Goldelox Productions is a boutique film, video and multi-media production company established in 2001 to fill the demand of quality and entertaining social justice documentaries in Canada. Today we develop and produce independent film, video, and multi-media products, screening on a variety of different platforms around the world.
The company was formed by award winning independent filmmaker Alison Duke. She has been producing and directing for over 10 years and serves as the creative director of the company. A renowned figure in her field, Alison brings an electric feel to her work, encompassing a variety of skills to each production including packaging and branding entertainment products. Her films have aired on a range of cable, private and public networks including: Superchannel, TVO, Sundance Channel, CBC Newsworld, Much Music, MuchMoreMusic, BET, Rogers Television, TVOne, Encore, Black Starz, Oxygen, LIFE Network and OMNI1. Some of her past clients include: Sony Playstation, Flow 93.5 and the Harry Jerome Awards.
Recognized for our intimate, creative, in-touch style that sets us apart, our work ranges from informative productions commissioned by various prominent organizations, to the more creative mainstream productions. Our clients include: Shadow Shows, Chimpanzee Productions, CIBC, Toronto Public Health, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Center, Across Boundaries Ethnocentric Center for Mental Health, Incwell Consulting, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Redwood Shelter for women and children fleeing abuse, BlackCAP and the ABDGN.
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Goldelox Productions provides production support small to medium sized productions after years of producing music videos for some of the biggest names in Canadian urban music ( i.e. Maestro, Nelly Furtado and Glen Lewis ) with music video production company, Raje Filmhouse. Alison co-owned Raje Filmhouse between 1996-1999 and during that time they received 19 Much Music Video Award nominations.
Producing and directing documentaries for television
In 2000, Alison made her directing debut with the groundbreaking seminol hip-hop documentary, Raisin’ Kane: a rapumentary. The film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Since then she has been a well sought after director. Some of her most notable works include, A Deathly Silence (2003) produced for CBC Witness and Newsworld and her short documentaries on Chum Television's Sex TV: the series such as a The Player’s Ball, Booty Nation and The Babies. Her work has appeared on various other television networks including MuchMusic, TVOne, Oxygen, Starz!, Encore, Life, Rogers, The Superchannel, BET, Vision TV, OMNI Television, Raptor TV, the ACC jumbotron and the Sundance Channel.
After Raisin' Kane: a rapumentary Alison established Goldelox Productions and started to co-produce documentaries with other artist, such the award winning film Sister’s In Cinema, by Yvonne Welbon, a film that traces the hidden history of African American women in American cinema featuring Julie Dash, Euychan Palsy, and Kasi Lemmons. In 2007 she co-produced, Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home (2007), a feature documentary by Andrew Nisker that set out to capture the eco-footprint of a Canadian Family. In 2008, GTRSAH premiered at Hotdocs and the United Nations Association Film Festival.
Community-based filmmaking
 During the past six years Alison has turned her eye to community based documentaries. Goldelox Productions has completed several notable commissions that bring to light a range of social issues. Hear the Story (2005) is a 28-minute documentary commissioned by the City of Toronto, Mayor’s office that looks at the marginalization of racialized youth in Toronto. Traditions and Transitions T(2007) is a 40-minute commission by the Women’s Intercultural Network, which highlights the activism of six extraordinaire senior immigrant women who became super activists; and The Woman I Have Become (2008), a 60-minute commissioned sponsored by several HIV/AIDs organizations in Ontario, Canada, which candidly highlights the courage and dignity of eight African and Caribbean women living with HIV. The film was endorsed by the Ministry of Health in Canada and has been translated into five African languages.
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