May 2, 2014 - Toronto - National Film Board of Canada
John Kastner’s latest documentary Out of Mind, Out of Sight, co-produced with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), has won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Out of Mind, Out of Sight is the follow-up to the Toronto filmmaker’s acclaimed 2013 NFB-co-produced documentary NCR: Not Criminally Responsible. In his new film, Kastner intermingles the powerful stories of four patients declared not criminally responsible (or “NCR”) for violent crimes due to mental illness, following an unprecedented 18 months of filming inside the Brockville Mental Health Centre.
TV viewers will soon have a chance to watch this award-winning film, with the world broadcast premiere of Out of Mind, Out of Sight on TVO May 7 at 9 pm, followed by an encore broadcast the same evening at midnight, on May 8 at 10 pm, and on May 11 at 11 pm. The film will also be available for streaming at docstudio.tvo.org and on TVO’s Doc Studio iPad app, the day after its broadcast premiere.
Out of Mind, Out of Sight is produced, directed and written by John Kastner. The film’s producers are Deborah Parks, with Silva Basmajian as producer and executive producer for the NFB. The film is produced by J.S. Kastner Productions and the NFB, and was commissioned by TVO.
Quick Facts
• John Kastner has won four documentary Emmys – more than any other individual in Canadian television. He received International Emmys for his films Life With Murder, Fighting Back and Four Women, as well as a News & Documentary Emmy Award for The Lifer and the Lady.
• In 2007, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television honoured Kastner with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Kastner was also honoured at Hot Docs in 2012 with a Focus On retrospective.
• Out of Mind, Out of Sight is Kastner’s third co-production with the NFB, following NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (2013) and Life with Murder (2011), which received the Donald Brittain Award for best social/political documentary at the Gemini Awards.
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Associated Links
• Out of Mind, Out of Sight on TVO’s Doc Studio site: http://docstudio.tvo.org/story/out-mind-out-sight
• Out of Mind, Out of Sight trailer at NFB.ca: https://www.nfb.ca/film/out_of_mind_out_of_sight
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