Trailer

Series premieres
January 9, 2025
on APTN

Tantoo Cardinal

Meet the Host: Tantoo Cardinal

Water Worlds is narrated in English and Cree by internationally acclaimed actor, Tantoo Cardinal.

Tantoo Cardinal is an award-winning actress of Indigenous descent can be seen with Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s, Killers of the Flower Moon, the Cannes Film Festival hit is in theatres now with multiple wins and nominations in this Awards season.

A Canadian native, she has appeared in over 120 film and television projects over the course of her 50-year career. Multi Award winning performer, including the Earle Grey Award (a lifetime achievement award by the Canadian Screen Awards), is a Member of the Order of Canada and is a CBC/Playback Hall of Fame inductee and a recipient of the 2020 Governor Generals Artistic Achievement Lifetime Achievement Award – Broadcasting and Film (awarded in 2021). She has Honorary Doctorates from 5 Universities.

Meet the Team

Len Morrisette

Len Morrisette

Writer / Director / Executive Producer

Len Morrisette

Writer / Director / Executive Producer

Len is a proud Mistawasis (Saskatchewan) band member that grew up urban Indigenous, his dad is Cree, and his mother has European ancestry. In 2011 he founded C.I.A. Solutions, a majority Indigenous owned film and advertising company. Over the past 12 years Len and his team have filmed and produced over 200 commercials and films, as well as music videos and documentaries. Their latest documentary, Resilience: The Aseniwuche Winewak Story, screened at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. He is also a member of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and former President of the Alberta Native Friendship Centre Association.

Kerriann Cardinal

Kerriann Cardinal

Producer

Kerriann Cardinal

Producer

Kerriann Cardinal hails from Fort McMurray, Alberta and is Metis, on her mother’s side. She is producer and has worked in various roles including 1st AD, production manager and field producer. Her production company, Sweetgrass Stories Inc. is in development on a feature documentary film along with pre-development on a short documentary film.

Hilary Pryor

Hilary Pryor

Producer

Hilary Pryor

Producer

Over the last 35 years Hilary Pryor, has achieved an impressive reputation as a creative director, writer and producer of inspiring programming in documentary features and series, children’s series and drama. Her productions have won many awards including Geminis, Leos, Japan Prize and the prestigious Humanitas Prize. Recent credits include 7 seasons of the award-winning documentary series, Moosemeat and Marmalade, and the feature film, PERCY starring Christopher Walken.

Ryan Dalgleish

Ryan Dalgleish

Executive Producer / Director of Photography

Ryan Dalgleish

Executive Producer / Director of Photography

Ryan was born and raised in Grande Prairie, Alberta and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media from the University of Lethbridge. Ryan joined the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary when he became a partner in C.I.A Solutions Inc, producing, directing, editing, and co-creating. During the past three years Ryan and his team have had two of their film projects, Momentum: From Nothing to NASCAR and Lost publicly voted on and selected to win funding to be created for TELUS Storyhive.

Geoff Grognet

Geoff Grognet

Director of Photography Underwater

Geoff Grognet

Director of Photography Underwater

Geoff grew up in Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. He has always been fascinated by nature and the ocean. In 1992, he got certified as an Open Water Diver and has been shooting underwater video professionally since 2005.

Danny Mauro

Danny Mauro

Associate Producer / Camera Operator

Danny Mauro

Associate Producer / Camera Operator

Danny Mauro is the director, writer and cinematographer of four documentary and lifestyle series in the undersea genre: Sport Diver, Undersea Explorer, Undersea Adventures, and The Blue Realm. He developed and filmed over 125 programs about the marine environment. In 2003 Danny he began his production of his first High-Definition series The Blue Realm in 2003. The thirteen-part series began airing in 2004 on Discovery HD Theater, Discovery Canada and National Geographic International.

Production Credits

Narrator
Tantoo Cardinal
Writer & Director
Len Morrisette
Producers
Kerriann Cardinal
Hilary Pryor
Executive Producers
Len Morrisette
Ryan Dalgleish
Associate Producer
Danny Muro
Director of Photography
Ryan Dalgleish
Director of Photography Underwater
Geoff Grognet
Camera Operator
Danny Muro
Location Sound
Kaitlyn Redcrow
Production Coordinator
Calvin Stimson
Research
Len Morissette
Cory Kozmik
Fernando Lessa
Jaasaljuus Yakgujanaas
Drone
Geoff Grognet
Production Assistant Trainee
Jenna Poorman
Post Production Supervisor
Hilary Pryor
Technical Supervisor
Ryan Dalgleish
Editors
Claudia Medina
Richard Fulop
Alec MacNeill Richardson
Music Composer
Desiree Wilson
Wayne Lavallee
Audio Post Production
EarWorm Sound
Titles
The Sequence Group
Titles Artwork
Kelli Clifton
Website Design & Development
Denman Digital
Colourist
Mike Wavrecan
HD Mastering
Craven Studios
Cree Translation
Art Napoleon
Cree Voice Talent
Art Napoleon
Descriptive Video
TBC

Dive equipment supplied by:

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Produced in association with:

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With the participation of the Province of British Columbia

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And the Government of Canada – Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit

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With financial participation of the Indigenous Screen Office

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