Documentary - 2 x 60 minutes HD Scanning the spectrum from how our cells communicate to solar sailing, Light: More than Meets The Eye is a two-part HD documentary that considers this fierce, wondrous power we call light.

LIGHT - CREDITS

Director / Writer
MICHAELIN MCDERMOTT

Director of Photography
PAUL MITCHNICK

Original Music Composed by
CHRIS AINSCOUGH

Narrator
NICOLE OLIVER

Editor
AL FLETT

Production Designer
PAUL JOYAL

 

Cast

Sir William Herschel
JAY BRAZEAU

Fire Dancers

• RICHARD BAKER
• LACEY BAKER
• TISHIA-GAIL BAKER
• WESLEY NAHANEE

Waking Woman
CAILIN STADNYK

 

Production Manager
STEP CARRUTHERS

Production Coordinator
TARA KNUDSON

Assistant Production Coordinator
MICHELLE HIGNELL

Location Manager
STEVEN MURRAY

1st Assistant Director
KEITH GEISBRECHT

Additional Photography

• PETER CARTY
• ROBERT NEW

Camera Assistant

• PETER CARTY
• LANE KOCH
• DAVID ROMAN
• SCOTT COWAN

Sound Recordist

• BRENT CALKIN
• AO LOO

Animation by
KASPAR SAXENA & JOHNATHAN AMITAY

Still Photography

• JUSTIN LUBIN
• JOHN FASANO
• PETER CARTY
• PAUL MITCHNICK

Art Department Buyer
GAIL LUINING

Set Dec Buyer/Decorator
ANGIE KENNEDY

Set Dresser/Driver

• ROBERT CARSON
• JAMES KILCHER
• MATTHEW VERSTEEG

Art Production Assistant
STEPHEN GILLIS

Construction/Paint
SETSPLUS DESIGN LTD.

Airbrush Artist
PETER BRADSHAW

Key grip

• MIKE MCLELLAN
• GARY BROOKE

Best Boy Grip

• PIERRE HUBERT
• ED MCMAHON

Gaffer

• BILL DAWSON
• DARREN SINCLAIR
• RICHARD BRODET

Best Boy Electric

• RON BARAN
• LAWRENCE QUEWEZANCE

Grip/Electric
KYLE DRAAYERS

Make-up/Hair

• CAREY WILLIAMS
• JUNE JOCELYN
• SUZANNE BENOIT

Wardrobe

• MONICA TAYLOR
• NATALIE SIMON

Driver/Production Assistant
HAL GRAY

Driver
SHAWN MCGARVEY

Production Accountant
SHERRILL SIRRS

Production Assistants

• NANCY HARVEY
• LAUREN DANDO
• STEPHAN REINHARD

First Nations Consultants

• WOODROW F. MORRISON
• RICHARD BAKER

Post Production Supervisor
AL FLETT

Dialogue Editor / Sound Supervisor / Re-recording Mixer
EWAN DEANE

Sound Effects Editor
JEFF DAVIS

Foley Recordist
HENNIE BRITTON

Foley Artist
MAUREEN MURPHY

Visual Effects Supervisor
PAUL COX

Video Post Coordinator
LIZ THOMAS

Audio Post Services Provided by
AIRWAVES SOUND DESIGN

Visual Effects Services Provided by
NORTHWEST IMAGING & FX

Legal
BRAHM MARTZ

Footage Research & Clearance Supervisor
PAULA SAWADSKY

Footage Research & Clearance
CORINNA HAGEL

Transcriber
TRACE SITTER

Light Vignettes written by
DR. JAYMIE MATTHEWS

Creative Consultant
ANDREW GARDNER

Original Concept by
MICHAELIN MCDERMOTT

 

Additional Footage provided by

• Air Canada
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: TV Archives
• CBC Vancouver
• Peter Carty
• CELLS alive!
• Courtesy CNN
• Courtesy of Department of National Defence, Canada
• Robert Dick
• Peter Erskine
• Getty Images
• International Darksky Association
• Archival film and/or video material from the collections of the Library of Congress
• NASA
• NASA/GSFC
• NOAA/DMSP
• Producers Library Service
• Starlight Theatre
• Third Millennium Films

 

THANK YOU:

• Dr. Paul Shepson
• Dr. Jan Bottenheim
• Dr. Jacob Liberman
• Wendy Michnick
• Bryce Mc Naughton
• Cam McNaughton
• Father Augustine, Westminister Abbey, Mission, BC
• Harry Howard – Queen City Yacht Club
• Morimoto Restaurant, Philadelphia
• John Kennedy - Practicals Lighting Rentals
• Don & Leslie - Mount Pleasant Antique/ Furniture Rentals
• Acme Prop Shop
• Vialta Inc.
• "See" Props
• Hollynorth Production Supplies
• Can-Am Importique
• TAC Mobility
• Canadian Exotics

Produced with the participation of

• the CANADIAN TELEVISION FUND created by the Government of Canada
  
• the Canadian Cable Industry CTF: Licence Fee Program
• Telefilm Canada: Equity Investment Program
   
• CanWest Western Independent Producers Fund
• STAR CHOICE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
• THE CANADIAN INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FUND
• Produced with the financial participation of ROGERS DOCUMENTARY FUND

Produced in association with

• Knowledge Network
• SCN
  (LOGO)

Produced with the participation of THE CANADIAN FILM OR VIDEO PRODUCTION TAX CREDIT

Produced with the participation of the Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC

Produced with the participation of Rogers Telefund

Produced with the assistance of the TELUS New Media and Broadcast Fund

Developed in association with DISCOVERY CHANNEL CANADA

Production Executives for Discovery Channel Canada
Paul LEWIS
Robert Esposito

Producers

• CHRISTIAN BRUYÈRE
• MICHAELIN MCDERMOTT

Produced in association with Discovery Channel Canada, Mystique Films, Bedazzled Pics and Sunstroke Films