Company Profile

Established in 1992, White Wave Productions is a film and television production company. Owner Geneviève Appleton is a producer, director, editor, writer, and story editor. Her production credits with other companies include Gemini-Award-winning The Arrow, a mini-series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation starring Dan Aykroyd, and the feature film Such a Long Journey directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, and starring Roshan Seth. With producers Camelia Frieberg of Palpable Productions (The Sweet Hereafter, The Five Senses) and Sherrie Johnson of da da kamera pictures inc, Geneviève associate produced Wilby Wonderful, by writer-director Daniel MacIvor (Past Perfect), released by Mongrel Media in Canada and Film Movement in the US. Wilby Wonderful has been invited to screen at the 2004 Atlantic Film Festival (Opening Night Gala), Toronto International Film Festival, Filmfest Hamburg, and in competition for the Altadis New Directors' Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, among many others.

For White Wave Productions, Geneviève has written, produced, directed and edited several films, including the documentary A Garden's Family, for Vision TV, as well as a video documentary on East Timor on permanent installation in Lisbon, Portugal. Her half-hour drama, Vision, adapted from a short story by Ursula K. LeGuin, won second prize at TV Ontario's Telefest Awards. Her one-hour documentary Actor's Transformation, on the work of extraordinary acting teacher Deena Levy and her students premiered at the Female Eye Film Festival, and aired for several years on Bravo! Canada.  Recently her short dance film Calling the Minstrel was screened as part of the Cultural Olympiad at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and is an official selection of the Atlanta Film Festival, screening on Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 12:10 pm at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

Geneviève was commissioned to co-write the bible and pilot of a dramatic television series, Mind's Eye, for AXYZ Animation and series creator John Coldrick, and she has recently completed a feature film script, The Last Dreamplay, which is in development. She wrote the narration for two seasons of the travel series GAP: Great Adventure People, produced by Montreal's Productions Espaces Verts, and broadcast by CTV Travel and Travel UK, as well as the English version of a documentary on the ancient city of Ephesus for Meteksan Bilisim Grubu in Turkey, and the feature documentaries In the Land of the Moose directed and edited by Harold Arsenault and Danae Elon's Partly Private (which won Best NY Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival).

Also a French to English translator for international film and television projects, Geneviève's recent translation credits include Dr. Animal (documentary television series narration); Untamed North America (television series narration, 6 episodes and one feature); Animal Doctors (television series bible); Regeneration (one-off documentary narration); The Guardians of Rome (two-part docu-drama television series); Super Plants (television series narration, 3 episodes); and Genesis II - Recreating Nature (7-episode documentary television series).