NOMAD BUILDER:  On Assignment

Multi-camera Docu-Series/Philanthropy

Creator:  Nick Jardine

Host:  Nick Jardine

Producers:  Nicole Franklin and Nick Jardine

Zambia, Guatemala, indigenous parts of Canada, Australia… these are just a few of the destinations where host and nomad builder Nick Jardine plans to lend a helping hand to communities in need of restoration. By applying top design skills while leading a small construction crew across the globe and employing a few handy volunteers, Jardine and his ambitious adventurers will provide the ultimate off-the-map experience, highlighting the best of a location’s most valuable resources and revitalizing communities. 

During this series of one-off documentary films, popular television contractor Nick Jardine travels with a tool belt in the name of good. Jardine who was born in South Africa and raised in Australia was the head contractor in the first season of HGTV's Love It or List It Too (Vancouver) and the web expert for the popular CBC DocZone special Weather Gone Wild.  Jardine has worked all over the world and is a leading expert in capacity building and sustainability.  With a very lean construction crew Jardine will work on location in the aforementioned countries—including the city of Newark, NJ for the U.S. experience—and feature geo-specific design concepts and construction in order to enact a rapid response to communities need. Cameras under the direction of award-winning documentary filmmaker Nicole Franklin of EPIPHANY Inc. will capture these life-enhancing renovations and highlight the residents of these communities and the unique cultural experiences these countries have to offer.  Volunteers, who include residents and vacationing adventurers, will receive on-the-job skills training and become part of a global online movement to continue to spread the good news about participating locales.

The Benefits

Nomad Builder: On Assignment is a multi-episode documentary series featuring geo-specific design concepts in community capacity and sustainability as applied to indigenous communities in remote locations. An adventure in building awaits all who are engaged in seeing these communities transformed.

Benefits for communities:

·      Experienced builder Nick Jardine seamlessly integrates government and cultural codes in construction and design, and is sensitive to the needs of an indigenous build.

·      Jardine is a GVHBA, Renmark, BBB endorsed builder who has appeared on W-Network, HGTV, CBC to a wide audience and is now the host of a new brand of social impact programming in Nomad Builder: On Assignment

·      Professional design and concentrated quality build in an expedited time frame

·      Mentorship of interested First Nation and indigenous youth in construction and media production trades.

·      Exposure to a large audience through the partnership with award-winning production company EPIPHANY Inc., resulting in the featured communities receiving government support and economic prosperity via tourism.

The Support

Numerous community partners have come on board this series that aims to give a significant boost to construction projects in indigenous communities across the globe.  All assistance is welcome. U.S.-based corporations also receive a tax benefit through EPIPHANY Inc.'s nonprofit arm, An EPIPHANY Conversation, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. Click here for details.

As a team the crew behind Nomad Builder will heal communities—block by block, village by village, from community space to town center—around the world in record time.  Nomad Builder:  On Assignment spins the globe and identifies a small population in need. Within one episode television audiences will get an inside view of these destinations, some with areas of conflict that often grace the headlines.  Viewers will witness the attention to detail and problem-solving design skills of Jardine and his team, as well as engage with builders who sign up for the travel opportunity of a lifetime. During these hour-long programs human interaction unites cultures, while showcasing the main character being the country itself. Also a scene-stealer:  The now tangible potential in its people and resources.

Zambia, Guatemala, Canada, Australia and Newark, NJ have already extended offers of grant support, and tax credits in the case of Canada, toward this series of documentaries.  Nomad Builder:  On Assignment has also designed an equally involved web component. Episode Running Time:  54 Minutes.

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Host Nick Jardine leads a band of adventurers and builders around the globe to address community capacity needs in remote locations. Will you join him?

Nick Jardine, born in South Africa, immigrated as a child to Australia and grew into a successful businessman in the construction industry, all the while developing his skills as an avid rugby player. In pursuit of adventure he followed a dream and immigrated to Canada in 2006 to pursue rugby. Enjoying several years of playing and coaching rugby Nick honed in on his business skills once again, by using the only two tools he had brought to Canada with him, his hands. Nick founded Urban Handyman Inc. in 2009, a full-scale renovation/build company. In only three years Urban Handyman went from a start up business to TV success when Nick became the Head Contractor Season 1 on W-Network’s hit TV show Love It or List It Vancouver airing on HGTV in the USA as Love It or List It Too. In conjunction with operating his successful renovation business Nick is currently pursuing other adventures in construction as an expert appearing on the web app for Weather Gone Wild Home Audit for CBC. He has also recently been named the 2015 Ambassador of the World Indigenous Business Forum (WIBF). Nick has a passion for business, construction, travel, and currently resides in Vancouver.

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Nicole Franklin is an award-winning filmmaker, television director, stage manager, editor, educator, public speaker, web event host and contributing writer to The Good Men Project, the Toronto publication ByBlacks.com and NBCBLK. For fifteen years, her company EPIPHANY Inc. has been producing independent films for numerous cable networks including Showtime, BET, IFC, Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel, The Documentary Channel and now FUBU TV.  Her credits include The Double Dutch Divas!, Journeys In Black:  the Jamie Foxx Biography, Kids Around the World, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Black Enterprise Business Report, and CBS News. Her current educational films include Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne Brown and the 10-chapter series Little Brother, both titles distributed by Third World Newsreel. Little Brother airs on FUBU TV and is a recipient of the Foundation to Promote Open Society/Campaign for Black Male Achievement Award, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas.  Inspired by Gershwin & Bess…, Nicole has a screenplay in development titled BESS. EPIPHANY Inc. is the co-parent company of MIDNIGHT MEDIA CAPTURE, LLC, a web event channel for the independent storyteller. Nicole also hosts a web forum, An EPIPHANY Conversation, a global discussion among the inspiring people behind incredible stories.

Nicole’s affiliations include Directors Guild of America (DGA), Producers Guild of America (PGA East), IBEW, The Black Documentary Collective (BDC), DV Republic, New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) and founder of The PINK Media Club. Project reels may be viewed at YouTube.com/NicoleFilms. In-person speaking appearances are fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas.