As the CEO of Galafilm, the internationally renowned, independent film and television production company he founded in 1990, Gelbart has produced commercially successful documentary programming, including the Primetime Emmy Award-winning series Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within, the Prix Europa winning The Origins of AIDS and Gemeaux Award-winning Big Sugar. Among his dozens of acclaimed and award-winning documentary one-offs, miniseries and series are The Valour and the Horror, The War of 1812, Korea: The Unfinished War, Chiefs, To Kill or to Cure, Marché Jean-Talon, Road Stories for the Flesh-Eating Future and École de Danse.

The company has produced or co-produced seven feature-length award-winning films: Lilies, The Hanging Garden, Two Thousand and None,  The Blue Butterfly (Lea Pool), La Rage de l’Ange, the Jutra Award-winning La Classe de Madame Lise and Steel Toes (starring Oscar nominated David Strathairn) .Galafilm has also had great success with children’s programming (Tale of Teeka, The Worst Witch, 15/Love, Fungus the Bogeyman) and adult dramas and MOWs (the 2006 Gemini Award winner for Best TV Movie Hunt for Justice: The Louise Arbour Story, Tripping the Wire, Agent of Influence, Bliss).

2007 will see the release of the documentaries In the Crossfire: Louise Arbour and the Battle for Human Rights and The Great War as well as the event television drama series St. Urbain’s Horseman, based on the classic Richler novel, and The Race to Mars and its companion series Mars Rising.

Arnie Gelbart is a member of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association, as well as a member of the APFTQ.

1 Comment from David P. Leonard

You were one of the few OHS graduates who went into showbiz and film production. I have been involved, from an educational standpoint, in film and television production, as the CEO and founder of a career college, Trebas Institute, teaching film/TV/audio production and post production, in Montreal and Toronto. I look forward to seeing you at the reunion on May 6.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - 05:22 PM