During his 30 years with the internationally-acclaimed National Film Board of Canada, Gerry Flahive has produced more than 50 films and new-media projects on a wide range of subjects, including health care, cultural diversity, criminal justice, national identity, history, communications, diplomacy, globalization and racism. He has produced hits that have won a Genie, the award for Best Canadian First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival, and multiple international awards.
At the forefront of the NFB’s innovative work with digital media, Flahive has produced the groundbreaking multi-platform Filmmaker-in-Residence project (www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence) at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, winner of the 2008 Webby Award for Best Documentary Series, against such competitors as MIT Media Lab, PBS and National Public Radio. He is currently producing Highrise (www.highrise.nfb.ca), a multi-year many-media documentary project looking at global sub/urbanization. The Highrise web documentary Out My Window won a 2011 Emmy and IDFA’s first-ever Digital Storytelling Award.