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EDGELAND FILMS
248 Princess Street - 2nd flr, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada R3B 1M2
W - Tel: 1 204 775 4092 ext.25
Fax: 1 204 783 2311
e-mail: edgelandfilms@ mts .net |
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HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR
- THE SWIMMER AS HERO -
This hour long documentary takes its inspiration from Charles Sprawson's landmark book on the history and cult of the swimmer, 'Haunts of the Black Masseur - the Swimmer as Hero'. Accompany Sprawson as he swims the le gendary Hellespont and into the Tiber. Meet two of todays greatest long distance swimmers who share their passion for and obsession with the water., Alison Streeter record breaking swimmer of the English Channel and Lynne Cox who swam one mile in the waters of Antarctica in nothing but swim suit and goggles. Join us on this journey driven by aqueous obsession and submersive passion.
Produced Directed Co-edited and co written by Jeff McKay
52 min. 2005
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A  Game of Death.
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F A T C H A N C E
What is it like to go through life weighing in at 300 or 500 pounds? This 72 minute Peabody Award winning documentary follows Rick Zakowich, a 300 pound Canadian social worker and Moe Lerner, a 500 pound Medical Doctor as they open the eyes of those around them and in the process their own eyes to the realities of being a fat person in a thin world.
Directed, Edited and co-written by Jeff McKay - 1994 |
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A N D SO TO BED < the documentary 60 min >
The bed is one of our most familiar pieces of furniture, yet we take having one for granted. The bed has offered refuge and a place of reflection for people for thousands of years. It is where we are for literally one third of our lives and where we imagine who we are and how we should live our lives. Beds are a symbol of home, domesticity, marriage and real spaces of contentment, love, fear and violence. This film reveals beds not just as a place where we take life lying down but how the bed has become an essential part of the vocabulary of human culture .
Researched, Written, Directed and Edited by Jeff McKay - 1998. |
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40 YEARS OF ONE NIGHT STANDS
THE STORY OF CANADA’S ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET
Born out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet set the ballet world on prairie fire. From Flin Flon to Moscow, it wowed audiences and critics alike with its youth, vitality and innocent excitement. The impossible dream of two determined immigrants grew into what is now the RWB family, surviving fortune, famine, and a devastating fire, to become one of the world’s premiere dance companies and the oldest continuously running ballet company in North America. The Royal Winnipeg Ballet - a Canadian treasure which has survived for almost seventy years, and still reflects the spirit of its prairie beginnings: guts, grit and a belief in possibility.
Produced Directed and Co Edited by Jeff McKay
72 min. 2008
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L I N D A T R O E L L E R
INSIDE THE FRAME – PORTRAIT OF A PHOTOGRAPHER
In this digital age when nothing is new – only new interpretations, Troeller’s images are rare, vitally present, s urviving as a window to an era of photography fleeting by. Like an impressionistic painter from another time, her photographs evoke the moment as seen through the memory of it. The film uncovers how she made up her unique style. As a veteran photographer of forty years, Troeller is exceptional. In a business which can crush the creative fire as quickly as it can be lit, she continues to focus on the world behind her closed eyes – her imagination, realized as photographs.
Produced, Directed Edited and camera by Jeff McKay
30 min. TB released 2009 |
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 C R A P S H O O T
- T H E G A M B L E W I T H O U R W A S T E S -
Down into the sewer everyday: thousands of synthetic chemicals, organic chemicals, every type of pharmaceutical drug, oils, paints, heavy metals, condoms, food wastes, radioactive materials, asbestos, hospital and dental wastes, just to name a few. Worldwide we’ve come to rely on the sewer to rid ourselves of almost anything that can be carried away by water. Once our wastes are flushed away they become the problem of whoever is at the end of the pipe. The technology we’ve inherited to clean up after ourselves may simply be compounding our waste problems. The sewer is proving to be an outdated, expensive and arguably ineffective system. With the ever-growing use of chemicals in our industries and homes, we have created a sewage system which ‘turbocharges’ these chemicals into our water and into our food cycles. We have become locked into a technological trap with the sewer. This 52 minute documentary contemplates the evolution and global legacy of the sewer.
Concieved Directed Researched and Edited by Jeff McKay - 2003 |
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Jeff McKay |
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Filmmaker Jeff McKay has worked as a director and editor for the last twenty-two years. His work has won awards for both directing and editing including the celebrated Peabody award for his feature documentary Fat Chance. Other films include And So to Bed, a one hour on the contemporary culture of the bed: Crapshoot, a multi-award winning one-hour documentary shot in Italy, India, Sweden, the USA and Canada on the world wide rape of our waters by man made chemical stews of sewage: and Haunts of the Black Masseur- the swimmer as Hero, one hour on the cult of open water swimmers based on the landmark book on the history of swimming by British author Charles Sprawson’s book of the same title. His new film is the 72 min. feature documentary entitled, 40 Years Of One Night Stands – the story of Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
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