Documentary feature films, television series & digital media

We make non-fiction that gets close to the wild, the changing, and the strange.

Primitive Entertainment is an Emmy-nominated, Webby Award-winning production company. For 35 years we've been sending crews into ice fields, jungle canopies, newsrooms, factories and archives to tell incredible stories.

35+
Years producing
50+
Awards worldwide
20+
Feature documentaries
150+
Television documentaries

Recent Films

Three productions streaming across Canada and beyond.

Empire of Bats
Deep in the jungle amid the ruins of an ancient empire, bat scientists gather for an all-out research blitz to learn more about the world's most misunderstood flyers.
1 × 60 Streaming on CBC Gem
Wild Wild Weather
How will global heating reshape the currents of air, fire and water that govern Earth's weather? A deep dive into the science behind the forces closing in on us.
1 × 60 Streaming on CBC Gem
The Birdman of Cooper Island
The world's toughest and loneliest birder, alone on a remote Arctic island, watching a colony — and a climate — come undone.
Feature Winner, Rob Stewart Award, CSA

Latest dispatches

News, premieres and honours from the field.

The Birdman of Cooper Island wins at the Canadian Screen Awards

Takes home the Rob Stewart Award for Best Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series.

35th-anniversary screening of The Falls sells out

A National Canadian Film Day screening of the 1991 feature, presented at the Paradise Cinema in Toronto.

Wild Wild Weather premieres on CBC Gem

Part of The Nature of Things, examining the science behind an increasingly volatile climate.

The Birdman of Cooper Island Premieres at Planet in Focus!

Official Selection, Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival, Toronto.

Broadcast & festival partners

Our work is commissioned by leading broadcasters and screened at major festivals worldwide.

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