As the name suggests, Dimestore is a boutique production company, based in Vancouver, BC.

 

Established in 2001 by Sheona McDonald, our focus is to make high quality programming for Canadian and International markets.

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Our first film, Lifers: Stories From Prison, was an hour long documentary about men serving life sentences in Canadian penitentiaries.  We then produced Capturing A Short Life, a captivating, poignant and award-winning film about families dealing with infant loss. In 2010, we completed When Dreams Take Flight for the documentary channel. It is a dynamic film that explores why humans are compelled to fly like birds.

 

We won two Canadian Screen Awards for this film, one for writing and one for Robert Swartz's editing.

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We followed up these successes with a feature length doc, Inside Her Sex, about female sexuality and shame, again for the documentary channel.

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Our feature length doc, Candice, about feminist icon Candida Royalle can be watched on Vimeo. Our a short experimental documentary, directed and co-written by Sheona McDonald, Into Light, produced by the National Film Board, is just starting its festival tour; and the film A short Essay on Men can be seen here.

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Dead Man's Switch a crypto mystery can be seen on D+ in the US and internationally and on CBC Gem in Canada.

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