Robert Lang, founder and president of Kensington Communications, is an internationally recognized, award-winning television producer and documentary director with more than 25 years of production under his belt. From science and social documentaries to performing arts programs and music specials, his work has covered the entire spectrum of production. Lang began his career as a director and cameraman for the National Film Board in Montreal. In 1980 he founded Kensington Communications in Toronto, a production company, which has since completed over 120 productions for broadcast in Canada, the U.S., Britain and around the world. Lang was the Executive Producer of the four-part television series The Sacred Balance, based on the best-selling book by renowned geneticist and environmentalist, Dr. David Suzuki. The series celebrates a new scientific worldview, a vision of nature in which we humans are intimately connected to all life processes on earth. Critically acclaimed when it was broadcast on CBC and PBS, The Sacred Balance was filmed on five continents in HDTV and employed state of the art 3D animation techniques. It won two awards at Yorkton and the Science and Society Prize at the 20th International Television Science Programme Festival in Paris. He was Co-creator, Executive Producer of 72 Hours: True Crime, a 20-part doc drama series on CBC, TLC and Canal D, which recounts the actual investigations of real crime mysteries. From 1997 through 2001, he was Co-creator and Producer of five seasons of the groundbreaking, hit series, Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science for The Learning Channel in the US and Discovery/CTV in Canada. He also directed the documentary elements for 20 of the first shows. Lang is now fully immersed in production for Season II of 72 Hours, and development on a children’s animated nature series called Flap!, based on the ideas of The Sacred Balance, Was Justice Denied? a limited series for CBC and Diamond Road, a 3-part documentary series for TVOntario. Over the past ten years, Lang produced and directed many documentary and performing arts programs, among them: Almost Home: a Sayisi Dene Journey, an intimate portrait of a Canadian aboriginal community in transition (CBC); River of Sand which explores the ancient culture, popular music and current struggles of the people of Mali, West Africa (TVOntario, Vision TV); Separate Lives, the Gemini-winning documentary which follows the lives of conjoined twins from Pakistan and the pioneering operation that gave them a chance at a new life (Discovery, BBC and the Learning Channel); The Biggest Little Ticket, a children’s music special which won several awards for best children’s program (CTV, YTV). Lang’s credits also include producing and directing for a number of high profile television series: the environment series Earth Journal with Richard Leakey for NBC TV in the U.S.; Britain's Granada series Odyssey; the popular BBC science series Living Proof; and The Nature of Things with David Suzuki for CBC TV. Among his over fifty international awards are Gemini’s, a Genie and recognition from festivals in Berlin, Parma, Paris, Birmingham, Columbus, New York and Banff. Robert Lang is one of the founders and a past chairman of the CIFC, now called DOC, Canada’s voice of documentary film, and a member of several other industry associations. He is the recipient of numerous awards for work in international development and the mental health fields, including the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. He lives with his family on a farm north of Port Hope, Ontario.
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