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Robert Lang is a producer, director, writer. He began his career in Montreal working at the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary director and cameraman in the mid-1970s. In 1980, he moved to Toronto where he founded his own independent production company, Kensington Communications, to produce documentaries for television and non-theatrical markets. Since 1998, Lang has been involved in conceiving / producing interactive projects for the web and innovative applications and content for mobile platforms. ==Career== Robert Lang's work in television includes a number of documentary and factual series: ''Museum Secrets'', a 22 part television series that investigates the stories behind artifacts in great museums around the world; ''Shameless Idealists'', a five-part series that profiles a number of prominent change-makers and social activists; ''Diamond Road'', a three part series about the diamond industry; ''The Sacred Balance'', a four part miniseries based on the book by geneticist and environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki; ''72 Hours: True Crime'', a true crime factual series for CBC; and ''Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science'', a forensic crime series hosted by Graham Greene. In 2013, he co-created and was executive producer on a mobile app to enhance your museum experience at the Royal Ontario Museum called ScopifyROM. In 2015, Lang is producing ''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; he is coproducing a one-hour documentary for TVOntario and CPAC exploring young peoples’ relationship to voting; and he is producing another TV investigation for TVOntario on the subject of fear and risk assessment. He has also produced, directed and/or written several documentary films, including: ''Raw Opium'', which examines the failure of the War on Drugs through the lives of people involved in the international opium trade; ''Return to Nepal'', in which renowned musician Bruce Cockburn travels to the remote Humla district of Northwestern Nepal; ''Almost Home: a Sayisi Dene Journey'', an intimate portrait of a Canadian aboriginal community in transition; ''River of Sand'', which explores the ancient culture, popular music, and current struggles of the people of Mali, West Africa; ''Separate Lives'', the Gemini-winning documentary which follows the lives of conjoined twins from Pakistan and the pioneering operation that gave them a chance at a new life; ''The Biggest Little Ticket'', a children’s musical fantasy special which won several awards; and ''Mariposa: Under a Stormy Sky'', a documentary music special for CTV. Lang's work in film and television has garnered a number of national and international awards (see Awards section below for details). He's also been active in the production community as a founding member of the Documentary Organization of Canada, as a board member for The Real News since 2007, as a member of the TV Governance Committee of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 2012 and as the founder of the Hot Docs CrossCurrents Fund in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Lang (producer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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