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Robert Lang

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PRODUCER / WRITER / DIRECTOR: ROBERT LANG
Robert Lang, founder and president of Kensington Communications, is an internationally recognized, award-winning television producer and documentary director with more than 25 years of production experience. From science and social documentaries to performing arts programs and music specials, his work has covered the entire spectrum of production.

Lang began his career as a director and cameraman for the National Film Board in Montreal. In 1980 he founded Kensington Communications in Toronto, a production company, which has since completed over 150 productions for broadcast in Canada, the U.S., Britain and around the world.

Most recently, he completed the 3 part HD series Diamond Road for TVOntario, Discovery Times, ZDF/ARTE in Europe and SBS Australia along with a 90 minute version for German broadcast which was invited to 2007 IDFA. Diamond Road Interactive, a leading-edge synthesis of documentary, online community and collaborative filtering, accompanied the film’s television premiere in October 2007. Lang was Co-creator, Executive Producer of 72 Hours: True Crime, an ongoing doc drama series for CBC, TLC and Canal D, which dramatically recounts investigations of real crime mysteries. 72 Hours won two World Medals from the New York Festivals. From 1997 through 2001, he was Co-creator and Producer of five seasons of the groundbreaking, mutli-Gemini award-winning series, Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science for TLC in the US and Discovery/CTV in Canada. He also directed the documentary elements for 20 of the first shows.

Between 2000 and 2002, Lang was the Executive Producer and one of the directors of the four-part television series The Sacred Balance, based on the best-selling book by renowned geneticist and environmentalist, Dr. David Suzuki. The series celebrates a new scientific worldview, a vision of nature in which we humans are intimately connected to all life processes on earth. Critically acclaimed when it was broadcast on CBC and PBS Network, The Sacred Balance was filmed on five continents in HDTV and employed state of the art 3D animation techniques. It won the Platinum Award at Houston Worldfest, two awards at Yorkton and the Science and Society Prize at the 20th International Television Science Programme Festival in Paris and many others.

Over the past ten years, Lang produced and directed many documentary and performing arts programs, among them: Return to Nepal with Bruce Cockburn, Almost Home: a Sayisi Dene Journey, an intimate portrait of a Canadian aboriginal community in transition (CBC), Best Social Political Documentary and Kathleen Shannon Award at Yorkton; River of Sand which explores the ancient culture, popular music and current struggles of the people of Mali, West Africa (TVOntario, Vision TV), Best Canadian Film at Vues d’Afrique; Separate Lives, the Gemini-winning, Ace-nominated documentary which follows the lives of conjoined twins from Pakistan and the pioneering operation that gave them a chance at a new life (Discovery, BBC and the Learning Channel); The Biggest Little Ticket, a children’s musical fantasy special which won several awards for best children’s program (CTV, YTV).

Lang’s credits also include producing and directing for a number of high profile television series: the environment series Earth Journal with Richard Leakey for NBC TV in the U.S.; Britain's Granada series Odyssey; the popular BBC science series Living Proof; and The Nature of Things with David Suzuki for CBC TV. Among his over fifty international awards are Geminis, a Genie and awards from festivals in Berlin, Parma, Paris, Birmingham, Columbus, Houston, New York and Banff.

Robert Lang is a founding member and a past chairman of the CIFC, now called DOC, Canada’s voice of documentary film. He is the recipient of numerous awards for work in international development and the mental health fields, including the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.