Michael Hirsh

Michael Hirsh

Рождение : 1948-04-07, Brussels, Belgium

История

Michael Hirsh is a Canadian producer born in Brussels, Belgium to Polish parents. His parents met at a dance in Brussels after the Holocaust. His family relocated to Canada when he was three year old. He attended York University in Toronto, Ontario. In 1971, Hirsh co-founded the animation studio Nelvana. In 2000, Nelvana was purchased by Corus Entertainment. Hirsh held the position CEO of Nelvana until 2002. In 2003, he led a group which purchased the animation company Cinar Corporation, rebranding it Cookie Jar Entertainment. In 2012, DHX Media acquired Cookie Jar and appointed Hirsh as Executive Chairman and a board member. He stayed at the company until late 2015. In 2016, Hirsh launched a new animation-focused entertainment company, Wow! Unlimited Media.

Профиль

Michael Hirsh

Фильмы

Приключения Паддингтона
Executive Producer
Приехавший в Лондон из Дремучего Перу медвежонок стремится обрести в британской столице новый дом и стать настоящим английским джентльменом. В этом смелому и предприимчивому путешественнику решает помочь семейство Браунов, обнаружившее маленького скитальца на Паддингтонском вокзале.
Lost Heroes
Himself (Interviewed guest)
Lost Heroes is the story of Canada's forgotten comic book superheroes and their legendary creators. A ninety-minute journey to recover a forgotten part of Canada's pop culture and a national treasure few have ever heard about. This is the tale of a small country striving to create its own heroes, but finding itself constantly out muscled by better-funded and better-marketed superheroes from the media empire next door.
The Truth Wears Side-Burns
Executive Producer
A film by Joan of Arc.
Братья Санта Клаусы
Executive Producer
Это большой секрет на Северном полюсе — у Санты есть три сына! Чтобы стать настоящими Сантами, братья едут в Калифорнию в поисках смысла Рождества.
Мишка и его друзья
Executive Producer
Мишка вместе с отцом отправляется в путешествие по живописным Пирожковым Холмам. Там наш герой встречает нового друга - дикого медвежонка Яшку, живущего в лесу. Яшка хорошо знает лес, его опасности и тайны, с которыми он знакомит Мишку, учит его общатьсяс незнакомцами... А Мишка открывает Яшке безопасный мир домашнего медведя, полный уюта и тепла. Друзья прекрасно проводят время в играх и забавах и даже отправляются в космическое путешествие... В обществе Мишки Яшка забывает о том, что потерял своих родителей. Но ведь у него есть друзья, которые помогут ему их найти... Приглашаем на встречу с Мишкой и его друзьями!
Franklin's Magic Christmas
Executive Producer
Franklin and his family are off on a Christmas visit with Grandma and Grandpa at Faraway Farm. When a sudden ice storm hits and Grandpa takes a terrible tumble, Franklin and his baby sister Harriet begin a magical adventure as they journey home in search of help. With the aid of a mysterious flying creature and some very special new friends, the two manage to return with Doctor Bear and her family. Once back together, friends and family share an enchanted Christmas Ever and a memory they will hold forever of a magical Christmas night.
Donkey Kong Country: The Legend of the Crystal Coconut
Executive Producer
It's the wildest, hairiest, most fur-ocious Donkey Kong adventure yet, as the popular Nintendo™ character swings into his own 3-D animated full-length feature! Legend says whoever holds the Crystal Coconut will get any wish granted. Now everybody on the island of Kongo Bongo is going bananas trying to get the coconut, including ruthless crocodile King K. Rool and notorious pirate Captain Scurvy. But our hero D.K. has a few surprises up his fur-covered sleeve! Brilliant 3-D animation, original songs and coconutty characters make this "rumble in the jungle" a great family video.
Pippi Longstocking
Producer
Pippi is a little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father is sailing the seas. With Pippi we meet her horse, her monkey and her two friends Tommy and Anika. Together they go on many journeys through the neighborhood.
Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods
Producer
Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away from the Ewok village to join the traveling Jindas, the time his father Deej fell terrible ill and the story of Kneesa's long lost sister, Asha.
Star Wars: Ewoks - The Haunted Village
Producer
Morag the Tulga Witch seeks revenge on her old enemy Logray, shaman of the Ewoks, who holds the magic Sunstar while she possesses it's darker half, the Shadowstone.
Babar: The Movie
Story
Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious rhinoceroses that have come to raid it.
Babar: The Movie
Executive Producer
Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious rhinoceroses that have come to raid it.
Воровка
Producer
Единственная и неповторимая Вупи Голдберг в роли остроумной и изобретательной воровки Бернис Роденбарр! Пытаясь покончить со своим криминальным хобби, она решается «пойти на дело» в последний раз. Но там, где она, все идет убийственно неверно: в обчищенной квартире найден труп… Для того, чтобы раскрыть убийство, реабилитировать свое имя и одновременно избежать встречи с полицией и настоящим преступником, Бернис и ее чудаковатый друг — собачий парикмахер Карл — начинают собственное расследование…
Великий Хип
Producer
C-3PO и R2-D2 отправляются на планету Бииту, чтобы встретить своего нового хозяина, Манго Баобаба, но их корабль подвергся нападению, и они попали в плен. Бииту находится под властью назначенного Империей Великого Хипа, деспотичного дроида, порабощающего туземцев. А Манго Баобаб тем временем находится в тюремном заключении, чтобы быть переданным его заклятому врагу, адмиралу Скриду.
Заботливые медвежата
Producer
О веселых и добрых медвежатах, которые всегда придут на помощь.
The Adventures of the Get Along Gang
Producer
The Gang participates in the annual scavenger hunt to win their own ice cream flavor but the stakes are made even higher when Bingo makes a bet with Catchum that if he wins, he and Leland get the Gang's clubhouse.
The Making of Rock & Rule
Self
Documentary on the making of the cult classic Nelvana animated film, "Rock & Rule." Featuring interviews with Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Iggy Pop, Maurice White, and Director Clive Smith.
Intergalactic Thanksgiving
Producer
With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday.
Intergalactic Thanksgiving
Story
With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday.
The Devil and Daniel Mouse
Producer
When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.
A Cosmic Christmas
Producer
Three aliens from an unknown planet, who bear a strong resemblance to the Biblical Magi, visit earth to know the true meaning of Christmas. Peter, a young boy, and Lucy, his goose, are the first to encounter them. Unable to find the true meaning of Christmas in town, Peter takes them to his family's house in the woods. While Peter's grandmother tells the aliens about her memories of Christmas, Marvin, one of the town's bullies, steals Lucy. In the chase to rescue Lucy, Marvin falls through the ice in a lake. Peter attempts to rescue him but falls into the lake as well. The townsfolk, who were out searching for the aliens, attempt to save the boys but their human chain isn't long enough to reach them. The three aliens, who had sworn not to interfere with events on earth, decide to help in order to learn the meaning of Christmas.
The Great Canadian Comic Books!
Director
Film accompanying the book of the same name by Nelvana Enterprises founders Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, with partner Clive Smith as designer and illustrator. It looks at the "Canadian Whites" series of comic books made during World War II, with some focus on Nelvana of the Northern Lights, the genre's first superheroine, and Johnny Canuck. It was accompanied by a two-year travelling tour of the art, the National Gallery of Canada's "Comic Art Traditions in Canada, 1941–45". This is Nelvana Enterprises' first film.