Production is currently underway on The Politics of Power (working title), a documentary from White Pine Pictures that will follow Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne and her senior team as they prepare the 2015 provincial budget.

The documentary will aim to show the decision-making process leading up to the release of the budget. The Politics of Power will shoot throughout the next three months and is slated to bow on TVO this spring. In order to keep the documentary topical, the prodco is aiming to quickly turn around the project into a broadcast-ready product, said Peter Raymont, president of White Pine Pictures and producer on the film.

“We are going to start editing before we finished shooting, so it can be on the air very shortly after we finish,” Raymont said.

Following its debut on TVO, Raymont said the production team hopes and expects the film will have a long life in the educational community. The prodco aims to spread the word about the documentary to schools in the next few months, with the goal of including it into the curriculum for this coming fall.

“It has an immediate, newsy value in the spring, and then a long use in the educational context,” Raymont said of The Politics of Power. He noted that a previous political documentary he wrote and directed in 1978 about Ontario Premier William Davis (The Art of the Possible) was used in schools for years after it was released, and believes his latest project will also have long-term educational value.

The Politics of Power is directed by Roxana Spicer. The documentary is licensed by TVO and received additional financial support from federal and provincial tax credits.

– Pictured Left to right:  Roxana Spicer, Premiere Kathleen Wynne and Peter Raymont. Photo credit: White Pine Pictures