Alliance Atlantis bought Salter Street from the majority shareholders the following year. This potentially lucrative award, combined with SSF’s reputation as a content-provider, attracted interest from the powerful media corporation Alliance Atlantis. In 2000, a year after the Donovan brothers had taken the company public, Salter Street Films was awarded the broadcast licence for the Independent Film Channel by the CRTC. The documentary won both the Anniversary Prize at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Michael Donovan agreed, and arranged financing in Canada and Germany.
Salter Street also created the Stop motion children's show Poko which is still in production.īased on their reputation for political satire, American documentary film-maker Michael Moore approached Salter Street to produce his Bowling for Columbine project. These shows found homes on the CBC as well as other Canadian networks and cable channels.
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This Canadian-German co-production went on to become a lucrative money-maker through international sales and was one of the first shows to develop a cult following almost exclusively through the Internet.Ĭoncurrently, the Donovan brothers found success with the satirical This Hour Has 22 Minutes becoming a hit on CBC Television as well as other series such as CODCO, Emily of New Moon, Made in Canada, Blackfly, the children's series Pirates and the special Rick Mercer's Talking To Americans. The company's salvation turned out to be the science fiction series Lexx, which was a hit in Germany, Russia and Eastern Europe. Its first major feature film was Def-Con 4 (1985) which eventually became profitable, but other pictures such as George's Island (1989), Buried on Sunday (1992) and Paint Cans (1994), though critically acclaimed, were money-losers. The company began life with early problems. Salter Street Films was named after the street in Halifax where Paul and Michael had been living. Paul Donovan was trained as a director at the London Film School Michael graduated from Dalhousie University’s Law School and began as a producer of Paul’s film projects. The company was founded by brothers Paul and Michael Donovan in 1983.
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