January 17, 2012 - BEAUTY DAY is nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 32nd annual Genie Awards.
January 17, 2012 - THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT: SIRMILIK is nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 32nd annual Genie Awards.
November 14, 2011 - CANADIAN MADE wins Platinum (Animation) and Gold (Use Of Effects) at the Pixie Awards.
November 4, 2011 - THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT is nominated for Best In Cross Platform: Factual at the Digi Awards.
October 27, 2011 - THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT is nominated for Best Limited Series at the International Documentary Association Awards.
October 24, 2011 - BEAUTY DAY wins Best Documentary at the Flyway Film Festival.
October 12, 2011 - KEVIN McMAHON is awarded the 2011 Canadian Eco Hero Award at the Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.
October 5, 2011 - FilmCAN and Primitive Entertainment’s NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT wins Bronze, Transmedia at the inaugural AToMIC Awards.
September 22, 2011 - Celebrated Filmmaker Kevin McMahon Receives Canadian Eco Hero Award. Award-winning filmmaker and writer Kevin McMahon will receive the 2011 Canadian Eco Hero Award for his work in raising environmental awareness and exploring environmental issues and stories through film. For more than 30 years, Kevin has been exploring humankind's relationship to the natural world, earning various awards including several Geminis and, this year, the Earth Grand Prix from the Tokyo International Film Festival.
August 31, 2011 - Primitive Entertainment and FilmCAN win the Gemini Award for Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series for THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT.
August 3, 2011 - Primitive Entertainment & FilmCAN nominated for two Gemini Awards for THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT in the categories of Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series and Best Cross-Platform Project - Non-Fiction.
March 22, 2011 - Alan Zweig is the subject of this year's FOCUS ON retrospective at Hot Docs. Three of Alan's feature documentaries produced by Priimitive Entertainment, I, CURMUDGEON; LOVABLE; and A HARD NAME, will screen as part of the programme.
March 22, 2011 - BEAUTY DAY and THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT make their Canadian premiere at Hot Docs.
March 20, 2011 - BEAUTY DAY makes its world premiere at The Museum of Modern Art.
March 18, 2011 - THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT makes its US premiere at SXSW.
February 10, 2011 - THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT: SIRMILIK makes its world premiere at The Berlin Film Festival.
October 29, 2010 - WATERLIFE wins the Toyota Earth Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival, 2010
August 25, 2010 - WATERLIFE nominated for Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media - Non-Fiction at the 2010 Gemini Awards.
August 25, 2010 - ANCESTORS IN THE ATTIC nominated for Best Direction in a Documentary Series at the 2010 Gemini Awards.
July 15, 2010 - FOUR WINGS AND A PRAYER (a.k.a THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF THE BUTTERFLIES) nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Nature Programming.
April 23, 2010 - WATERLIFE wins the 2010 Webby Award in the category of Documentary, Single Episode. To view the WATERLIFE web site, please click here.
April 12, 2010 - A HARD NAME wins the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary .
March 27, 2010 - John Minh Tran has won the Canadian Society of Cinematographer's Award in the category of Best Documentary Cinematography for WATERLIFE.
March 14, 2010 - WATERLIFE wins the 2010 SXSW Web Award in the category of Activism (Green and Non-profit websites that are striving to make the world a better place).
March 1, 2010 - A HARD NAME nominated for a Genie Award in the Best Feature Length Documentary category.
February 1st, 2010 - WATERLIFE wins the City of Karlsruhe Prize (for best educational, social or science multimedia product) at BakaFORUM 2010.
December 1st, 2009 - WATERLIFE wins Best Cross-Platform Project at the Canadian New Media Awards. This category recognizes excellence in interactive enhancement of a television property on digital platforms.
November 11th, 2009 - WATERLIFE wins Best Of Show at the Digital Marketing Awards. The site also won a Gold in the Entertainment, Arts & Tourism category.
August 25th, 2009 - ANCESTORS IN THE ATTIC is nominated for a Gemini in the Best Documentary Series category.
July 15th, 2009 - WATERLIFE selected to screen at Michael Moore's film festival, the Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan.
May 8, 2009 - WATERLIFE wins the Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature at Hot Docs.
May 8, 2009 - A HARD NAME - Top Ten Audience Favourite at Hot Docs, and a finalist for the Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature.
December 18, 2008 - Primitive Entertainment garners two CFTPA Indie Award nominations from the Candadian Film and Television Producers Association.
August 26, 2008 - Primitive Entertainment garners seven Gemini nominations.
June 9, 2008 - FOUR WINGS AND A PRAYER wins the Rockie Award for Best Wildlife and Natural History Program and the Banff World Television Festival.