Neil Docherty, Spin Free’s President has won many awards. He has garnered an International Emmy for the film To Sell A War. He’s also been awarded four Geminis and a Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival. He has been twice a co-winner of the Gold Baton at the Dupont-Columbia Awards and won a Silver Nymph at Europe’s prestigious Monte Carlo Television Festival for a documentary on Mexico.

Neil Docherty is senior editor at the fifth estate, at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has also produced documentaries for the PBS/WGBH program, Frontline. One of his documentaries won the English Television Award at the CBC, a Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival, a Silver Baton at the Dupont-Columbia Awards, the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. The New York Times reporters, Lowell Bergman and David Barstow won the Pulitzer Prize for the three-part print series that accompanied the documentary.

Recently, Neil Docherty was given the Gordon Sinclair award for broadcast journalism. This award is presented to a journalist for an exceptional body of work. It is Canada’s most prestigious award in broadcast journalism.

Among his latest films, is Darfur: "On our Watch" for CBC Television's Documentary Unit and Frontline, which explored why the United Nations has proved incapable of stopping genocide and war crimes in Darfur. The film was honoured at the Overseas Press Club in Washington in 2007 and won a Gabriel in 2008. He also directed "India on the Move" one hour of a four-part series on India. It was an international co-production with CBC, ZDF, France 5 and S4C in Britain which Neil co-directed with Sarah Spinks.

Sarah Spinks is the Secretary-Treasurer of Spin Free Productions. Before coming to Spin Free, she was a producer/director at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, first for The Journal and latterly at The Fifth Estate. While at the CBC, her documentaries garnered numerous awards, among them, the Centre for Investigative Journalism's Best Investigative Report on Network Television and two Bronze Plaques from the Columbus International Film Festival. Sarah Spinks has produced and directed documentaries for WGBH's, Frontline. Making Babies, profiled on the Oprah Winfrey Show, was about state-of-the-art infertility treatments. Inside the Teenage Brain aired on CTV and on Frontline. She also directed one hour of a four-part series on China commissioned by a five-nation consortium. In 2006, her documentary “In Pursuit of Happiness” aired on CTV and was also mentioned by Oprah Winfrey.

She is presently working on a documentary about traffic called Gridlock for CTV and Discovery Canada. She is also the co-director (with Neil Docherty) of a one-hour documentary on India, part of a four-part series called “India Reborn” to be broadcast by CBC, ZDF, France 5 and S4C in Britain. Both will air in 2009.

Sarah Spinks is the author of Cardiac Arrest, The Story of Baby Deaths at Sick Children's Hospital.