about us

Clearwater Media is one of Canada’s leading independent production companies, specialising in long-form documentary for film and television. The company has developed projects for broadcasters around the world, including BBC, Discovery, PBS, History Television, National Geographic, NRK, NHK, CBC, CTV, Global and the National Film Board of Canada.

Recent projects have tackled Canada’s tar sands (Tar Sands: Canada for Sale, CBC/NRK/NHK), the legacy of Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stephansson (Arctic Dreamer, History), the science of mass extinctions (End of Evolution, NFB/Discovery) and the origins of the modern Inuit (Inuit Odyssey, CBC/APTN). Projects in development include films on Canadian author Farley Mowat, the urban age, the extinction of aboriginal languages and the disappearance of Canada’s migratory caribou. The company is also working with the BBC’s Natural History Unit on its next megaseries, Frozen Planet (2011).

We take our name from the Clearwater River, tumbling from the vast glaciers of Canada’s Rocky Mountains, for millennia known to the First Nations as the backbone of the world. Today, the ice is melting as a global climate crisis accelerates. One of the many issues we tackle in our distinguished filmography of natural history, science, and investigative documentaries.