Goalie

Life and Death in the Crease

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Clint Malarchuk - Goalie: Life and Death in the Crease

NHL goaltender, Clint Malarchuk’s life flies off the rails after a player’s skate cuts his jugular vein and he nearly bleeds to death on the ice.

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The Filmmakers


Geordie Day - Writer/Director

Geordie has written, produced and directed non-fiction content for national and international networks including Animal Planet, National Geographic, Love Nature, Cooking Channel, CBC, CTV, City, OMNI, CMT, Sportsnet, and Super Channel. Most recently he has been focusing on his true passion, documentary film. He’s wrote and directed, Living History focusing on controversial elements of Alberta's history, The Hardest Call about a Sikh firefighter working to reconcile his job with his family’s cultural traditions, and Unnatural Enemies: The War on Wolves about Alberta’s shockingly inhumane wildlife policies, which recently premiered nationally on CBC's Documentary Channel.

Geordie has a diploma in Broadcast Journalism from Mount Royal University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from York University.

Buddy Day - Director

Buddy Day has travelled throughout North America as the showrunner and director of the food adventure series Best in Chow for CMT Canada and Cooking Channel in the US. He was also director and showrunner for two seasons of Wild Obsession for Animal Planet. He directed the feature-length documentary The Salvation of Todd Bentley for Superchannel. His previous credits include producing 26 episodes of World of Hurt with Rowdy Roddy Piper, showrunner and director of The Big Pitch, Cultureville and Culture Secrets for CBC Alberta, and writer/producer of The Screaming Room for Corus and The Most Amazing on Rogers.

Buddy is also the creative mind and director of projects for corporate clients including Athabasca University, The Calgary Public Library, The Alberta Federation of Co-Ops, Wood-Buffalo Municipal District, Stewart Weir, St. Mary’s University and Bayer CropScience. He has a Bachelor of Nursing and Health Studies (BN) from Mount Royal University, and a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma of Counseling Psychology from the Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology at Athabasca University.

Nathanial Harper - Director of Photography

Nathanial has travelled the world capturing visually engaging content for broadcast and online productions in the US and Canada. He recently completed three episodes of Wild Obsession for Animal Planet, where he perfected his underwater skills capturing footage of great white sharks in the Pacific and tracked down alligators in the Florida Everglades. In addition to completing 25 episodes of Best in Chow for CMT Canada and Cooking Channel in the US, Nate’s documentary credits as DOP include the Ties that Bind: Leah’s Story for Omni, Living History at Heritage Park for CBC, Seeding Success: 100 Years of Olds College for CTV2, and the feature-length The Salvation of Todd Bentley for Superchannel. Nate’s past credits include Swamp’d for Animal Planet, Oddities for the Science Channel, Cajun Pawn Stars for History Channel, American Restoration for History, What the Sell? For TLC and Moving In for MTV.

Nathanial has also field-produced content for NFL.com, Pawn Stars on History and the WWE. He has a Bachelors Degree in Film and Television from Bond University.

Dave Alderson - Editor

In Dave Alderson’s 14-year history with Pyramid he has perfected his storytelling skills by working on a variety of reality, documentary and corporate projects. Under the pressure of tight deadlines and shifting visions, his role requires him to maintain the highest quality of work and precision. Dave’s expertise in Avid editing systems, documentary features and reality television can be seen in his work on Jann Arden: Free, W5: Murder for Love, @Nenshi4Mayor, Wild Obsession, Best in Chow and countless others.

Larry Day - Composer

Larry Day has more than 35 years of experience in film and television. He has created film and television series, documentaries and dramas for broadcasters across North America with syndication in more than 70 countries around the world.

Larry’s documentary work includes producing and co-directing Playing with Fire, a feature-length film about Theo Fleury for HBO Canada that won positive reviews at Hot Docs in Toronto. Larry also produced @nenshi4mayor, a behind-the-scenes account of how Calgary’s Naheed Nenshi upset the favorites to become North America’s first big-city Muslim mayor. He has written and directed two documentaries for CTV’s W5. Murder For Love and Road to Murder were the highest rated programs in W5’s 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 seasons and Larry recently completed his third documentary for CTV with Lloyd Robertson. Larry’s other recent documentary projects include two episodes of the animal doc series Wild Obsession for Animal Planet; Wild Horses of the Canadian Rockies for Animal Planet; Back in the Saddle: Faceoff with The Flood, the story of rebuilding the Saddledome after Alberta’s 2013 floods for Rogers Sportsnet; and Ties That Bind for Rogers and Omni Television. He has produced 27 Biographies for A&E, documentaries on W. P. Kinsella and Ian Tyson for Bravo, Jann Arden for CTV, an eight-hour series on Bollywood for Omni and a documentary on climate change for Global. Two of his short films played at the Vancouver Olympics.

Larry produced the made-for-television drama In a World Created By a Drunken God for APTN. It was directed by John Hazlett (These Girls) and nominated for three Gemini Awards: Best TV Movie, Best Actor and Best Editing. The film premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival. It opened the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco — where it won the Best Actor award. It also opened the Dreamspeakers Film Festival in Edmonton and was named Best Feature Film at the World Indigenous Film Awards.

Larry composes music for his films and has won two SOCAN awards. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan, a Bachelor of Education from University of Regina and a Bachelor of journalism Honours from Carlton University.

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