Filmmaker Peter Raymont has produced or directed over 100 documentary films in a thirty-year career. His films have been honoured with many awards - including a Canadian Gemini and Genie - and have been broadcast around the world. Raymont's career began at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal where he worked as an editor, producer and director. In 1978 he moved to Toronto and created the independent production company, Investigative Productions, now White Pine Pictures.

Raymont's films have taken him to Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, Japan and throughout Europe and North America. Some of his best known productions include The World Is Watching, an investigation of the distortion of news reporting from Nicaragua during the Sandinista period; Magic In The Sky, which documented the impact of television on the village of Igloolik in the Canadian Arctic; and The New Ica Age: A Year In The Life of the NHL, a 6-hour inside look at the business of professional hockey.