Landmarks

Landmarks

Concept

Landmarks is about places that matter to people. Our stories come alive through people who love where they live.

History builds like sedimentary layers on a river bottom. Landmarks lifts the layers to reveal surprising stories that are entertaining and informative.

The story is always local. Yet the message is universal.

Landmarks series box artLandmarks is an open-ended tourism and travel series. In 2022/23 we produced five 10-minute Landmarks stories in two small Western Canadian communities – Prince George, B.C. and Fort McMurray, Alberta.

We learned that Landmarks stories are found anywhere. Our stories examined the importance of statues and still waters. Our cameras rode on dinky trains, floatplanes and racing automobiles. We interviewed people from all backgrounds and cultures.

Having proven the concept, Tangerine Productions Ltd. is keen to tell more Landmarks stories wherever a production budget will take us.

Our stories will always be informative and heart-warming. We will celebrate Landmarks with their local residents, while informing a worldwide audience about the meaning of these special places.

Landmarks is an ideal TV and internet series for tourism agencies and travel broadcasters everywhere. Since the series is considered ‘documentary’ it is eligible for Alberta and federal funding that expands the production budget by more than 30 per cent.

A client may choose which Landmarks the production will make stories about. Financial and production details are available for interested parties. Please contact Peter Hays to arrange a meeting soon.

The Series

Landmarks season one (2022) is comprised of five 10-minute stories. Two stories are set in the Fort McMurray / Wood Buffalo, Alberta region; and three stories are told in Prince George, B.C.

Definition

land·mark
/ˈlan(d)ˌmärk/
noun

  1. an object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location.

“The spire was once a landmark for ships sailing up the river.”

SEASON ONE

EPISODE 1 – PGARA SPEEDWAY

A stock-car racetrack with a heart

On this weekend the third generation of the Conn family – 14-year-old Corbin – gets behind the wheel of a stock car at the Prince George Automobile Racing Association track, a local landmark in Prince George B.C.

EPISODE 2 – MR. PG

The forestry mascot of Prince George

For more than six decades, various versions of Mr PG have represented Prince George’s identity as a northern British Columbia community founded on the logging industry. Now his future is at a crossroads.

EPISODE 3 – THE LITTLE PRINCE

A little train with a big past

The Little Prince looks like a toy, but he’s a serious locomotive that was originally brought to Prince George on a steamboat to build the Grand Trunk rail line from Edmonton, Alberta to Prince Rupert, B.C.

EPISODE 4 – THE SNYE

This was Canada’s busiest float-plane airport

For a century, float planes have used the Snye as a base for flights to the remote Far North of Canada. Now the pretty Stillwater is a recreational hub for residents of Fort McMurray.

EPISODE 5 – WATERWAYS

The place where steel met keel

For a time Waterways was the most northern point in the North American railway grid. It was a key transfer point from rail to keel, as people and goods travelled north and south on the Athabasca River system by tug and barge.

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