DREAMFILM has two new documentaries coming in the 2010-2011 season.
Stay tuned for "X-CARS" on the Discovery Channel in fall 2010, and "THOROUGHLY MODERN MARRIAGE" on CBC-TV's Doc Zone in early 2011.
DREAMFILM has two new documentaries coming in the 2010-2011 season.
Stay tuned for "X-CARS" on the Discovery Channel in fall 2010, and "THOROUGHLY MODERN MARRIAGE" on CBC-TV's Doc Zone in early 2011.
"X-CARS" is a two-hour documentary special that traces the journey of an automotive dream. From a sketch on a napkin in 1985, to the $10 million Progressive Automotive X-Prize races in the summer and fall of 2010, George Parker and his Future Vehicle Technologies (FVT) team from Maple Ridge, BC have become one of the top contenders in the international competition to build a mass-market car that can get more than 100 mpg with a range of at least 200 km.
Through the obstacles and the breakthroughs of constructing the car literally piece by piece, to the triumphs and disappointments of competition preparation and the races themselves, we'll be with the FVT team every step of the way. With a budget that's a fraction of most of their glossy competitors, it's a ride that isn't always going to be pretty – but it's guaranteed to be very, very real.
THOROUGHLY MODERN MARRIAGE is a provocative exploration of the current state of our most fascinating social institution – an institution that has undergone dizzying change over the last fifty years. It's been battered and beaten and tested to its ultimate limits, and it's in the news like never before. From Jon & Kate, to Archie and Veronica, we're struggling to make sense of what marriage means. What's a modern marriage about, anyway? Given the high divorce rate and the ability to live common-law, why bother getting married?
There is no better time to bring this subject to the fore. For the first time in Canadian history, there are more unmarried people than married – a controversial tipping point, and a dangerous one according to some. It's prompted proponents of marital hearth and home to step up their support of the beleaguered institution - voices as diverse as health economists, liberal sociologists, marriage historians, and twenty-somethings who still believe in the white dress and the walk down the aisle.
THOROUGHLY MODERN MARRIAGE asks the central question, can marriage be saved? Should it be?