DocumentaryThe Last Elevator
Fleming, Saskatchewan202442 min
A wooden grain elevator gets one more winter, and the town around it decides what is worth keeping.
Saskatchewan + Manitoba
Flatlander Media SolutionsDocumentary & Video Production
- Documentary
- Corporate
- Community
- Short Film
Who we are
We are a team of passionate storytellers based in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, bringing together creativity, tech wizardry and just the right amount of caffeine.
Most of what we make happens outside. In a rink at five in the morning, on a section road in October, in a shop floor lunchroom during the twenty minutes somebody has free. The prairies do not perform for a camera, so we plan for that and shoot for what actually happens.
We work small on purpose. A room changes when six strangers walk into it, and the footage shows it. Two people, good sound, and enough time is almost always the better trade.
The result is a film that holds up on the third viewing, delivered captioned, organised and in the formats you actually need.
- Based in
- SK & MB
- Crew size
- Small
- Captions
- Standard
- Note rounds
- Two, quoted
Featured reel
Two minutes of what we have been shooting
A cut from recent documentary, community and commissioned work across Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Sound onCaptions available
What we do
Three ways we usually get involved
Most projects start in one of these three places, and plenty of them end up using all three.
- 01
Documentary Production
Long-form and short-form documentary, from first research call to final delivery. We work small, stay longer than the schedule strictly requires, and shoot what actually happens.
- Research and access
- Observational shooting
- Broadcast and festival delivery
- 02
Interviews & Story Editing
Interviews that people finish and mean. We prepare properly, record clean, and then do the harder half of the job: finding the spine buried in nine hours of transcript.
- Interview direction
- Transcription and paper edit
- Narrative structure
- 03
Video Post-Production
Editing, colour grading, sound and captions on footage you already own or footage we shot together. Files arrive organised, captioned and in the formats you actually need.
- Offline and fine cut
- Colour grading
- Captions and versioning
Selected work
Three films worth starting with
Ten projects in the full portfolio, from feature documentary to a seven-minute recruitment film.
Documentary
DocumentaryWhere the Water Goes
Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba202554 min
Everything upstream ends up here. A watershed film about the slowest kind of consequence.
CorporateSeed to Sale
Outlook, Saskatchewan20249 min
An irrigation co-operative explains itself to the next generation of growers, without a single stock shot.
Start a project
Tell us what you are trying to say
Send the outline of your project and we will come back with an honest answer about scope, schedule and cost. If it is not a fit, we will say so and point you somewhere that is.