Northland Films


Northland Films Inc. is an independent documentary film production company. The Midwest-based crew has produced award-winning documentary films that have been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and The Hollywood Reporter, and on ESPN and NBC Sports.

History

NORTHLAND FILMS was formed in 2005 by Tommy Haines, JT Haines and Andrew Sherburne. Saving Brinton, the company's most recent film, premiered at AFI Docs, aired nationwide on PBS through America ReFramed and was named one of “the Best Movies of 2018” by Ann Hornaday, Washington Post. Gold Fever, an examination of invasive mining in indigenous Guatemala community was awarded the 2013 International Federation for Human Rights Film Award. Their debut documentary, Pond Hockey, featuring Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby, Neal Broten and Patrick Kane, is a celebration of outdoor hockey and was an early look into the over-structured world of youth sports. The film was dubbed “the best hockey movie ever” by John Buccigross, ESPN and aired nationwide on the NHL Network. Their films have played at over 80 festivals in 43 countries, including Rotterdam International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Jeonju, and BAFICI. They are now at work on two features, Hockeyland, a coming of age doc on competitive high school hockey in Minnesota’s north country, and The Workshop, a patient portrait of the prestigious and closely guarded Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Films