One Millionth Tower, the first interactive web documentary built in HTML5 and WebGL.
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DIRECTOR
Katerina Cizek
SENIOR PRODUCER
Gerry Flahive
3D CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST
Mike Robbins (for Helios Design Labs)
heliozilla.com
ANIMATORS
Lillian Chan
Howie Shia
Kelly Sommerfeld
COMMUNITY MEDIA PROJECT LEAD AND CREATIVE ASSOCIATE
Heather Frise
POST PRODUCTION AND TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Branden Bratuhin
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Sarah Arruda
HIGHRISE RESIDENTS
Ob
Priti
Faith
Jamal
Irene
ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Graeme Stewart
Brendan Stewart
Alana E. Young
William Macivor
Lara Herald
Michael Mclelland
(for E.R.A. Architects)
era.on.ca
Jason Thorne Centre of Urban Growth and Renewal (CUG+R) and planningAlliance
cugr.ca
planningalliance.ca
COMMUNITY MEDIA PRODUCTION SUPPORT
Maria-Saroja Ponnambalam
Kristyna Balaban
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY
Jim Guthrie
© National Film Board of Canada (SOCAN) 2011
WITH A SONATA BY
Owen Pallett
“WORLD OF HIGHRISES” RESEARCH
Maria-Saroja Ponnambalam
Krystina Balaban
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jaime Hogge
Lillian Chan
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Julio Bittencourt
Angela Catlin
Brent Foster
Paramita Nath
Graeme Nicol
Lazaro Saavedra
David Schalliol
Graeme Stewart
LIVING PROOF VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY
Graeme Stewart
Sandy Kemsley
Brendan Martin
Brendan Stewart
EDITORS
Heather Frise
Branden Bratuhin
Katerina Cizek
WEB DESIGN
Helios Design Labs
Art Direction:
Alex Wittholz and Joanna Durkalec
Producer:
Mike Robbins
HTML/JS Coding:
Salpy Kelian and Daniel Sundy
3d Modelling:
Matt Brushett
SOUND DESIGN
Tim Muirhead
DANCERS
Donna
Fenanov
Lucienne
Faith
Jamal
DANCE VIDEOGRAPHER
Michael Hagedorn
SOUND RECORDIST
Igal Petal
DIALOGUE MIX
Chris Miller
ADDITIONAL MUSIC
“Five Offerings” composed by Owen Pallett, reproduced with permission from Open Wallett & For Great
Justice Records.
“Away to Me”, “And We got Older” and “The Ballad of the Space Babies”, “Habitat” composed by Jim Guthrie, reproduced with the permission of
Jim Guthrie.
COLLABORATIONS AND CONSULTANTS
Brett Gaylor, Ben Moscowitz, Robert Richter, and Mark Surman
(for Mozilla's Popcorn Project, Mozilla Foundation)
Charles J. Cliffe and Matthew Deir
(for Dragonfly Information Technology Inc.)
Tom George, Graham Losee and Cherie Oldenburg
(for Design Axiom)
Boaz Sender
(for Bocoup)
Dean Jansen
(for Universal Subtitles )
Russell Mitchell
(for ANC United Way, Microskills)
Jaime Robinson
(for United Way Toronto)
Kay Blair
(for Microskills)
Elise Hug and Eleanor McAteer
(for Tower Renewal, City of Toronto)
VISUAL RESEARCHER
Elizabeth Klinck
VISUAL ARCHIVES
Satellite images courtesy of Pictometry Canada Corp.
& Digital Globe Inc.
COPY EDIT
Gillian Burnett
SPECIAL THANKS
Stéphane Bousquet
Rosalyn Brown
Jiri Cizek
Daniel-Konrad Cooper
Noah Cowan
Loc Dao
Sean Dixon
Olivier Dyason
Arlene Gould
Jesse Friedman, Google
Benoit Jacob
Michael Fukushima
Christine Kleckner
Allan G. Ladouceur, Pictometry Canada Corp.
Christopher Logan
Renee MacCarthy
Rob McLaughlin
David Miller
Paramita Nath
David Oliver
Joël Pomerleau
Sylvie Prieur
Helen Spitzer
Sergiu Raul Suciu
Kate Vollum
OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES
HTML5
WebGL
Popcorn
Jquery
Three.js
Blender
WebM
Ogg Vorbis
TECHNICALCO-ORDINATOR
Marcus Matyas
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Mark Wilson
HIGHRISE PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR
Rachel Punwassie
CENTRE ADMINISTRATOR
Josiah Rothenberg
MARKETING MANAGER
Moira Keigher
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Silva Basmajian