Adobe Productions Inc

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By building bridges of mutual understanding between countries and cultures, Adobe Productions brings to life international television documentaries that capture the human spirit. Reanimating the sober, statistical documentary with an injection of emotion, complexity and universality, Adobe's trademark "up close and personal" approach delivers films committed to letting subjects tell their own stories. "We want people to feel that we're making a film with them, not just merely about them", says filmaker Luc Cote. Since Adobe partners Robbie Hart and Luc Cote began making documentaries together in 1986, their human approach to filmaking has led to international sales in English, French and Spanish to over 40 countries around the world, including broadcasters across Canada like the CBC, Radio-Canada,Vision TV, TVOntario, Tele-Quebec, YTV, SCN TV and the Knowledge Network. The Adobe duo have produced 27 documentaries on a wide range of hard-hitting international topics from street kids, violence against women, and native peoples to the environment, urban poverty and AIDS. Although the subject matter can be disturbing and challenging, a common thread that links all Adobe films is a lens tinted with hope and optimism. And with the gift of gaining uncommon access to the personal lives of people around the world, the viewer can't help but connect to film subjects in a very profound and vernacular way. "We get these intimate scenes because there is trust," says Hart. "These people...

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