List of Popular Canadian Filmmakers
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Clement Virgo
Clement Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker. He cowrote and directed the sixpart miniseries adaptation of Lawrence Hills bestselling novel The Book of Negroes , starring Aunjanue Ellis, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lou Gossett Jr., Ben Chaplin, Jane Alexander and Lyriq Bent that aired to wide acclaim and a recordbreaking 1.7 million Canadian viewers in January 2015 on CBC in Canada. It went on to premiere in February 2015 in the US, drawing landmark ratings for BET Additional accolades for the miniseries inclu....
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Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout, CQ is a Canadian novelist, essayist, childrens writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler , Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post1960 Quebec intellectual life.....
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Gudrun Parker
Gudrun Bjerring Parker OC is an awardwinning Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer and a recipient of the Order of Canada. She worked on films with the National Film Board of Canada , during the Second World War and in the early 1950s. Parker wrote the script for The Stratford Adventure, which was nominated for an academy award, and directed part of Royal Journey, which won a BAFTA.She married fellow NFB filmmaker Morten Parker. They often worked as a team on films and in 1963 they established ....
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Grant Munro filmmaker
Grant Munro, OC April 25, 1923 is a Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor.....
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Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell , sometimes credited as Nick Campbell, is a Canadian actor and filmmaker, who won three Gemini Awards for acting. He is known for such films as Naked Lunch, Prozac Nation, New Waterford Girl and the television series Da Vincis Inquest.....
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Peter Rowe filmmaker
Peter Rowe is a Canadian filmmaker specializing in themes of exploration and adventure. His latest production is the 39 part television series Angry Planet, which airs on 10 television networks around the world. He is also freelance producer and heads Peter Rowe ProductionsPinewood Films Inc.....
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Jean Claude Lauzon
JeanClaude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker. Born to a humble family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lauzon worked a variety of odd jobs after dropping out of high school. He went on to study film at the Universit du Qubec Montral at the behest of Andre Petrowski, a member of the National Film Board of Canada. His two featurelength films, Un zoo la nuit, and Lolo, established him as one of the most important Canadian directors of his time.....
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Jack Chambers artist
John Jack Chambers was a Canadian artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, Chambers painting style shifted from surrealistinfluenced to photorealistinfluenced. He used the term Perceptual Realism and later perceptualism to describe his style. He began working with film in the 1960s, completing six by 1970. Stan Brakhage proclaimed Chambers The Hart of London as one of the greatest films ever made.....
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Peter Raymont
Peter Raymont is an awardwinning Canadian filmmaker and producer and the president of White Pine Pictures, an independent film, television and new media production company based in Toronto. Among his films are Shake Hands with the Devil The Journey of Romeo Dallaire , A Promise to the Dead The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman , The World Stopped Watching and The World Is Watching . The 2011 feature documentary West Wind The Vision of Tom Thomson and 2009s Genius Within The Inner Life of Glenn Go....
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James Beveridge
James Beveridge was a Canadian filmmaker, author and educator. Beveridge was a pioneering filmmaker at the fledgling National Film Board of Canada and rose to become Head of Production and Executive Producer at the NFB in postwar years.....
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George Dunning
George Garnett Dunning was a Canadianborn filmmaker and animator. He is best known for animating and directing the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine.....
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Aaron Long animator
Aaron Long is a Canadian animator and filmmaker. He is best known for his independent cartoons featuring the character Fester Fish, for which he performs the voice as well as animates. The series has won several awards and been screened at animation festivals around the world.....
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