Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Founded | 1980 in Kensington Market, by Robert Lang |
Executive Producer | Robert Lang |
Writer & Web Developer | Allen Booth |
Digital Marketing Manager | Danilo Ferron |
Kensington Communications is a Toronto-based production company that specializes in documentary films and documentary/factual television series. Founded in 1980 by president Robert Lang, Kensington Communications Inc. has produced over 200 productions from documentary series and films to performing arts and children's specials. Since 1998, Kensington has also been involved in multi-platform interactive projects for the web and mobile devices.
The company's productions include Scopify, a mobile app which allows visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum to get an interactive look at many of the museum's artifacts; Museum Secrets, a television series that explores museums across the globe, and Shameless Idealists, a five-part series produced in association with Free the Children, that features interviews with changemakers and social activists like Richard Branson, Magic Johnson, and Nelly Furtado. Since its foundation in 1980, Kensington has won a number of awards for these and other programs (see Awards section for details).
In 2015-16, Kensington Communications produced The Equalizer, the first of two one-hour documentaries in coproduction with Berlin Producers for broadcast on CBC’s The Nature of Things, SRC Explora and ZDF/Arte. The Equalizer broadcast premiere date was March 3, 2016 on CBC TV; it will be broadcast again leading up to the 2016 Olympics in Rio.