For almost twenty years Merit Motion Pictures (MMP) has worked with Canada’s foremost writers and directors to produce top quality award-winning lifestyle, documentary and dramatic programming. Passionate about good writing, thorough research, and beautiful cinematography MMP is recognized within the industry for providing programs which entertain, inform, and reflect the comedy, the drama and the pathos of the human experience. 

Recent programs include:

• Recreating Eden - Season V: 13 x ½ hour HD nature/biography series for Vision TV.
• The Science of the Senses: 4 x 1 hour HD documentary series co-produced with CBC’s The Nature of Things.
• 4Teen Stories: 1 x 1 hour HD documentary for CTV.
• The Truth About Liars: 1 x 1 hour HD documentary for CBC’s Doc Zone.
• 40 Years of One Night Stands: Feature length and  1 x 1 hour documentary for BRAVO!. Co-produced with Inside Out Productions.
• Ballet High: 1 x 90 minute documentary for BRAVO!. Co-produced with the International Emmy Award-winning company vonnie VON HELMOLT film.

Recently MMP completed production on Sabrina’s Law: a 1 hour HD documentary about children with deadly peanut allergies featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr., co-produced with Lank/Beach Productions, CanWest MediaWorks and the National Film Board of Canada for Global Currents; the fourth season of Recreating Eden for VisionTV; the 3 x 1 hour family documentary miniseries Ballet Girls for BRAVO!; and Haunts of the Black Masseur a co-production between Edgeland Films, ZDF/ARTE and TVO. Other notable award-winning documentaries produced by MMP include: Drug Deals: the Brave New World of Prescription Drugs and The Pill both co-produced with the National Film Board for broadcast on the CBC series The Nature of Things.

MMP has won many awards and has been nominated for six Gemini Awards (Canada’s Emmy) and won two for its series Recreating Eden. Other awards include a Platinum and Silver Remi at the WorldFest in Huston; a Silver Medal at the Chicago Film Festival; two Golden Sheaf Awards, a Bronze Plaque at the Columbus Film Festival and the prestigious LA Humanitas Award for films of humanitarian significance. Its family Christmas special Smudge was officially selected as TNT’s nominee for an International Emmy.

MMP is pleased to have worked with a wide range of broadcasters and co-production partners including CBC, CTV, Turner Network Television, Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting, the National Film Board, the Discovery Channel, Bravo!, TVO, Global Television, Vision TV, ZDF/ARTE and many others who have come to rely on the creative approach, in depth research, and the care and respect MMP extends to everyone they work with and each project they produce.

NEWS

Ballet High

World Television Premiere on Bravo! on April 2, 2009 at 9pmET / 6pm PT and will be repeated on April 3, 2009 at 10amET / 7am PT and 4pmET / 1pm PT.

Ballet High is a unique window into the world of a group of typical teenagers leading far-from-typical teenage lives. This is the story of the graduating class of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Division and over the last seven years, it's been non-stop plies, jetés, pas de deuxs and pirouettes for these teens. But the stakes are high. After spending $150,000 on tuition and living most of their teenage years away from their families, they have this final year to prove that they have what it takes to become a professional dancer.

For more information on how to order a dvd copy of Ballet High, please visit the "PRODUCTIONS" page.