Ted Remerowski, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, was born in Poland in 1948. After a rather circuitous passage through the Middle East and Europe, his family arrived in Canada in 1951. Growing up in

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, he graduated from

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's School of Architecture. In 1979, he produced a documentary on the underwater excavation of the HMS Sapphire in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland for the

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. His later works include contributing to ''

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'', a series of one-hour documentaries first aired on CBC Television in 1980 for which he won the

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for Best Television Program for that year. Earlier, he had won the

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as Best Editor for his work on

Donald Brittain Donald Code Brittain, (June 10, 1928 – July 21, 1989) was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada. Career ''Fields of Sacrifice'' (1964) is considered Brittain's first major film as director. His other notable ...

's ''

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''. He won a Gemini and a Gemeaux as producer for '' The Struggle for Democracy''. He won the Yorkton Short Film Festival award for his work on '' Frankensteer''. He has been nominated numerous times for the Canadian Gemini Awards, including Best Writer for ''God's Dominion'' and ''Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities'', Best Sports Documentary for ''Dying to Win'' and Best Television Series for ''Legendary Sin Cities'' for which he was also nominated at the Canadian Screenwriting Awards in the Documentary category. He opened his own production company called Tremer Productions in 2006. In 2008 his documentary ''Dubai: Miracle or Mirage?'' was nominated for another Canadian Screenwriting Award. His next documentary ''Google World'' which premiered on CBC's ''

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'' examined Google and its move into

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