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our mission
Our Mission

Mining great stories visually, creatively, and compellingly shapes our understanding of our world. Through multimedia platforms, Mining Stories Productions seeks to tell stories that inform and entertain audiences by creating experiences that enlighten, build awareness and inspire. If we are able to transform and enrich lives as a result of viewing our programs and films, we're doing our job.

We mine stories but also seek to engage. Beyond the theatre, living room and multiple viewing stations, our stories will engender discussion and debate, linking audiences to people and organizations who are the engines of social change.

We mine stories to entertain, surprise, provoke, and engage.

about us
About Us

Mining Stories Productions produces meaningful stories in a visual format about cultural, social and environmental issues that move individuals and audiences. Relying on solid research, we mine stories that speak to the human and planetary condition with passion and thoughtfulness, and with a view to engaging audiences through multi-media platforms. Our creative team is made up of award winning producers, directors, writers and technical talent who are committed to excellence and care deeply about the subjects and issues that inspire our stories.

Mining Stories Productions has produced a one hour documentary commissioned by Witness, , Al Jazeera English titled In This Heaven, with a broadcast version titled Rings of Fire.  The broadcast will be launched on July 29, 2015 at 8pm/20:00 GMT.

In This Heaven/Rings of Fire, documents the tireless efforts of Mae Katt, a First Nations nurse practitioner who runs a mobile drug addiction treatment program in the remote underserved Matawa First Nations communities of Northern Ontario. In some Matawa communities up to 80% of the population is addicted to opiates. For over a year, the filmmaker, Candida Paltiel, follows Mae and her team to Marten Falls and Neskantaga, two formerly invisible communities, now negotiating future mining developments in the massive mineral find known was the Ring of Fire, situated on their pristine territorial homelands. The film reveals the dual struggle of Matawa communities to reclaim their health and determine the shape of their future on their land.

​Check out the film on the following Al Jazeera channels in Canada:  Bell Express Vu- DTH; Sasktel -IPTV; Rogers Cable Communications Inc - Cable/internet; Videotron Ltd - Cable/IPTV; Shaw Cable, channel 175; CCSA; Cogeco, channel 182; Rogers Ontario, channel 176; Shaw Cable channel 175; MTS Allstream Inc, channel 288;  NexTV, channel 36: Telus, channel 105.

To see the film on other Al Jazeera channels around the world click here and look for the program schedule online.

We mine stories to entertain, surprise, provoke, and engage.
our team

Candida Paltiel

Candida Paltiel
 

Candida Paltiel is a producer, filmmaker and writer with a profound commitment to telling stories about issues that matter, through a lens that inspires change. She is the producer, director and writer  of In This Heaven/Rings of Fire. From 2005-2010 as Artistic Director/CEO of Planet in Focus, she programmed the most important environmental films from around the world, in addition to expanding its national and international programs. Candida has produced, directed, field-produced, written and story-edited  a variety of award-winning documentaries and series programming broadcast on Canada¹s major networks. She taught in the Film Program at the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University and has filmed and worked in Bosnia, Spain, Honduras and Israel. Among the productions she has been involved with are: Nurses Care (1992) Acts of War (1994), Up At Dawn (2001), Reflections on A Lake (2000), and To Tell A Story - Generation 2000 (2000). She was the VP  of  Program for  the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs and in  2011 she was the Conference Chair of the Couchiching Summer Conference, From The Ground Up: Civic Engagement in Our Times. She received her BA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her MFA in Film from Columbia University, NYC. Her focus is on telling meaningful inspiring stories that engage viewers hearts and minds.

Victoria Ann Foote

Victoria Ann Foote
 

Victoria Foote, was formerly the Director of Communications for Ontario Nature, a non-profit conservation organization at the forefront of numerous environmental campaigns to save important habitats and wildlife in Ontario. She is the associate producer of In This Heaven/Rings of Fire.  Victoria was Editor in Chief of ON Nature magazine, widely regarded as the definitive source of information for current issues of provincial environmental concern. Under her tenure as Editor in Chief, ON Nature won numerous national magazine awards for excellence in coverage of environmental issues. Victoria received her MA in Environmental Studies from York University, and her BA from the University of Toronto in Philosophy and English. Her work has focused on the intersection between environmental issues and the needs of human communities.

George Browne

George Browne
 

George Browne is an advisor to Mining Stories Productions. A passionate public affairs documentary filmmaker, George Browne's many documentaries and television specials, include Toronto 2020 (2010), Saattuq; Thin Ice: Global Warming and Sovereignty in Canada¹s Arctic (2007), Recruitment for Terror (2006), Know Your Enemy: al Qaeda¹s Third Wave (2005), Tweens ­ Too Fast Too Soon (2003) and The Spirit of Bill Reid (1996).They have won national and international awards and earned him five Gemini nominations in Canada. He was the founding Executive Producer of Global National at the Global Television Network in Canada, and was instrumental in helping define the nightly newscast as the premier destination for Canadian viewers from coast to coast. Currently he is the Managing Editor of Globalnews.ca. Preferring to remain on the cutting edge, he leads a team of national digital producers in Toronto and Vancouver responsible for the daily editorial, development and workflow of Globalnews.ca, Globalnational.com, and Global16x9.com. He is also an instructor of Broadcast Journalism, Centennial College ­ University of Toronto Joint Program.