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Bell Media commissions documentary of The Hip’s final tour

TORONTO – The Tragically Hip’s 2016 cross-Canada tour, which culminated in a charged and powerful concert in their hometown of Kingston, Ont., aired nationally by CBC, captured the heart of the country, so Bell Media is teaming up with Banger Films, in association with Shed Creative (a division of Universal Music Canada), and one of the country’s most celebrated documentary filmmaking teams, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, to take viewers on-stage, in the crowd and behind-the-scenes of this historic tour.Commissioned by Bell Media and coming to multiple Bell Media channels and platforms in 2017, Man Machine Poem (working title)...