Getaway Films Inc

Tom Shandel Biography

Filmography

Other Films

2008	CT Colonscopy 30:00 training video for hospital radiologists, Multi-Media Services, Vancouver Island Health Authority.
2007	Eagle Arts Academy, Summer '07 5 hour DVD, Maxwell International School, Shawnigan Lake, BC.
2005	BROKEN PROMISES 30 min documentary aired on GlobalBC TV on April 23, 2005. Produced for BC Government Employees and Service Workers Union, Carol Adams & Stephen Howard, Executive Producers.
2004	SOCIAL GOSPEL & THE PUBLIC GOOD prod/dir/wr, Vision TV etc.
	TOMSON HIGHWAY GETS HIS TROUT prod/dir/wr, Bravo! TV etc.
2003	CIVILIZING THE ECONOMY 2 X 30', prod/dir/wr.
2001	MOI, EMILE PETITOT missionnaire et explorateur arctique, prod, SRC, 50:00
	I, EMILE PETITOT Arctic Missionary & Explorer, VisionTV, dir/prod/wr, 60:00
1999	THE CORPORATION co-producer, feature documentary, 150', "... case studies, anecdotes and true confessions reveal behind-the-scenes tensions and influences in several corporate and anti-corporate dramas." www.TheCorporation.com for more information.
1997	KEROUAC Director, performance video, incomplete. Based on a stage perfor mance by master actor Vince Balestri of the words and life of the Beat writer and thinker.
1996	BURDEN OF SILENCE Producer, 60' doc, CBC Newsworld. Directed by Daniel Gautreau, this one hour documentary for CBC's Rough Cuts, examines the circumstances around the suicide of a 17 year old who claimed he was sexually abused by his father, who was subsequently jailed for other sex crimes.
	DID YOU USED TO BE R.D. LAING? Dir/Prod, 2X50, Discovery Channel. Originally a 92 minute documentary for Ch 4 in England and re-cut into two one hours for Discovery Canada on the theories and practice of famed Scottish psychoanalyst and author RD Laing in his own words as he lectures, works individually with patients and muses on his life's work.
	PEOPLE FIRST prod/director, 30' doc, Govt Employees Union sponsored. Agitprop documentary on behalf the government service union fighting for public awareness of the value of their work delivering vital public services .
1994	BOOKWORLD TV Prod/Dir, 4 X 30' documentaries, CBUT Co-Production. Four 'light' biographical documentaries on BC writers: George Woodcock, Eric Nicol, Jeannette Armstrong, Peter Trower.
1992	THE PEOPLE Writer/Producer/Director, weekly current affairs, 90:00 Television Northern Canada, Yellowknife, NT. Bringing world documentaries to the people of the north with Dene and Inuit hosts interpreting the content for northerners.
1991	SPILSBURY'S COAST Exec Prod, 30' Doc, CBC, Knowledge Net, NFB. Directed by Harry Killas, a documentary on BC coastal genius and entrepreneur Jim Spilsbury who founded Pacific Western Airlines, Spilsbury radio telephony and painter of coast scenes.
1990	AMERICA, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT Dir/Writer/Co-Prod, 60' doc, CBC, TVO, PBS, BBC. Blue Ribbon '91 American Film Festival. Click here for more information.
	UNDEFENDED BORDER: KIDS & DRUGS Exec Prod/Prod/Writer, 60:00 live, TVOntario, WNED, Buffalo PBS & WTVS, Detroit PBS. 90’ Emmy Award, Michigan. Live TV from three separate studios linked by satellite sharing and exchanging attitudes and understanding about juvenile substance abuse among three distant neighbours around lake Ontario.
1988	UNDEFENDED BORDER: GREAT LAKES ExecProd/Prod/Writer, LIVE 2 hrs, TVO/WNED/WTVS CoProduction. Three views of the ecological state of this shared benefit.
	RUNAWAYS Producer, 2 hr Special, CBC National News. Cinema veritae on the mean streets of Mtl, Toronto and Vancouver over one 24 hour period. Raw TV.
1987	TRUE NORTH Series Prod, 4 X 60' doc series, PBS, Global, TVO, NFB.
1985	MEGADREAM Co-Director, 60' doc, National Film Board. Coal for Japan. They get the coal, we get the hole. The giveaway of natural resources.
1984	WALLS Director/Co-Producer, with Chris Bruyere, 90' fiction, SuperChannel/CBC/CITY TV. Prison drama propaganda for more humane treatment of prisoners. Murder of a hostage by attacking guards is complicated by fact she is an activist, 'con lover' hated by some staff. Based on real story.
1983	BITTER MEDICINE Director/Writer, 2 X 30' doc, NFB/CBC. On the twentieth anniversary of the birth of Medicare in Saskatchewan, we go back to Sask with Tommy Douglas as he helps celebrate the survival of the historic social benefit even then under attack from fiscal forces. A doctors strike in Montreal, hospital and office closures in Ontario helped place the reality of Canada's Medicare system in stark focus. The intense story of the medical association resistance leading up to a month long Doctors' Strike in 1962 in Saskatchewan is gripping and enlightening. The hysteria surrounding the idea of government paying for health care then is both amazing as it is recognizeable today.
1982	RAPE: FACE TO FACE Prod/Co-Dir, TVO/Knowledge Net/KCTS, PBS. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Award; Columbia/Dupont Award, New York. Four women raped by strangers sit down with four admitted and jailed rapists in a prison setting. Therapeutic confrontation.