Rhombus Media


Rhombus Media is a film and television production company formed in 1978 at the York University Film Department by Barbara Willis Sweete and Niv Fichman, and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Larry Weinstein joined soon after. Rhombus Media developed a reputation for producing high-quality, lush art films focusing on music, theatre, and dance. The company has received many national and international awards for their work, including several Emmys: one for Le Dortoir in 1990, one for Canadian Brass: Home Movies in 1992, and one win in 1993 for an episode of the Channel 4 Series Concerto, featuring Aaron Copland. They have also won numerous Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture in 1993 for Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and for The Red Violin in 1999. The Red Violin also garnered an Oscar for best original score by John Corigliano in 2000. Rhombus also produced the award-winning television series Slings & Arrows and Sensitive Skin.

Films

Zivjeli! To Life! All That Bach The Magnificat Blue Snake Ravel World Drums The Top of His Head A Moving Picture Carnival of Shadows For the Whales The Radical Romantic: John Weinzweig When the Fire Burns: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg Tectonic Plates Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Concierto de Aranjuez Great Performances: September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill Satie and Suzanne Great Performances: Long Day's Journey into Night Solidarity Song: The Hanns Eisler Story A Tale of Tanglewood Hong Kong Symphony The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin The Red Violin Last Night QSW: The Rebel Zone Ravel's Brain The Lanza Sessions Tuscan Skies ~ Andrea Bocelli Perfect Pie Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen An Idea of Canada The Firebird The Saddest Music in the World Childstar Elizabeth Rex Clean Burnt Toast Five Days in September: The Rebirth of an Orchestra Beethoven's Hair Glenn Gould: Hereafter Snow Cake Mozartballs Silk The Young Romantic Passchendaele Blindness Inside Hana's Suitcase Gunless This Movie Is Broken Mulroney: The Opera Hobo with a Shotgun Antiviral Enemy Treading Water Our Man in Tehran Hyena Road Closet Monster Into the Forest Zoom Saigon Bodyguards The Devil's Horn The Man Who Invented Christmas Possessor Blackberry Seven Veils The Mother and the Bear

Short films

Music for Wilderness Lake Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra Inner Rhythm Eternal Earth Harry in Wonderland Noches on los jardines de Espana John Wyre: Drawing on Sound Nights in the Gardens of Spain Fanfares Legs Apart Toothpaste Burnt Toast: The Perfect Moment Burnt Toast: The Traffic Jam Burnt Toast: Choo-Choo and You Too Burnt Toast: The Argument The Devil's Delight The Lost Therapy Tapes Follow
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Television

Bach Cello Suite