Ferns Productions Inc. produces blue chip factual mini-series, feature films and television drama. Following the four-hour, award-winning Australia-Canada co-production Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery Ferns produced the three-hour Australia-Canada co-production Darwin’s Brave New World for CBC’s The Nature of Things. The series has received critical acclaim and five nominations for British Columbia’s coveted Leo Awards. The company has also produced a five-hour version for Arte in France and Germany. Ferns helped to finance The Shipsinkers for National Geographic Channels International as well as China’s Hollywood, a China-France co-production involving Beijing’s CultureLink Media.

Conquest & Control is the story of the secret charts that are re-writing history. (Series with Film Projects, Australia and Chiaro Productions, BC)

Mismatch explains why our world no longer fits our bodies. (Series with Occasional Films, New Zealand)

The Year That Rocked the World, is based on the best-selling book 1968 by Mark Kurlansky. (Feature-length documentary with Koster-Kovitz Productions, BC)

Distrikt –Life Behind the Nightlife is an episodic series based in the club scene of a large city. Written by Andrew Ferns.

Shakespeare in Venice is a four-part TV mini-series in the tradition of Shakespeare in Love. Screenplays by Alessandro Bettero and Gareth Jones. (With VIPMediacom, Italy and Scenario Films, UK)

The Dark Ones is a feature-length supernatural thriller set in the rain and fog-bound Pacific Northwest of 1779. Co-written by Andrew Ferns, it is now being financed by Ferns Productions as a Canada-UK co-production.

The Russian Affair is a TV Movie about Marshall Zhukov, the legendary commander of Soviet forces during the Second World War. Screenplay by Janice Cowan.

The World at Night explores the morality of torture and the right of the state to use extraordinary means to protect the security of its people. Screenplay by Willam Nicholson. (With Katherine Smalley Productions / Allied Capital Corporation)