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- Kensington Communications is a Toronto-based production company that specializes in documentary films and documentary/factual television series. Founded in 1980 by president Robert Lang, Kensington Communications Inc. has produced over 250 productions from documentary series and films to performing arts and children's specials. Since 1998, Kensington has also been involved in multi-platform interactive projects for the web and mobile devices. The company's recent productions include two one-hour science documentaries: Why We Dance, a bold exploration of dance as an emergent phenomenon in evolution and Nature's Cleanup Crew, about the busy urban scavengers who clean up the mountains of waste humans leave behind, both for CBC's The Nature of Things and Arte; The Shadow of Gold for TVO, Arte France and SVT, co-produced with Films å Çinq and CAPA in Paris, a feature documentary world-wide examination of the gold industry from raw material to market; The Equalizer and Champions vs. Legends, two one-hour international co-productions which examine improvements in high performance sports technologies for CBC Nature of Things, ZDF, Arte; Risk Factor, a one-hour POV documentary that demystifies personal and societal risk; Museum Secrets, a television series that explores museums across the globe; and Shameless Idealists, a five-part series that features interviews with changemakers and social activists like Richard Branson, Magic Johnson, and Nelly Furtado. Kensington has won a number of awards for these and other programs (see Awards section for details). Among Kensington's recent interactive projects are: the mobile app, Risk Navigator, which personalizes the users' risk reward balance; Scopify, a mobile app which allows visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum to get an augmented experience of some of the museum's artifacts; and Museum Secrets Interactive, with web videos, games and information. (en)
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