It was also during this time while on a survival course he met his future wife, photographer Sue Jamison. In 1990 Stroud became a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures leading canoe excursions into the Northern Ontario wilds. During this time he also worked as garbage collector for the City of Toronto. Stroud worked for several years at the Toronto-based music video channel MuchMusic, and as a songwriter for the band New Regime before a Temagami canoe trip sparked a career change. He went on to complete the Music Industry Arts program at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. No release date has been announced for the National Geographic channel or on when it would be available on Disney+.Stroud was born in the Mimico neighbourhood of Toronto and graduated from Mimico High School. Producing for Lightbox is two-time Academy Award winner Simon Chinn (“Man on Wire,” “Searching for Sugar Man”) and Academy Award nominee Jonathan Chinn (“Black Sheep,” “LA 92”) the editor is Michael Harte (“Three Identical Strangers”). Torn is being directed by first-time feature filmmaker Max Lowe with Murphy as producer. “Their willingness to share their story with the world for the first time is sure to strike a chord with audiences.” “This film documents a painful and emotional journey for the Lowe-Anker family, and we are honored that they have entrusted us to help them bring it to the screen,” added producers Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn, co-founders of Lightbox.
“Max exploring his father’s past and reconciling with his family story could be the most challenging summit of his life.” “Sharing his story of love and loss through the medium of film takes vulnerability and courage,” said Murphy. “We are confident his family’s inspiring and emotionally complex story will move audiences around the world.” “Like National Geographic, exploration and storytelling are part of Max’s DNA,” said Carolyn Bernstein, EVP global scripted content & documentary films for National Geographic. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with National Geographic to tell my father’s story through the unflinchingly honest perspectives of the people closest to him.” “This film goes beyond my passion as a filmmaker and chronicles my family’s intensely personal journey toward understanding my father as a man, not a myth,” said Max Lowe. Using never-before-released archival footage of the ill-fated 1999 expedition, early footage of Alex and Anker as young climbers, personal home videos and strikingly candid interviews with the Lowe-Ankers, the film will follow Max in his quest to understand his iconic late father as he explores his relationships between his brothers, mother and adoptive father Conrad in the wake of his father’s death. Torn will deliver a profoundly intimate look at the Lowe-Anker family as Alex’s eldest son Max captures their emotionally and physically harrowing journey to Tibet’s 26,289-foot Shishapangma, where they will finally put Alex to rest. After the tragedy, Anker and Alex’s widow, Jennifer, fell in love and married, and Anker stepped in to help raise Alex’s three sons. Miraculously surviving the avalanche was Alex’s best friend and climbing partner, renowned mountaineer Conrad Anker. 5, 1999, Alex was tragically lost alongside cameraman and fellow climber David Bridges in a deadly avalanche on the slopes of the Tibetan mountain, Shishapangma. The film will turn the lens on Lowe’s family as the body of his father, legendary climber Alex Lowe, is uncovered 17 years after his death in an avalanche on the Himalayan peak, Mount Shishapangma.
Chris Murphy is also producing, and the director is photographer and National Geographic Explorer Max Lowe.
National Geographic has announced a new feature documentary, Torn (working title), in partnership with Lightbox, the studio co-founded by Academy Award- and Emmy-winning producer Simon Chinn and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning producer Jonathan Chinn.
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