Rhombus Media is a film and television production company formed in 1978 at the

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

Film Department by Barbara Willis Sweete and

Niv Fichman Niv Fichman (; born 1958) is an Israeli Canadian, Israeli-Canadian film producer, actor, and director. Some of the films he has produced include ''Passchendaele (film), Passchendaele'', ''Blindness (2008 film), Blindness'', ''Silk (2007 film), S ...

, and based in

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, Ontario, Canada.

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joined soon after. Rhombus Media developed a reputation for producing high-quality, lush art films focusing on music, theatre, and dance. The company has received many national and international awards for their work, including several

Emmys The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...

: one for ''Le Dortoir'' in 1990, one for ''Canadian Brass: Home Movies'' in 1992, and one win in 1993 for an episode of the Channel 4 Series ''Concerto'', featuring

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. They have also won numerous

Genie Awards The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978), known as the "Etrog Awards" for sculpt ...

, including Best Motion Picture in 1993 for ''

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould ''Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould'' is a 1993 Canadian biographical anthology film about the pianist Glenn Gould, played by Colm Feore. It was directed by François Girard, with a screenplay by Girard and Don McKellar. The film is present ...

'' and for ''

The Red Violin ''The Red Violin'' () is a 1998 anthology Drama (film and television), drama film directed by François Girard and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi and Sylvia Chang. It spans four centuries and five countries telling the story of a myster ...

'' in 1999. ''The Red Violin'' also garnered an Oscar for best original score by

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in 2000. Rhombus also produced the award-winning television series ''

Slings & Arrows ''Slings & Arrows'' is a Canadian television series set at the fictional New Burbage Festival, a Shakespearean festival similar to the real-world Stratford Festival. It stars Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette and Martha Burns. Rachel McAdams appeared ...

'' and ''

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''.

Films

* '' Zivjeli! To Life!'' (1982) * ''All That Bach'' (1985) * ''The Magnificat'' (1985) * ''Blue Snake'' (1986) * ''Ravel'' (1987) * ''World Drums'' (1987) * '' The Top of His Head'' (1989) * ''A Moving Picture'' (1989) * ''Carnival of Shadows'' (1989) * ''For the Whales'' (1989) * ''The Radical Romantic:

John Weinzweig John Jacob Weinzweig (March 11, 1913 – August 24, 2006) was a composer, teacher, and advocate of contemporary Canadian concert music. Born in Toronto, Weinzweig went to Harbord Collegiate Institute, then studied music at the University of Tor ...

'' (1990) * ''When the Fire Burns: The Life and Music of

Manuel de Falla Manuel de Falla y Matheu (, 23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20t ...

'' (1991) * ''My War Years:

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first Modernism (music), modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-centu ...

'' (1992) * ''Tectonic Plates'' (1992) * ''

'' (1993) * ''Concierto de Aranjuez'' (1993) * ''Great Performances:

September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill ''September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill'' is a music video of 94 minutes recorded in 1994 for Rhombus Media, ZDF (Germany), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC (Canada) and Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, RTP (Portugal). It was produced a ...

'' (1994) * ''Satie and Suzanne'' (1994) * ''

Great Performances ''Great Performances'' is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise plays, musicals, opera, ballet, concerts, as well as occasional documentaries. It is produced by the PBS member statio ...

Long Day's Journey into Night ''Long Day's Journey into Night'' is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939–1941 and first published posthumously in 1956. It is widely regarded as his magnum opus and one of the great American plays of the ...

'' (1995) * ''Solidarity Song: The

Hanns Eisler Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The ...

Story'' (1995) * ''A Tale of Tanglewood'' (1997) * ''Hong Kong Symphony'' (1997) * '' The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin'' (1997) * ''

'' (1998) * '' Last Night'' (1998) * ''QSW: The Rebel Zone'' (2001) * ''Ravel's Brain'' (2001) * ''The Lanza Sessions'' (2001) * ''Tuscan Skies ~

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'' (2001) * ''

Perfect Pie ''Perfect Pie'' is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing. The assistant director for the original production was Caroline Azar. The original cast starred Nanc ...

'' (2002) * '' Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen'' (2002) * ''An Idea of Canada'' (2003) * ''The Firebird'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2004) * ''Elizabeth Rex'' (2004) * '' Clean'' (2004) * ''Burnt Toast'' (2005) * ''Five Days in September: The Rebirth of an Orchestra'' (2005) * ''Beethoven's Hair'' (2005) * ''

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: Hereafter'' (2006) * ''

Snow Cake ''Snow Cake'' is a 2006 independent romantic comedy drama film directed by Marc Evans and starring Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire, and Callum Keith Rennie. It was released on 8 September 2006, in the United Kin ...

'' (2006) * ''Mozartballs'' (2006) * ''

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'' (2007) * ''The Young Romantic'' (2008) (documentary about pianist

Li Yundi Yundi Li ( zh, s=李云迪, t=李雲迪, p=Lǐ Yúndí; born 7 October 1982), also known simply as Yundi (stylized as YUNDI), is a Chinese classical concert pianist. Yundi is considered one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of Chopin and ...

) * '' Passchendaele'' (2008) * ''

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'' (2008) * ''

Inside Hana's Suitcase ''Inside Hana's Suitcase'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Larry Weinstein and released in 2009. Adapted in part from Karen Levine's book ''Hana's Suitcase'', who originally received Hana's Suitcase, the film centres on the story of ...

'' (2009) * ''

Gunless ''Gunless'' is a 2010 Canadian Western comedy film directed by William Phillips and released by Alliance Films. Plot In 1878, a hardened American gunfighter arrives in a small town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a place that doesn't ...

'' (2010) * ''

This Movie Is Broken ''This Movie Is Broken'' is a 2010 Canadian film directed by Bruce McDonald. A cross between a romantic comedy and a concert film, the film stars Greg Calderone as Bruno, a young man hoping to convince his longtime crush Caroline (Georgina Reilly) ...

'' (2010) * '' Mulroney: The Opera'' (2011) * ''

Hobo with a Shotgun ''Hobo with a Shotgun'' is a 2011 exploitation black comedy action film directed by Jason Eisener and written by John Davies. Based on Eisener's fictitious trailer of the same name from ''Grindhouse'' (2007), it is the second feature-length adap ...

'' (2011) * ''

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'' (2012) * ''

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'' (2013) * ''

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'' (2013) * ''

Our Man in Tehran ''Our Man in Tehran'' is a 2013 Canadian documentary film, profiling the role of Kenneth D. Taylor, Canada's ambassador to Iran in the 1970s, in helping six American hostages escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1980 by enginee ...

'' (2013) * ''

Hyena Road ''Hyena Road'' is a 2015 Canadian war drama film directed, written and produced by Paul Gross, starring Gross and Rossif Sutherland. It was shown in the Gala Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was sho ...

'' (2015) * '' Closet Monster'' (2015) * ''

Into the Forest ''Into the Forest'' is a 2015 Canadian apocalyptic drama film written and directed by Patricia Rozema, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Jean Hegland. It stars Elliot Page and Evan Rachel Wood as orphaned survivalist sisters in a fo ...

'' (2015) * ''Zoom'' (2015) * ''Saigon Bodyguards'' (2016) * ''The Devil's Horn'' (2016) * '' The Man Who Invented Christmas'' (2017) * '' Possessor'' (2020) * ''

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'' (2023) * '' Seven Veils'' (2023) * '' The Mother and the Bear'' (2024)

Short films

* ''Music for Wilderness Lake'' (1980) * '' Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra'' (1984) * ''Inner Rhythm'' (1986) * ''Eternal Earth'' (1987) * ''Harry in Wonderland'' (1990) * ''Noches on los jardines de Espana'' (1990) * ''

John Wyre John Harvey Wyre (17 May 1941 – 31 October 2006) was a U.S.-born Canadian percussionist, composer, and music educator. He worked as percussionist with a number of important orchestras in North America, notably serving for many years as the prin ...

: Drawing on Sound'' (1991) * ''Nights in the Gardens of Spain'' (1992) * ''Fanfares'' (1994) * ''Legs Apart'' (2000) * ''Toothpaste'' (2002) * ''Burnt Toast: The Perfect Moment'' (2004) * ''Burnt Toast: The Traffic Jam'' (2004) * ''Burnt Toast: Choo-Choo and You Too'' (2005) * ''Burnt Toast: The Argument'' (2005) * ''The Devil's Delight'' (2010) * ''The Lost Therapy Tapes'' (2011) * ''Follow'' (2012) * ''Method'' (2013)

Television

* ''Bach Cello Suite'' (aka ''

Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American Cello, cellist. Born to Chinese people, Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy there and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, ...

Inspired by Bach Inspired by Bach, a part of ''Sony Classical celebrates Bach'', presented the contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing the six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, in a series of six films, each showing a collaboration with ...

'' (1997) ** ''Bach Cello Suite #1: The Music Gallery'' ** ''Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of Carceri'' ** ''Bach Cello Suite #3: Falling Down Stairs'' ** ''Bach Cello Suite #4: Sarabande'' ** ''Bach Cello Suite #5: Struggle for Hope'' ** ''Bach Cello Suite #6: Six Gestures'' * ''Foreign Objects (TV series) , Foreign Objects'' (2000) * ''

'' (2003–2006) * '' Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays'' (2011) * ''

'' (2014–2015)

References

External links

*
Rhombus Media Ltd. fonds (F0118)
(film elements and production files) held at the

Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections Clara Thomas (née McCandless; May 22, 1919 – September 26, 2013) was a Canadian academic. A longtime professor of English at York University, she was one of the first academics to devote her work specifically to the study of Canadian literatur ...

York University Libraries York University Libraries (YUL) is the library system of York University in Toronto, Ontario. The four main libraries and one archives contain more than 2,500,000 volumes. History The first York library opened in 1961 at Glendon College and ...

, Toronto, Canada {{Authority control Companies based in Toronto Mass media companies established in 1978 Film production companies of Canada Television production companies of Canada 1978 establishments in Ontario