On Screen Manitoba

Lank/Beach Productions has produced international award winning documentaries, television commercials, corporate videos as well as series programming for over twenty years.  The company is part of a "Primary List" of suppliers for the Government of Canada having recently received a perfect score. We have produced over 50 recruiting videos for the Department of National Defence as well as work for Health Canada and other government departments. We have produced documentaries for the NFB, CBC, Global, CTV, Rogers/OMNI & Vision Television and have extesnive international experience. (Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Russia, Bali, Vietnam, East Timor, Europe and North America) Director/DOP Barry Lank csc has worked on numerous documentaries for CBC's Nature of Things, Doc Zone, the Passionate Eye & the NFB. In addition to our extensive camera, lighting, dolly & grip gear the company purchased the ARRI Alexa 35mm digital camera with zooms & prime lenses.

We have been recognized for our productions and received craft awards for our photography. Barry Lank csc was recently nominated by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers for "Best Cinematography in a Documentary" for his work on the Nature of Things. We have won Special Jury Awards as well as Gold Awards at the Houston International Film Festival as well as a World Medal at the New York Festival, two Silver Medals at the US International Film & Video Festival, a Clio Award of Excellence in New York and a Gold Quill at IABC New Orleans.

Recently completed a one hour documentary for Rogers/OMNI entitled  “The Whistling Lawyer”  & "The Day of Judgement" for Vision Television.  Produced fifty HD recruiting videos for the Dept. of National Defence. Other docs include the NFB co-production “Sabrina’s Law”, CBC’s “She’s Having our Baby”, NFB’s “Women on Patrol”, Global’s “Innocence Under Siege” and Merit Motion Pictures series “Recreating Eden” for HGTV & Vision.