Acimow Media

06/30/2025

What an amazing week for the documentary world!

From June 23-26, Barbara Todd Hager attended the international marketplace for documentaries, Sunny Side of the Doc in La Rochelle, France.

Barbara was one of the Canadian representatives at the industry event "Archives & First Nations," where she discussed with fellow industry partners about how best to access, protect, share and repatriate First Nation's audiovisual collections.

Thank you Elizabeth Klinck moderating this fascinating panel and to fellow speakers for the wonderful conversation:

🎤 Nic Meloney - Executive in Charge of Production (CBC)
🎤 Marissa McDowell - Executive Producer
🎤 Cyrille Lollivier - Directeur Commercial Valorisation des Fonds (GP ARCHIVES)
🎤 John HARVEY - Director

Special thanks to Creative BC for providing Barbara travel support through its Passport to Markets program ✈️

06/27/2025

Follow Tomson Highway Doc for all news and updates on our new feature documentary!

06/23/2025

Excited to be back again this year at Sunny Side of the Doc in La Rochelle, France. Many thanks to Creative BC and Telefilm Canada for supporting my company at this important international doc market.

06/19/2025

Acimow Media's producer & director Barbara Hager was selected to pitch at the Indigenous Screen Summit Pitch Forum last week at !

Barbara presented Gabriel's Crossing, a feature comedy that's currently in development, in front of a lively audience of buyers and filmmakers.

Her pitch video was accompanied with a live performance by Ronelle Schaufele, a local fiddle player. 🎻

Special thank you to Banff World Media Festival (), Indigenous Screen Office (), Canada Media Fund (.fmc), APTN (), and Rogers ().

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06/15/2025

Acimow Media is pleased to announce that it has partnered with White Pine Pictures on the feature documentary "Tomson Highway: Permanent Astonishment." Broadcasters are CBC's documentary channel and APTN. Funding from Canada Media Fund's POV program and Rogers Doc Fund. Barbara Todd Hager is writer and director, and co-producing with White Pine Pictures' Peter Raymont.

06/06/2025

05/30/2025

Congratulations APTN for 25 years of rich cultural celebration and wonderful storytelling 🎉

Acimow Media's most successful series, "1491: The Untold Stories of the America’s Before Columbus," is one of APTN's BC-made shows.

“An older program, but still one of our most popular series,” said Monika Ille, APTN's CEO. “It tells the story of many people’s histories pre-European contact.”

Thank you The Vancouver Sun for the mention! Read about APTN's top shows, including 1491, on the article linked in our bio!

05/05/2025

Acimow Media's CEO and producer Barbara Hager is heading to Banff this summer with an exciting new project!

A comedy-drama set in a small town on the Alberta and Saskatchewan border, Crossing Gabriel revolves around the local residents—Cree, Métis, Francophone and Scandinavians—all descendants of the town’s 19th century founders. The townspeople have learned to tolerate each other, as long as everyone stays in their own section of the local diner. After more than a century of peaceful coexistence, a decision made in Ottawa threatens the fragile civility in town.

Crossing Gabriel is Barbara's first scripted drama.

"I'm thrilled to be one of 13 talented Indigenous filmmakers to be pitching our stories at the Banff World Media Festival's Indigenous Screen Summit."

04/24/2025

Acimow Media's CEO and producer Barbara Todd Hager has been selected to participate in this year's Indigenous Screen Summit (ISS) Pitch Forum 🎉

Banff World Media Festival's selection of participants will present their projects to a panel of media funders, collaborators, and industry delegates on June 10 at Fairmont Banff Springs.

Congratulations to Barbara Todd Hager and all selected participants!

04/07/2025

¡Saludos desde la Riviera Maya!

Acimow Media's CEO Barbara Todd Hager attended Puerto Aventuras International Film Festival last week. Located in the Riviera Maya, the PAIFF is a premier film festival that hosted around 25 filmmakers attending from US, Mexico, Columbia, and Canada.

Attending as well was Octavio Del Río, a pioneering underwater cave archaeologist, renowned for his research and exploration projects focused on uncovering submerged human evidence within the cenotes and submerged caves of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Octavio is featured in our upcoming feature documentary Leaving Beringia!

03/18/2025

Looking for some writing tips? ✍🏼

Last month, Barbara Todd Hager took part in the Victoria Film Festival’s Springboard panel on screenwriting essentials along with industry heavyweights Leslie Dixon, Denver Jackson and Kevin Eastwood. Here's the advice Barbara shared with the audience on how to write great documentaries:

🎞️ Work on being a good interviewer. Find a genuine connection with the people who can help you tell the story.

🎞️ In documentaries, the people you interview are the glue that holds the story together. Be an active listener, and try to get to know the people in your film before you start the interview.

🎞️ Invest time in doing your research and piecing together the story with the non-fiction "characters" that are so vital to the documentary.

Did any of these resonate with you? What are your strategies to craft story for documentaries? 🎬

Let us know in the comments!