JERRY KREPAKEVICH
Jerry Krepakevich is an independent Production Consultant/Sound Designer-Editor with director, writer, editor,
sound editor, mixer and producer credits on over 140 films, including animation, documentary and drama during a
34 year career at the National Film Board of Canada. He has also returned to two of his first loves, photography and
sound production, having recently partnered with Downy Karvonen in Sonus Post Audio, a sound editing and
mixing studio in 2002. Since that time Krepakevich has completed work on audio post on more than 100 programs
in addition to work as a location sound recordist and a voice recordist for a number of other productions.
Krepakevich also served as a board member for the Edmonton International Film Festival, including almost 2 years
as the President of the Board. He also continues to do work for Dreamspeakers, the aboriginal film festival.
Formerly Regional Producer at the National Film Board of Canada's North West Centre in Edmonton, his recent
credits include four documentaries for the CBC Witness series: In My Own Time: Diary of a Cancer Patient (1995),
which won Gemini Awards for Best Science program and Best Director; The Sterilization of
Leilani Muir (1996), an examination of a dark period in Alberta history; My Healing Journey: Seven Years With
Cancer (1999), which also won two Geminis for Best Direction in a Documentary and Best Science, Technology,
Nature, Environment or Adventure Documentary and Honour of the Crown (2001). Recently, he also produced
Worst Case Scenario (2001), which was broadcast on the CBC's Nature of Things and Beaverman (2002) which was
broadcast on CBC Newsworld's Rough Cuts.
His recent films include Lost Songs (2001), providing a Native perspective on an era of Canadian medical history;
Donna's Story (2001), about a remarkable Aboriginal woman who overcame a life of addiction and prostitution to
help others on that path; Truckers; The Road well Travelled, which tells the story of several long haul
truckers(2001); Red Run, which documents the spectacular and dangerous fishing methods used by Aboriginal
bands netting salmon along the Fraser River Canyon and Totem; the return of the G'psgolox Pole which documents
the struggle to obtain the return of the totem pole taken from northern British Columbia to Stockholm, Sweden in
1928( Jerry was not only one of the producers on this film but also sound edited this film with his partner, Downy
Karvonen for release as a surround sound production).
Recent productions also include several award-winning films on war and the military which premiered on the CBC
Network: Protection Force (1995), a three-part series exploring the daily lives of Canada's peacekeepers;
Forgotten Warriors (1997), a one-hour television special dealing with the contributions of Canada's Aboriginal
veterans; and Lost Over Burma: Search for Closure (1997), a Remembrance Day special about six young Canadian
airmen who disappeared in the jungles of Burma in the Second World War. Other production highlights include
Cactus Swing (1995), a toe-tapping animated short that played in theatres across Canada, and the educational videos
Unsuitable Actions (1997), winner of the Amtec Award of Excellence and the Canadian Educational Association
Award, and Appropriate Actions (1998), Bronze Apple Award winner, National Educational Media Network. His
recent productions with Aboriginal filmmakers include: Silent Tears (1997), The Gift (1998) and The Little Trapper
(1999).
Originally from Saskatchewan, Krepakevich joined the NFB in 1967 after a polyvalent career that encompassed
theatre, farming, carpentry, photography and radio. At the Board, he directed such films as the multi-award winners
I've Never Walked the Steppes (1975) and Long Lance (1985), the story of an imposter. In 1974, he coordinated the
opening of the Prairie Studio and went on to serve as the NFB's first producer at the Winnipeg unit.
Over the years, Krepakevich's film's have won numerous international prizes. Film festivals around the world
honoured Elk Island: Managing a Sanctuary (1985), Shooting Stars (1987) (a Stein-MacLean Production in co-
production with the NFB, produced with Allan Stein), and Foster Child, which has garnered nine awards since its
release in 1987. In 1989, as part of the NFB's 50th Anniversary, Krepakevich produced Movie Showman, a tribute
to the early itinerant projectionist on the prairies. The Spirit Within (1989), an introduction to Native spirituality
programs in Western Canadian penal institutions, won a slate of prizes, including a Special Merit Award at the
American Indian Film and Video Competition and a Wilbur Award from the Religious Communicators Council.
Jerry Krepakevich has also co-produced such films as Land of the Ice Bear (1999), a nature documentary (with
Karvonen Films); Beating the Streets (1998), a documentary about street kids (with Lorna Thomas Productions);
and, most recently, Manon Rheaume: The Woman Behind the Mask (2000) (with Voice Pictures and Les
Productions Colin Neale), the extraordinary tale of the first and only woman ever to play hockey in the NHL. He
also served as NFB producer on such features as Anne Wheeler's Bye Bye Blues (1989 ), nominated for a dozen
Genie Awards and winner of three, and The Song Spinner (1997), which was nominated for four Daytime Emmy
Awards and three Cable Ace Awards.
FILMOGRAPHY - Jerry Krepakevich
2010: Crabbing; a short history - Picture and Sound Edit/Mix
For The Record: Bill Bourne - Sound Edit/Design/Mix-5.1
Control-Alt-Delete - Sound Edit/Mix
Ana Falastini - Sound Edit/Mix
Al Rashid Mosque - Dialogue Edit
Today's Food Processing Workforce - Sound Edit/Mix
Honest You Won't Get Hooked - Sound Edit/Mix
2009: Sylvain Voyer - Sound Edit/Mix
Nepal: In the Mountains Shadow - Sound Edit/Mix
Spirit of the Arctic - Sound Edit/Music Edit-5.1
Spirit of Maskipetun - Sound Edit/Mix
Inuit Odyssey - Sound Edit/Mix-5.1
2008: The Lie Detective, 13 x 1/2 hr. - Dialogue Edit
Power of Dreams - Sound Edit/Mix
Will the Real Alberta Please Stand-up - Dialogue Edit
The Kois - Sound Edit/Mix
Buffalo Spirit, 4 x 1/2 hour(Mandarin version) - Sound Edit/Mix
Apartment 9 - Sound Edit/Mix
Capturing Cooperman - Dialogue Edit
Catching My Breath - Sound Edit/Mix
Honour Thy Father - Sound Edit/Mix
Nature of Things: Gone Sideways - Sound and Dialogue Edit-5.1
2007: Homefront - Dialogue Edit
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Pix and Dialogue Edit
Sawatsky - Sound Edit and Mix
Totem: Return and Renewal - Sound Edit and Mix
Sure Shot Dombrowski - Sound Edit and Mix
Gone Sideways - Dialogue Edit
Quest for Buffalo Spirit, 4x1/2 hour - Sound Edit and Mix
Narration and location recordings
2006: Finns of Canada - Dialogue Edit
Between the Stones and the Ocean - Dialogue Edit
Joanna - Dialogue Edit
Narration and location recordings
2005: Alberta: Frontiers and Futures - Sound Edit and Mix
Spirit Doctors, Dialogue and Music Edit
Clay in Hand - Sound Edit and Mix
Wolves of Labrador - Dialogue Edit
Circumpolar Bears - Dialogue Edit
Booked TV, 13x1/2 hour - Dialogue Edit
First Response - Dialogue Edit
Narration and location recordings
2004: Journey of Hope, Parts 1&2- Sound Edit and Mix
Tillenius, 1 hour and 1/2 Hour, Dialogue Edit
Out of the West - Dialogue Edit
Rock N Fossil Road Show - Dialogue Edit
Narration and location recordings
2003: Shorebirds - Sound Edit and Mix
WildFiles.TV 13x1/2 hour- Dialogue Edit, Eps 1-3 Mix
Madd PSA Dec 03 - Sound Edit and Mix
Totem, Dialogue and sound edit
Totem, TV Version, Sound Edit and Mix
Narration recordings
2002: Pink Card Club - Dialogue Edit
2001: Honour of the Crowfoot - Producer
Worst Case Scenario - Producer
Red Run - Producer
Donna's Story - Producer
Truckers: A Road Well Traveled - Producer
2000: Manon Rheaume: Woman Behind the Mask - Producer
1999: My Healing Journey: Seven Years with Cancer - Producer
(Awards: Gemini(2), Best Documentary Social,Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton;)
Land of the Ice Bear - Co-Production - Producer
(Awards: Best Science/Nature, Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton,)
On the Edge: The Nature of Risk - Co-Production - Producer
The Little Trapper - Producer
(Awards: Columbus)
Footprints in the Delta - Producer
Lost Songs - Producer
1998: Mountain Splendour - Co-Production - NFB Producer
Appropriate Actions - Producer
(Awards: AMTEC)
Shepherd's Pie and Sushi - Co-Production - NFB Producer
Beating The Streets - Co-Production - NFB Producer
The Gift - Producer
Horses of Suffield - Producer
The Long Walk - Co-Production - Producer
1997: David with F.A.S. - Co-Production - NFB Producer
Forgotten Warriors - Producer
To a Different Beat - Co-Production - NFB Producer
Born Hutterite - Co-Production - NFB Producer
No turning Back - Producer
Pas Question de Retourner en Arriere(French adaptation of No Turning Back) - Producer
The Gift of the Grandfathers - Co-Production - NFB Producer
The Song Spinner - Co-Production - NFB Producer
Unsuitable Actions - Producer
Lost over Burma: Search for Closure - Producer
Strangers in the House - Co-Production - NFB Producer
Referendum - Take 2/Prise 2 - one of many directors
1996: The Sterilization of Leilani Muir - Producer
The Dreams of the Night Cleaners - Co-Production - NFB Producer
Half a World Apart...and a Lifetime Away - Co-Production - NFB Producer
The Road Taken - Co-Production - NFB Producer
1995: Cactus Swing - Co-Production - Producer
In My Own Time
Diary of a Cancer Patient - Producer/Sound Recordist
Protection Force (Series) - Producer
In God's Command
The Price of Duty
Caught in the Crossfire
The Padre(short version of In God's Command) - Producer
Silent Tears - Co-Production - NFB Producer
1994: The Great Northern Forest - Co-Production - NFB Producer
A Kid's View of Canada - Co-Production - NFB Producer
Closely Watched Freedom - Co-Production - NFB Producer
1993: Just Kids - Producer
(Participant, Montreal World Film Festival)
1992: Coppermine - Sound Recordist, Producer
1992: Northern Lights - Co-production - NFB Producer - also Sound Recordist
(Awards: Birmingham International Educational Film Festival; The 42nd International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Oakland, California[Oakland]; 35th American Film and Video Festival)
Prairie Grasslands - Co-production - NFB Producer
(Awards: 6 Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards including Best of Festival)
Life on the Edge - Co-production - NFB Producer
1991: Moccasin Flats - Co-production - NFB Producer
Learning With Love - Co-production - NFB Producer
(Award: Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards)
Meeting Ground - Co-production - NFB Producer
1990: The Spirit Within - Producer
(Awards: Wilbur Awards Competition; American Indian Film and Video Competition; Oakland; American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco )
1989: Bye Bye Blues - Co-Production - NFB Producer
(Awards: Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards; Genies)
Primo Baby - Co-Production - NFB Producer
(Award: Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards)
1989: Movie Showman - Producer
1987: Foster Child - Producer
(Awards: Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards; Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton; American Film Festival, New York; American Indian Film Festival; Banff Television Festival; Gemini; Oakland)
Shooting Stars - Co-production - NFB Producer
(Awards: Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards (5); Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton;)
1986: Youth of Fort MacPherson - Producer
1985: Elk Island: Managing a Sanctuary - Producer
(Awards: Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton; Missoula Wildlife Festival; Third International Exhibition of Documentary Films, Sondrio, Italy)
Long Lance - Producer, Associate Director, Sound Recordist (Awards: Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards (6))
Vie et Mort de Sylvester Long(French Version)
1984: Alberta Bound - Producer
The Man From Petrocan - Producer
1983: The Last Mooseskin Boat - Producer
(Award: Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards)
Great Days in the Rockies - Producer
(Award: Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards)
The Day We Beat The Russians - Producer
Short version
Beyond the Frontier - Producer
(Awards: Toulon; Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association awards)
Children of Alcohol - Producer(Post-Production
1982: The Day We Beat The Russians - Producer
The Top Few Inches - Producer, Director, Writer, Narrator
Short version
1981: Grain Elevator - Producer
The Boy Who Turned Off - Producer
(Award: American Film Festival, New York;)
L'Impossible Oubli - Producer and Sound Editor
(Award: Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton;)
Pamiat: Memory of Ancestors - Producer and Sound Editor
Capital - Producer
(Awards: Amtec; Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton;)
1980: Loved, Honoured and Bruised - Producer
(Award: Cork International Film Festival)
Getting Started - Producer
(Awards: Zagreb Animation Festival; Cracow International Film Festival; Bijou, Toronto; Espinho Animation Festival; Tampare Short Film Festival)
Rice Harvest - Producer
Nanoose: An Indian Tradition Passed On - Producer
Ukrainian Versions - Producer
Customs - Declaration
Customs - Quarantine
Customs - Registration
1979: Tudor King - Producer
John Law and the Mississippi Bubble - Producer
(Award: Tampare Short Film Festival)
The Top Few Inches - Producer, Writer, Director, Cameraman
Prairie Films Clip - NFB Version - Producer, Supervising Editor
Chasing the Eclipse - Producer
(Award: Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton;)
Conspiracy of Silence - Production Co-ordinator
1978: Give'M A Half Turn - Producer
A House on the Prairie - Producer
Blowhard - Producer, Editor/Sound Editor
(Awards: Short Film and Video Festival, Yorkton; Rio de Janiro International Film Festival)
Petroleum's Progress - Producer
(Award: American Film Festival)
1977: Facts of Life (Pinball Spot) - Producer, Supervising Editor
The MacIntyre Block - Producer
"Curling" Telespot - Producer
Oh Sure - Producer
1976: Wings of Time - Producer
(Award: Ohio State Educational Film Festival)
Ukrainian Versions: Producer-Editor
My Financial Career
Gone Curling
The Changing Wheat Belt
1975: I've Never Walked the Steppes - Writer, Director, Editor, Narrator
Ukrainian Versions: Producer-Editor
Death of a Legend
Kenojuak
World in a Marsh
The Sea
Filmstrip: Dauphin Festival - Co-Director, Editor
1973: Nasha - Writer, Director (Project not completed)
1972: Light to Starboard - Writer, Director, Editor
1971: A City Is - Multi-Image Designer
1970: Nell and Fred - Advisor/Editor
(Awards: American Film Festival)
1969: Agriculture Canada - Director, Writer
(Diploma: AGRARFILM, Berlin)
How Things Have Changed - Writer, Director, Editor
(Diploma: AGRARFILM, Berlin)
1968: Aqua Rondo - Assistant Editor
Andy - Editor
1968: Revision: World of One in Five - Assistant Editor
Occupation - Co-Director/Sound Recordist
Prologue - Assistant Director
Challenge of Change - Assistant Editor
Don't Let The Angels Fall - Assistant Director
1967: Indian Dialogue - Assistant Editor
Pow Wow at Duck Lake - Assistant Editor
Halifax Neighbourhood Project - Assistant Director and Assistant Editor
Encounter at Kwacha House - Assistant Director and Assistant Editor
Pikangikum - Assistant Editor