A farewell to Cliff…
It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of Cliff Derksen. Cliff was the subject of our 2017 documentary Suspended and the Art of Forgiveness which examined forgiveness and the intersection of art and faith in the aftermath of tragedy. Our crew spent...
R31: Stay Tuned…
The winter of 2021/22 at R31 has been full of awards, screenings, some big project completions and even the start of a new series project. All of which has meant we've been extremely busy. To top it all off our website and logo are currently being updated. There's a...
A farewell to Vince
R31 is deeply saddened at news of the sudden passing of Vince Fontaine. In 2020 Vince and Andrew Wall co-directed Eagle & Hawk Take the Stage, a TV-half hour documentary for CBC. (Learn more and watch the film at CBC Gem.) When working with Vince we saw a kind and...
R31 goes into 2022
2021 It was a challenging but still successful year at Refuge 31. We're all just happy it's over! The year began with the delivery and airing of The Science Fiction Makers on Super Channel. The feature documentary, which examines three unique Science-Fiction writers,...
R31 busy with fall production, awards and screenings
It's been a very busy fall at R31 with production travel, post production, nominations and a series of recent and upcoming screenings. Firstly, our short film for CBC, Boom: The Keira Bond Story, was recently made an official selection at the Sport Film Festival of...
Moving into fall production and all the other things happening at R31
As restrictions change and start to ease in various locations, R31 finds itself busy with multiple new projects while to screen long our older ones that continue to still garner awards and accolades. We begin with The Satanic Panic and the Religious Battle for the...
R31 announces awards and documentary production start
While North America begins to see the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, or at least a return to some of the normality we enjoyed some fourteen months ago, R31 has much to celebrate. During the past few weeks, as festival and award competitions come back to life, we saw...
New Projects, Nominations and R31 on VIMEO ON DEMAND
It has been a busy start to the year so far... Following all Covid-19 protocols, R31 has begun production of two documentaries which are due for completion in the last part of 2021. The first project being Conform: The Mennonite Migration to Mexico. The TV-hour...
R31 moves forward into 2021 with production and more…
With a busy and very strange 2020 now behind us, R31 is excited to announce moving forward with numerous projects as well as upcoming screenings... In association with The Plett Foundation, R31 will be embarking on a documentary examination of the Mennonite migration...
Science Fiction Makers on Superchannel and reviewed by Freep
R31 is excited to announce that part two of its Faith In Imagination series, The Science Fiction Makers, is now available for viewing on Superchannel/Fuse in Canada. The film, which examines the origins of the Christian Science-Fiction genre, began filming in March of...
Volendam wins Manitoba Day award
R31 is honoured to announce that its film Volendam: A Refugee Story has been awarded a Manitoba Day Award for outstanding film or theatre production by the Association for Manitoba Archives. The film examines the story of Mennonite refugees fleeing the Soviet Union...
R31 moves forward during pandemic with screenings, awards and a delivery
R31 is grateful to have been fairly busy over the past nine months. While the pandemic has complicated things, and made us wishing for a day when we can travel and hug all our friends and loved ones again, we've been busy and safe. Despite all the travel restrictions,...