OUR STORY
The first documentary we ever made told a unique story. It was about a man who wanted to track down all the boys on a very special baseball team 50 years after he played with them. He didn’t know why he wanted to find them, only that he felt compelled to go on this journey. His son agreed to join him and document his quest. In the end, the story wasn’t about baseball, it was about fathers and sons -- about me and my Dad -- and the universal tale of damaged relationships and the quest to heal them.
In a very fundamental way this first Infield Fly documentary represents what we still try to do today – change people’s lives by telling extraordinary stories that reveal something unique and authentic about our world, and the lives of the people and creatures that live in it.
Dugald and Gillian are the co-founders of Infield Fly Productions. It's a true co-production as they're partners in business… and in life.
Their goal is to make documentaries that inspire, empower and create hope; stories that reveal something unique about our world, but also focus on one of the most important issues of our time – the destruction of our planet.
From regeneration to animal behaviour, from the science of climate change to the quest to save species, they aspire to produce impactful films that create a sense of wonder and respect for the world we live in.
O U R T E A M
DUGALD MAUDSLEY
Creative Director
Dugald has reported from the world’s war zones, worked as an on-air national correspondent and written, directed and produced award-winning documentaries. As creative director he leads the Infield Fly team as it creates unique science and natural history programs, series and feature documentaries.
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Recent projects include the award-winning science documentary Curb Your Carbon narrated by Ryan Reynolds, and the cutting-edge natural history series Secret World of Sound co-produced with the UK’s Humble Bee Films for the CBC, Netflix and Sky TV.
Dugald’s had the privilege of working with renowned broadcasters Dr. David Suzuki and Sir David Attenborough, the pleasure of interviewing celebrities like Sir Bob Geldof and Keith Richards, and the opportunity of producing interviews with world leaders, Afghan warlords and former members of Russia’s KGB.
Since co-founding Infield Fly Productions with his partner in business and life Gillian Main, the company has won three Canadian Screen Awards, garnered nine CSA nominations and won a host of international awards.
Dugald’s interest in real life, personal stories was fueled by a career traveling the globe to make documentaries on issues as varied as the HIV crisis in Africa, economic riots in Lebanon, and Saddam Hussein’s oppression of the Kurds.
He began work as a television journalist in New Zealand before joining the Australia ABC. He won that country’s highest journalism award with Kerry O’Brien and Tony Jones for a series on the Russian coup. He was also executive producer of a primetime series called Foreign Correspondent where he oversaw more than 120 hours of documentaries on subjects like the civil war in Afghanistan and the genocide in Rwanda.
Dugald’s interest in international issues led him to write and direct Crimes Against Nature, a four-part series on wildlife trafficking, and 21st Century Sex Slaves, a documentary about human trafficking.
His desire to tell stories about people convinced him to co-create Ancestors in the Attic with his father Don Maudsley. During four successful seasons the series helped solve family mysteries around the world from Canada’s high Arctic to West Africa, China and Belarus.
Dugald also helped create the limited series Myth or Science for The Nature of Things. He’s produced numerous documentaries for this long-running CBC series, from the hunt for the source of the bubonic plague to the mysterious creatures of the intertidal zone.
He is the winner of a Canadian Screenwriters Award and the recipient of numerous Canadian and international honours for his work.
GILLIAN MAIN
Producer/Business Affairs
Gillian brings a science degree and two decades of international sales, marketing and training experience in the healthcare industry to Infield Fly Productions. In her roles as a producer and head of business affairs she helps create award-winning science and natural history documentaries.
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Gillian joined Infield Fly Productions in 2011 where she helped bring the six-part series Myth or Science to air and then oversaw its distribution to more than 50 countries around the world. She was involved in the award-winning Curb Your Carbon narrated by Ryan Reynolds, Inside the Great Vaccine Race, and Jumbo: The Life of an Elephant Superstar, winner of two Canadian Screen Awards.
In her role as Head of Business Affairs she oversees the company’s financial and business interests, helps establish relationships with co-production partners, and manages a wide range of projects in development and production.
Gillian has a BSc in Nutrition and joined Infield Fly Productions after a successful career in the healthcare industry.
For two decades she traveled the world working with the American multinational Abbott Laboratories. Based in New Zealand, Australia and Chicago, Gillian was responsible for sales, marketing, training and business development in the Pacific, Asia, Africa Region rising to Area Commercial Director.
DIANE MARCOTTE
Production Manager
Diane began her career at CTV National News, Canada AM and W5. She applies her experience learned in those fast-paced and demanding environments to her role as Production Manager where she is responsible for bringing documentaries to completion.
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Since starting at Infield Fly Productions in 2012, Diane has worked on documentaries as varied as the 100th anniversary of the Grey Cup, the bubonic plague and the way animals use sound to survive. During that time, Infield Fly Productions has won three Canadian Screen Awards and been recognized for its work around the world.
Diane began her career working with some of the best broadcast journalists in Canada at CTV. She was also production manager on a number of Discovery Channel programs including MegaWorld and Daily Planet.
At Infield Fly Productions she’s been involved with numerous international co-productions, series, and one-off documentaries.