About Us

UrbanRez.ca is an independent producer of Canadian cultural content.
Our website, urbanrez.ca, has been used primarily as a site to promote our television properties as well as to profile the individuals who have been featured in our documentaries. Among the programs is the Ravens and Eagles, Haida Art series, 26 half hour shot on Haida Gwaii. Another series is the emergence of an indigenous film and television industry in Canada, Storytellers in Motion 1-39.

UrbanRez.ca is committed to storytelling in the digital media industry. Our primary goal is to find relevant, timely and inspiring stories of the life and times of Canada’s aboriginal community.

Our current production is called SAMAQAN, Water stories. This series examines the physical, economic, cultural and spiritual dimensions of our connection to water.

We hope you enjoy the shows, the articles, the pictures and our view of the world. There is much to see and plenty of ways to provide .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Our first television series was Ravens and Eagles, Haida Art, Episodes, 1-26. Photographed entirely on Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia, this series was based on five themes that helped us to focus attention on the meaning of Hadia art to Haida people. We featured contemporary artists with viewpoints that covered the gamut of modern and historical perspectives of Haida art.

We then produced 39 half hour episodes of a series called Storytellers in Motion.

The documentary series focus was to document the evolution of indigenous media culture in Canada though the life experiences and works of directors, producers, writers and actors. We have examined the works of selected Aboriginal films and filmmakers. Their voices come from the indigenous cultures of Canada and New Zealand. Their tools are the communications technologies of the twenty first century.

Urbanrez.ca was the first producer to coin the phrase “The Indigenous Voice”.

Our current production is called SAMAQAN, Water stories. This series examines the physical, economic, cultural and spiritual dimensions of our connection to water. The production team crisscrossed the America’s talking to indigenous people about why water is important to them. We will feature stories about salmon, about dams, about canoe building and canoe voyages as well as to illustrate some of the dangers posed by human use of water. This TV series will also have an innovative digital identity.

Our goal and mission with Urban Rez Productions Inc. is to foster the growth and development of aboriginal television and entertainment professionals. Our method is to mentor and encourage individuals who demonstrate motivation and inspiration. In our first ten years as independent producers we have provided a work experience to a handful of film and television graduates who are now working professionals.

Urbanrez.ca was first designed in 2003 when the INTERNET was still struggling to define itself in the diaspora of cyberspace, our latest frontier in the field of infotainment. Human consumption of still and moving images, of words and music, of games and social networking is the stuff of today. And it is what drives the content maker, always probing and thinking of new and innovative ways to entertain the over-entertained.

We hope you enjoy the shows, the articles, the pictures and our view of the world.