Kevin T. McMahon

• 
  www.hotdocs.ca/pressrelease.aspx?ReleaseID=321 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/20/2007    Last Visited: 8/31/2007  

  Hot Docs pays tribute to Kevin McMahon, one of Canada's best-known documentary filmmakers, with this year's Focus On… retrospective, an annual programme showcasing the work of a mid-career Canadian filmmaker.A co-founder of Primitive Entertainment, McMahon has directed some of Canadian cinema's most daring and thoughtful non-fiction films.Sponsored by the NFB and Autoshare.

• 
  www.hotdocs.ca/pressrelease.aspx?ReleaseID=317 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/20/2007    Last Visited: 8/31/2007  

  AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KEVIN MCMAHON RECEIVES CAREER-SPANNING RETROSPECTIVE AT HOT DOCS 2007Hot Docs - MEDIA MENUS : Press Releases
  ...
  AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KEVIN MCMAHON RECEIVESCAREER-SPANNING RETROSPECTIVE AT HOT DOCS 2007For immediate release
  
  Toronto, March 20, 2007 - Hot Docs is pleased to pay tribute to Kevin McMahon, one of Canada's best-known documentary filmmakers, with this year's Focus On… retrospective, an annual programme showcasing the cinematic achievements of an established mid-career Canadian filmmaker.Focus On Kevin McMahon consists of four of McMahon's most remarkable films, made from 1978 to 2002.
  
  "Kevin is one of Canada's most acclaimed and inventive documentary filmmakers.
  ...
  A co-founder of Primitive Entertainment, Mr. McMahon has directed some of Canadian cinema's most daring and thoughtful non-fiction films.
  ...
  Hot Docs is pleased to announce that McMahon will be in attendance at all screenings to participate in post-screening discussions.Focus On Kevin McMahon screening times and film descriptions appear below.
  
  Focus On Kevin McMahon is sponsored by the NFB and Autoshare.
  
  THE FALLSD: Kevin McMahon | 89 MIN | Canada
  ...
  D: Kevin McMahon | 90 MIN | CanadaThis incisive and brilliantly conceived adaptation of McMahon's book Arctic Twilight examines the impact of militarism and Western mores on the Inuit, provocatively exploring the effects of politics, communications technology and bureaucracy on an ancient culture.
  ...
  D: Kevin McMahon | 90 MIN | Canada
  ...
  D: Kevin McMahon | 94 MIN | CanadaMcMahon's key concerns - the relationships between culture, technology, environment and national identity - coalesce in this artful and sophisticated overview of the guru of the electronic age, his background, ideas and insights into the maelstrom of our media environment.

• 
  www.doxafestival.ca/doxa-09/festival/films/waterlife.ht - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/3/2009    Last Visited: 11/3/2009  

  Director: Kevin McMahon, Canada, 2009, 109 minutes
  ...
  Director Kevin McMahon takes viewers on a tour of an incredibly beautiful ecosystem that faces complex challenges, and gives viewers a visceral understanding of the element that is so integral to our lives.
  ...
  Kevin McMahon is a film director and writer. His recent film productions include Face of Victory, a documentary about the end of the Second World War told entirely in still photographs, and Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii that follows the cultural rejuvenation of the Haida people. Kevin is also the director of An Idea of Canada, a meditation on Canada's coastline with the country's former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.

• 
  employees.uwindsor.ca/units/pac/nvdailynews/nvdn.nsf/to - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/21/2009    Last Visited: 9/22/2009  

  Kevin McMahon, the film's director, praised Haffner for his cooperation, generosity and his ability to "contextualize" the issues.
  
  "He was enormously helpful," said McMahon, who described the film as a watery road movie.

• 
  www.indiewire.com/article/michael_moore_gives_surprises - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/4/2009    Last Visited: 8/6/2009  

  Hitting close to home was "Waterlife," presented by Canadian director Kevin McMahon, exploring the Great Lakes that surround Michigan and the threats to their well-being. The surge in filmmaking from Palestine was honored in a sidebar of four films.

• 
  www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1600596 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/5/2009    Last Visited: 6/5/2009  

  With 'Waterlife,' Kevin McMahon aims to save the Great Lakes
  ...
  For years, filmmaker Kevin McMahon wanted to make a cautionary documentary on the Great Lakes.
  ...
  “It showed the commercial people that there was an interest out there in the environment,†says McMahon.
  
  And so, after six years, thousands of kilometres and countless interviews, McMahon plunges into the Great Lakes with “Waterlife†â€" a sobering look at an ecosystem responsible for 20 percent of the Earth’s fresh water.
  
  Mess with it, McMahon warns, and you mess with the planet.
  ...
  Thirty years ago, McMahon was a writer with the Brock University Press when he covered the Love Canal environmental disaster in Niagara Falls, New York. That abuse of trust and devastation on the environment played a huge role in 1990’s “The Falls,†which took a harsh look at the home he loved.
  ...
  The signs for trouble are all around us, warns McMahon. When will people take it serious?
  
  “As long as you turn on the tap and water comes out, and nobody tells you to boil it, you’re not going to think about it,†he says. “And you probably don’t go in the lake.
  ...
  For McMahon, a former reporter with the St. Catharines Standard, his devotion to documentaries runs deep. He has released nearly 20 projects under his production company, Primitive Entertainment.

• 
  www.primitive.net/waterlife-director.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/23/2009    Last Visited: 5/23/2009  

  Kevin McMahon
  ...
  Kevin McMahon
  
  Kevin McMahon is a journalist, author and writer.
  
  In May of 2007, Kevin was honored with a retrospective of his films at Hot Docs in the Focus On program. In 2005 Kevin won two Geminis for Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii, a feature-length documentary that follows the cultural rejuvenation of the Haida people. He has also won a Gemini Award for the Discovery Channel series Cod: The Fish that Saved the World.
  
  Feature films Kevin has directed include The Face of Victory; An Idea of Canada; McLuhan's Wake (Chris Award, Columbus Film Festival); Intelligence (Best Documentary Feature nominations at Hot Docs and Gemini Awards); In the Reign of Twilight (Award, Columbus Film Festival) and The Falls (Best Documentary Feature nomination, Genie Awards; Toronto International Film Festival selection). Kevin's films for television include Lifting the Shadow, Truth Merchants, and The Music Garden, a collaboration with cellist Yo Yo Ma.
  
  Kevin is also the author of the non-fiction book Arctic Twilight and several audio essays for CBC Radio's "Ideas". His newspaper work was honored by the Canadian Association of Journalists for investigative excellence, and he has received a Governor General's Award nomination for public service journalism.
  
  Kevin has degrees from Brock University, Carleton University and the University of Bristol in England. He is a partner in Primitive Entertainment, a Toronto film production company specializing in documentary. Kevin lives in Toronto with his three teenaged children.
  
  Waterlife - Director's Statement
  
  Kevin McMahon

• 
  www.primitive.net/about.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/23/2009    Last Visited: 5/23/2009  

  Kevin McMahon
  ...
  Primitive Entertainment premiered two new feature documentaries by leading Canadian filmmakers at Hot Docs in 2009: A HARD NAME by Alan Zweig, which was named as one of the Top Ten films at this year's festival by audience ballot; and WATERLIFE by Kevin McMahon, which won the Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature.
  ...
  Recent feature documentaries include: FOUR WINGS AND A PRAYER (Rockie Award for Best Wildlife and Natural History Program, Banff World Television Festival; Grand Prize, Pariscience); LOVABLE, the final installment in Alan Zweig's Mirror Trilogy; THE FACE OF VICTORY; STOLEN SPIRITS OF HAIDA GWAII (Best History Documentary and Best Direction in a Documentary Program, 2005 Gemini Awards; Canadian Association of Broadcasters Gold Ribbon Award - Aboriginal Programming, 2006); I, CURMUDGEON, part of The Mirror Trilogy by Alan Zweig (Silver Hugo, Chicago International Television Festival); and MCLUHAN'S WAKE, directed by Kevin McMahon and narrated by Laurie Anderson.
  ...
  Primitive Entertainment's founding partner, Writer and Director Kevin McMahon, was honoured at Hot Docs 2007 in the Focus On retrospective program.

• 
  www.straight.com/article-240588/emwaterlifeem-flows-tea - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/10/2009    Last Visited: 7/16/2009  

  Toronto-based director Kevin McMahon told the Straight by phone from that city that people getting teary as a result of watching his meticulously shot film is "not an uncommon reaction". McMahon's seen the same result in audiences in T.O. On July 17, Vancouverites will get the chance to see the 109-minute movie when it opens in theatres here.
  ...
  "Most places in the world get their drinking water from ground water, but the Great Lakes in a way is unique, in that almost everybody that lives on them gets their water directly from the lakes," McMahon said. "So, yeah, it hits home in that sense. The child[bearing]-age women are the ones that really come out of it with tears in their eyes because they realize that this is fucking up their bodies and therefore it's fucking up the genetics of their kids."
  
  McMahon does maintain clear focus on the artistic, never venturing too far into the more polemic territory of, say, Michael Moore-who also grew up near the Great Lakes.
  
  "Part of the brilliance of the filmmaking," Achbar said, "is that he [McMahon] manages to celebrate the beauty and the excitement and the human love of water at the same time as he delivers a lot of very important information about the damage that we are doing to it and that it in turn is doing right back to us."
  ...
  McMahon said he used about six different types of cameras to get what he needed.
  
  "We really worked hard to try and bring the water to life and use every strategy we could think to use," he said. "It's beautiful. That's what we wanted it to be. People have to appreciate the beauty of it to appreciate the threats."
  
  But the approach is not without its detractors. Both Achbar and McMahon readily concede there are risks associated with, say, keeping scientists anonymous and off-camera, as it invariably irks journalistic purists demanding attribution.
  
  "The lack of attribution of scientists annoys some of them," McMahon said. "I would say [of] the mainstream critics in Toronto, two-thirds of them loved it and a third of them kicked it about. That was their criticism: that it wasn't straightforward-enough journalism."
  
  Another criticism was the presence of First Nations voices, McMahon added. However, that particular risk may have paid dividends overall.

• 
  www.polarisinstitute.org/waterlife_nfb_film_about_the_g - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 9/10/2009  

  Waterlife is a new National Film Board documentary about the Great Lakes from Director Kevin McMahon.
  ...
  Director Kevin McMahon (recipient of the 2007 Hot Docs Focus On retrospective) navigates with fluid clarity through industrial intervention and natural splendor, from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, using breathtaking cinematography and CGI to show us the waters 35 million of us drink every day.

Page:  1 2 3 4 5