Poundmaker, Black Hawk, Brant and Pontiac. -- What If... A film about Judith Merril, Bittersweet Deliveries, The Empty Net, Animal Connections, The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein, Bonjour! Shalom! and The Cry of the Beluga are among Richard Elson's award winning productions produced by Imageries Ltd. -- Imageries Ltd.'s current projects include, Once Upon A Story, a feature documentary about the story of storytelling, which Richard Elson is developing for Tele-Quebec. It is written and directed by Terre Nash, with support form the Societe de developpement des entreprises culturelles. -- Richard Elson continues his passionate involvement in support of independent Canadian documentary production and distribution. He is a past co-chair of the Quebec section of the Documentary Organization of Canada and past Vice-Chair and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund. He also served as the Vice-President of Cinema.
