Northland Films

American independent film production company

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Northland Films Inc. is an independent documentary film production company.[1] The Midwest-based crew has produced award-winning documentary films that have been featured in The New York Times,[2] The Guardian,[3] Los Angeles Times,[4] Variety,[5] The Hollywood Reporter[6] and on ESPN[7] and NBC Sports.

## History

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Northland Films was formed in 2005 by Tommy Haines, JT Haines and Andrew Sherburne.[8] Hockeyland, the company's most recent film, is a coming of age story set in the competitive hockey sphere of Minnesota's north country. Hailed as a "must-see...raw and brutally absorbing" by David Erhlich, Indiewire, Hockeyland premiered at DocNYC, screened in over 175 theaters nationwide by Greenwich Entertainment and was a 2022 Critics Choice "Best Sports Documentary" nominee.[9]Saving Brinton,[10] premiered at AFI Docs in 2017, aired nationwide on PBS through America ReFramed and was named one of “the Best Movies of 2018” by Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post.[11] Gold Fever[12] (2013), an examination of invasive mining in indigenous Guatemala community was awarded the 2014 International Federation for Human Rights Film Award.[13] Their debut documentary, Pond Hockey,[14] (2008) featuring Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby, Neal Broten and Patrick Kane, is a celebration of outdoor hockey and was an early look into the over-structured world of youth sports. The film was dubbed “the best hockey movie ever” by John Buccigross, ESPN and aired nationwide on the NHL Network. Their films have played at over 80 festivals in 43 countries, including Rotterdam International Film Festival,[15] Thessaloniki International Film Festival,[16] Edinburgh International Film Festival,[17] Jeonju, and BAFICI. They are now at work on The Workshop, a patient portrait of the prestigious and closely guarded Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

## Films

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* Hockeyland (2022) is a feature-length documentary about senior boys of rival towns as they face down uncertain futures as they skate for a last chance to etch their names into local lore and is a Critics' Choice Documentary Awards "Best Sports Documentary" nominee.
* Pond Hockey (2008) includes appearances by Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby, Neal Broten, John Buccigross and Patrick Kane and is considered one of Bleacher Report's "8 Must see hockey movies".[18]
* Forgotten Miracle (2009) is a feature-length documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of the USA's gold medal in ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics.
* Gold Fever (2013) is a documentary about the destructive and exploitative impacts of transnational mining.
* Husker Sand (2015) is a short documentary following LeRoy Sands as he competes for the National Corn Husking Championships.
* Saving Brinton (2018) is a feature-length documentary about Michael Zahs's efforts to save the film collection of Frank Brinton.

## References

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1. ^ "With Northland Films (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
2. ^ Morris, Wesley (May 17, 2018). "Review: In 'Saving Brinton,' an Inveterate Accumulator Finds Treasure". The New York Times. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
3. ^ Hutchinson, Pamela (June 22, 2018). "How did some of cinema's greatest films end up in an Iowa shed?". The Guardian. Retrieved April 23, 2019 - via www.theguardian.com.
4. ^ Turan, Kenneth (June 8, 2018). "Film exhibition advocates are the stars in affectionate documentary 'Saving Brinton'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
5. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (August 1, 2022). "High School Hockey Rivalry Documentary 'Hockeyland' Acquired by Greenwich Entertainment, First Trailer Released (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
6. ^ "'Saving Brinton': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. November 21, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
7. ^ "Burnside: Long before 1980's 'Miracle,' these men brought home gold". ESPN.com. February 8, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
8. ^ "Nonfiction storytellers in the northland". Northland Films. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
9. ^ "Nominations Unveiled For The Seventh Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Presented by National Geographic Documentary Films". Critics Choice Association. October 17, 2022.
10. ^ "Saving Brinton", IMDb, retrieved April 30, 2020
11. ^ Hornaday, Ann (December 5, 2018). "Best movies of 2018: 'Roma' is intimate, epic and the year's finest". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
12. ^ "Gold Fever", IMDb, retrieved April 30, 2020
13. ^ "Gold Fever | Northland Films". Northland Films. Retrieved April 29, 2020. "Winner Film Award, Brussels, Belgium, 2014"
14. ^ "Pond Hockey", IMDb, retrieved April 30, 2020
15. ^ "Saving Brinton". IFFR. December 22, 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
16. ^ "Saving Brinton", Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, retrieved April 29, 2020
17. ^ "Saving Brinton | Edinburgh International Film Festival". www.edfilmfest.org.uk. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
18. ^ Campbell, Andy. "Instant Classics: 8 Must-See Hockey Movies". Bleacher Report. Retrieved April 23, 2019.

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