Running Time: 8 x 23 mins
Year: 2019
Original Broadcast Date: September 27, 2019

synopsis

In the Making is an immersive journey inside the creative processes of Canada’s leading artists. The award-winning CBC Arts documentary series, now in its second season, features groundbreaking and iconoclastic artists from across the creative spectrum as they realize provocative and poignant works of art. 

Host and series creator Sean O’Neill meets the artists at pivotal moments of reflection and change, taking viewers across the country and around the world to gain rare access to the intimate lives and powerful work of eight visionary artists. 

The scope of In the Making is multidisciplinary, and features artists working in visual art, music, theatre, dance and comics. Each episode follows a single artist, often over a period of several months and in multiple locations, through periods of risk and realization.

Season Two’s featured artists are: 

• legendary Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore

• visual artist and Guggenheim Fellow Deanna Bowen

• JUNO and Polaris Prize-winning musician Jeremy Dutcher

• 75-year-old resurgent electronic musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland

• renowned choreographer Christopher House

• officer of the Order of Canada and visual artist Ken Lum

• celebrated comic artist Walter Scott

• Iqaluit-based theatre artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

Each episode’s cinematic approach is inflected by its central subject, and the series is directed by leading voices in Canadian documentary cinema, including Chelsea McMullan and Amar Wala, who initiated a mentorship program for BIPOC directors in tandem with the series’ second season. 

Credits

Executive Producer & Host Sean O’Neill
Executive Producers Nancy Lang, Steve Ord, Peter Raymont
Co-Executive Producer & Showrunner Michelle Mama

Produced by White Pine Pictures In association with The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The McMichael Canadian Art Collection
With the participation of Canada Media Fund With the assistance of The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
and Ontario Creates

“HONEST, EMPATHETIC, INTIMATE ACCESS”

— NOW Magazine

“CLASSY, INTIMATE AND CINEMATIC”

— Globe and Mail

“AN ANTIDOTE TO REALITY TV”

— The Walrus

winner
2020 CANADIAN SCREEN award

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY IN A DOCUMENTARY SERIES
(Maya Bankovic, Ann Tipper)

NOMINEE
2020 CANADIAN SCREEN award

BEST DIRECTION IN A DOCUMENTARY SERIES
(Michelle Mama)

NOMINEE
2020 Golden sheaf award

BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Running Time: 8 x 23 mins
Year: 2018
Original Broadcast Date: September 21, 2018

 synopsis

IN THE MAKING is an immersive journey inside the creative process. The documentary series follows host Sean O’Neill across the country and around the world alongside some of Canada’s leading artists as they bring new work to life and face pivotal moments of risk and reward. 

Each episode follows an artist from across the creative spectrum—visual art, film, music, dance, theatre—with a unique approach to artmaking and something to say about the world. Sean visits artists at home, in studio, backstage, and in the field, giving viewers rare access to intimate creative spaces and inspiring moments of realization.

Artists imagine futures, wrestle with conflicts, and offer alternative ways of seeing ourselves and the world around us. Directed by some of Canada’s most innovative voices in documentary film and shot with a mix of hand-held vérité and cinematic visuals, IN THE MAKING explores what it means to move through the world as an artist today.

The subjects of the first season include: Lido Pimienta recording her new album in Colombia; Dana Michel performing at the Venice Biennale; Adrian Stimson facing historical trauma with AA Bronson on Siksika Nation in Alberta; Crystal Pite saying goodbye to a masterwork in Los Angeles; Shelley Niro publishing her life’s work in Germany; Curtis Talwst Santiago reframing histories in Portugal and New York; Divya Mehra challenging colonial legacies in Winnipeg and Delhi, India; and Chilly Gonzales beginning a new chapter in Paris. 

CREDITS

Executive Producer & Host Sean O’Neill
Executive Producers Nancy Lang, Steve Ord, Peter Raymont
Co-Executive Producer & Showrunner Michelle Mama

Produced by White Pine Pictures In association with The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

With the participation of Canada Media Fund With the assistance of The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
and Ontario Creates

winner
2019 CANADIAN SCREEN award

BEST EDITING IN A DOCUMENTARY SERIES
(Ian Sit)

NOMINEE
2019 CANADIAN SCREEN award

BEST DIRECTION IN A DOCUMENTARY SERIES
(Chelsea McMullan)

NOMINEE
2019 CANADIAN SCREEN award

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY IN A DOCUMENTARY SERIES
(Maya Bankovic)

NOMINEE
2019 CANADIAN SCREEN award

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC IN A DOCUMENTARY SERIES
(Kieran Adams)