Guy Maddin, CM OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or earlysoundera films. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canadas most wellknown and celebrated filmmakers.
Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on February 28, 1956, to Herdis Maddin and Charles Chas Maddin . Maddin has three older siblings Ross , Cameron , and Janet . Maddin attended Greenway Elementary until the sixth grade, then General Wolfe school grades seven through nine, then Daniel McIntyire Collegiate Institute grades ten through twelve. Maddins early life was marked by tragedy, with the death of his brother Cameron in 1963, and the death of his father in 1977. Maddin studied economics at the University of Winnipeg, graduating in 1977 without a plan to become a filmmaker. That same year, Maddin married Martha Jane Waugh Maddins daughter Jilian was born in 1978, and Maddin and Waugh divorced in 1979.
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