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- 2002-2005 (Creation)
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Located in downtown Toronto, Cogent/Benger Productions was founded in 1998 and has produced a large variety of documentaries and specials. The focus on many of their documentaries are major social issues, thus creating a large appeal to their work. Robin Benger and Christopher Sumpton are the founding partners of the company. Benger had experience in Canadian journalism and documentary filmmaking, and Sumpton had worked at CBC editing and working on documentaries. Together they made In Security (Hot Docs 1998 nominee best political/social issue documentary) and Eastside Showdown (Gemini Awards 1999 nominee best social/political documentary) before finally teaming up to make Cogent/Benger Productions.
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One hour documentary. First aired in 2005. Produced by CBC TV, Nature of Things.
After almost reaching extinction due to over hunting in the fur trade, Sea Otters are coming back through reintroduction experiments. They have quickly become a new problem though, directly competing with humans for shellfish. This documentary looks at the line between ‘them’ and ‘us’, and the cost of human interference.