Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
film, television and theatre directors, in alphabetical order.
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Jennifer Abbott
Jennifer Abbott (born January 8, 1965) is a Sundance and Genie award-winning film director, writer, editor, producer and sound designer who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Abbott studie ...
Mark Achbar
Mark Achbar (born in Ottawa in 1955)
is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for '' The Corporation'' (2003) and '' Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media'' (1994).
Biography
Achbar is a graduate of Syracuse University's Fine Arts Fil ...
Patrick J. Adams
Patrick Johannes Adams (born August 27, 1981) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Mike Ross, a college dropout turned unlicensed lawyer in USA Network's series '' Suits''. For his role in ''Suits'', Adams was nominated for Outstanding ...
Alfons Adetuyi Alfons Adetuyi is a Canadian film and television director and producer."Greater Sudbury's cinematic family". '' Sudbury Star'', April 25, 2009. A partner in the film and television production firm Inner City Films with his brothers Tom, Amos and Rob ...
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Robert Adetuyi
Robert Adetuyi is a Canadian screenwriter and film director who works in Hollywood. Born in Sudbury, Ontario,"Interview with Robert Adetuyi", ''Sudbury Star'', January 24, 2007. Adetuyi is a graduate of York University, where he studied communicati ...
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Philip Akin
Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor.
Akin has had roles in major American films such as '' The Sum of All Fears'', ''S.W.A.T.'', and '' Get Rich or Die Tryin. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character ...
Clint Alberta
Clint Alberta (January 16, 1970 – February 25, 2002), also known as Clint Morrill, Clint Tourangeau, Clint Star, and Jules Karatechamp, was a Canadian filmmaker.
Life
He was born as Clint Morrill to a Métis father and a Euro-Canadian mother ...
Paul Almond
Paul Almond (April 26, 1931 – April 9, 2015) was a Canadian television and motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is most known for being the director of the first film in the '' Up'' series.
Life and career
Paul A ...
Janet Amos
Janet Amos (born 12 September 1944) is a Canadian theatre actress, director, educator and playwright.
The daughter of the actress Beth Amos, Janet has led theatre companies as the artistic director of the Blyth Festival (1979-1984 and 1994-1997) ...
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John Murray Anderson
John Murray Anderson (September 20, 1886 – January 30, 1954) was a Canadian theatre director and producer, songwriter, actor, screenwriter, dancer and lighting designer, who made his career in the United States, primarily in New York City and ...
Irene Angelico
Irene Lilienheim Angelico (born December 9, 1946) is a Canadian film director, producer and writer.
Early life
Angelico was born in 1946 in Munich. Her parents, survivors of the Vilna Ghetto, emigrated to Canada. She received a BA degree from S ...
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Catherine Annau
Catherine Annau is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and writer.
Annau's debut feature '' Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation'' won numerous awards including a Genie Award, and appeared at New York's Lincoln Center, the National Gallery ...
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Denys Arcand
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (; born June 25, 1941) is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film ''The Barbarian Invasions'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three f ...
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Louise Archambault
Louise Archambault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.Adam Nayman"Louise Archambault" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', August 20, 2014. She is best known for her films '' Familia'', which won the Claude Jutra Award in 2005, and '' Gabriel ...
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Sylvain Archambault Sylvain Archambault (born March 6, 1963) is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec. He is most noted as director of the feature film '' Piché: The Landing of a Man (Piché, entre ciel et terre)'', which was the winner of the Billet d' ...
Aviva Armour-Ostroff
Aviva Armour-Ostroff is a Canadian actress, writer and filmmaker. She is most noted as the star, co-writer and co-director of the 2021 film '' Lune'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 10th Canadian S ...
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Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (born May 9, 1978) is an Inuk filmmaker, known for her work on Inuit life and culture. She is the owner of Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, which produces Inuktitut films. She was awarded the Canadian ...
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Asinnajaq
Asinnajaq (born 1991), Isabella Rose Rowan-Weetaluktuk, is a Canadian Inuk visual artist, writer, filmmaker, and curator, from Inukjuak, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2017 film '' Three Thousand'', which received a Canadian Screen Award nom ...
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Olivier Asselin
Olivier Asselin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted for his films '' The Moving Statue (La Liberté d'une statue)'', which was the winner of the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des c ...
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Robin Aubert
Robin Aubert (born May 13, 1972) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Roger Avary
Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on ''Pulp Fiction'', for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Acade ...
Jennifer Baichwal
Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer and producer.
Biography
Baichwal was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Norma Bailey
Norma Bailey (born 1949, in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian film writer, producer, and director whose work is rooted in feminist and intersectional film theory. Bailey has directed several films, both in English and French and in various dif ...
David Bairstow
David Leslie Bairstow (1 September 1951 – 5 January 1998) was an English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire and England as a wicket-keeper. He also played football for his hometown club Bradford City. He is the father of England internation ...
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Liza Balkan
Liza Balkan is a Canadian actress, dancer, director, teacher and writer.
Career
She received Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance in '' Still the Night'' (Theatre Passe Muraille/ Tova Entertainment/Tapestry/National Tour). She is ...
Sofia Banzhaf
Sofia Banzhaf is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Newfoundland and Labrador. Banzhaf was born in Germany and spent part of her early life in the United States. She is most noted for her 2019 short film ''I Am in the World as Free and Slender ...
Paul Barbeau
Paul Barbeau is a Canadian film producer.
Director of independent films and producer of films like Romeo Eleven, Pieces of a Woman and Woman of the Hour.
Barbeau produced more than 700 music videos for international artists such as (Celine Di ...
Keith Barker
Keith Hubert Douglas Barker (born 21 October 1986) is an English first-class cricketer who plays for Hampshire. He is an all-rounder. He previously played professional football, where he was a striker. He came through the academy of Premier ...
Renny Bartlett
Renny Bartlett is a Canadian film and television director."Turning the camera on Russia's film pioneer: Sergei Eisenstein was a true revolutionary conflicted by Stalin's tyranny". ''Vancouver Sun'', November 16, 2001. Primarily a documentary filmm ...
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Jephté Bastien
Jephté Bastien is a Canadian film director. His debut film, ''Sortie 67'', won the Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time film director at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011.
Born in Haiti, Bastien is based in Montreal
Mont ...
Jean Beaudry
Jean Beaudry (born 1947 in Trois-Rivières) is a Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter from Quebec.Bill Brownstein, "Tenth film in Demers's Tales offers rock-solid family fare". ''Montreal Gazette'', July 7, 1990. He is most noted as co-d ...
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Renée Beaulieu
Renée Beaulieu is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film ''Adrien (Le Garagiste)'' was released in 2015.Guy Beaulne (theatre)
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Keith Behrman Keith Behrman (born April 1, 1963, in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian film and television director and writer,"Vancouver director wins Jutra Award for feature". ''Vancouver Sun'', January 15, 2003. who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2003 for ...
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Shane Belcourt
Shane Anthony Belcourt (born December 30, 1972) is a Métis writer, director, and cinematographer from Canada.Jennie Punter, "'I didn't have time to filter'". ''The Globe and Mail'', August 14, 2008. He is best known for his 2007 feature film '' ...
Attila Bertalan
Attila Bertalan is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is most noted for his 1990 film '' A Bullet in the Head'', which was selected as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991."Bullet in the Head chosen for ...
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Raoul Bhaneja
Raoul Bhaneja is an English-Canadian actor, musician, writer and producer.
Early life and studies
Bhaneja was born in Manchester. His father is an Indian Sindhi and mother is Irish. A graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada and O ...
Vincent Biron
Vincent Biron (born 1984 in Pierreville, Quebec) is a Canadian film director. He is most noted for his 2016 feature film debut ''Prank'', and his short film '' Little Flowers (Les Fleurs de l'âge)'', which won the Toronto International Film Festi ...
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Roshell Bissett
Roshell Bissett is a Canadian independent filmmaker who wrote and directed several short films, including the award-winning ''Cotton Candy'', and one feature-length film entitled ''Winter Lily''.
Career
She began making films in the early 1990 ...
Renée Blanchar Renée Blanchar (born May 19, 1964) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. She is most noted as a two-time winner of the award for Best Atlantic Documentary at the Atlantic International Film Festival, winning in 2018 for ''Shadow Men ...
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Jack Blum
Jack Blum is a Canadian writer, producer, director, story editor, actor, educator and communications consultant based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With his longtime partner Sharon Corder, he has written and produced more than fifty hours of tele ...
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Sofia Bohdanowicz
Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with Deragh Campbell and made her feature film directorial debut in 2016 with '' Never Eat Alone''. Her second feature film, '' Maison du Bonheur'', was a finalist for ...
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Nicolas Bolduc
Nicolas Bolduc (born 5 March 1973) is a Canadian cinematographer from Montreal, Quebec. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography two years in a row, in the 1st Canadian Screen Awards and 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, for ''War Witch' ...
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Peter Boretski
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
Clay Borris
Clay Borris (born March 31, 1950) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter."Cabbagetown kid makes good". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 18, 1981. He is most noted for his 1981 film '' Alligator Shoes'', for which he was a shortliste ...
Luc Bourdon
Joseph Luc Bourdon (February 16, 1987 – May 29, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League from 2006 until 2008. After overcoming childhood arthritis, he was s ...
François Bouvier
François Bouvier is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec."A paradoxical people put on quite the show". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 15, 1985.
His credits have included the films '' Jacques and November (Jacques et novembre)'', ''Un ...
André Brassard
André Brassard (28 August 1946 – 11 October 2022) was a Canadian stage director, filmmaker and actor, best known for staging the vast majority of Michel Tremblay's plays. He was the director of the French section of the National Arts Center ...
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Jennifer Brewin
Jennifer Brewin is a Canadian writer, director, and artistic director. She is known for co-creating ''The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls'' and her other work with Common Boots Theatre, formerly known as Theatre Columbus and the Caravan F ...
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 ...
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Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers
Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers is a Canadian film director and producer from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2019 short film '' Just Me and You (Juste moi et toi)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the ...
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Rex Bromfield
Rex Bromfield is a Canadians, Canadian film and television director and writer."Filmmakers get serious in fall releases". ''Vancouver Sun'', September 12, 1987. He is best known for his 1982 film ''Melanie (film), Melanie'', which garnered seven Ge ...
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Daniel Brooks
Daniel Brooks (born 23 June 1958) is a Canadian theatre director, actor and playwright. He is well known in the Toronto theatre scene for his innovative productions and script-writing collaborations.
Early life
Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontari ...
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Amnon Buchbinder
Amnon Buchbinder (June 17, 1958 - November 30, 2019) was an American-born Canadian screenwriter and film director,Patricia Robertson"Film stories feed the soul" ''Yukon News'', March 4, 2006. most noted for his feature films ''The Fishing Trip'' an ...
Jason Buxton
Jason Buxton is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed three short films, ''A Fresh Start'', ''The Garden'' and ''The Drawing'', before debuting his first full-length feature film, '' Blackbird'', in 2012.Jean-François Caissy (documentary)
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Terril Calder
Terril Calder is a Canadian artist and animator.Pat Mullen"Terril Calder Crafts a Duel of Sacred Teachings in Meneath" ''Point of View'', September 11, 2021. She is most noted for her short film '' Snip'', which was named to the Toronto Internation ...
Peg Campbell
Peg Campbell is a Canadian filmmaker. She is most noted for her short films '' It's a Party!'', which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Genie Awards, and '' In Search of the Last Good Man'', which won the same ...
Tamo Campos
Tamo Campos is a professional snowboarder and noted environmentalist from British Columbia, Canada.
He is the founder of the humanitarian group Beyond Boarding. In 2022, he directed the documentary film '' The Klabona Keepers'', about the Tahlt ...
Kate Cayley
Kate Cayley is a Canadian writer and theatre director. She was the artistic director of Stranger TheatreCatherine Chabot (film)
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Lyne Charlebois
Lyne Charlebois is a Canadian film and television director, most noted as the director and cowriter of the 2008 film ''Borderline (2008 film), Borderline''."Borderline director aims for provocative, not perverse; Charlebois's debut is dark portra ...
Shirley Cheechoo
Shirley Cheechoo ( cr, ᔒᓕᒋᒍ born 1952) is a Canadian Cree actress, writer, producer, director, and visual artist, best known for her solo-voice or monodrama play ''Path With No Moccasins'', as well as her work with De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig theat ...
Aisling Chin-Yee
Aisling Chin-Yee (born 1982) is a Canadian film director, writer, and producer, who works primarily in Montreal and Los Angeles. In addition to her work as a producer, Chin-Yee directed the films '' The Rest of Us'' (2019) and ''No Ordinary Man'' ...
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Mary-Colin Chisholm Mary-Colin Chisholm is a Canadian actress, playwright, and co-assistant director of the theatre companies LunaSea Theatre and Frankie Productions.
Career
In 2000, Chisholm directed the theatrical piece called ''Frankie'', starring Mary Ellen Maclea ...
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Monia Chokri
Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982) is a Canadian actress and film director.
Life and career
Born in Quebec City in 1982, she began her acting career after she completed her studies at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 2005. Her mother is ...
Cam Christiansen
Cam Christiansen is an award winning Canadian filmmaker, most noted for his 2017 feature documentary film ''Wall (2017 film), Wall''.Eric Volmers"Cam Christiansen, David Hare and the NFB break down barriers with animated 'essay' Wall" ''Calgary Her ...
Jerry Ciccoritti
Jerry Ciccoritti (born August 5, 1956) is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him one of the most successful directors in the country.
Biography
Born in To ...
Sean Cisterna
Sean Cisterna is a Canadian film director and producer from Orillia, Ontario, most noted for his 2019 film ''From the Vine''.Barry Hertz, "From the Vine is worth sipping, if only for Joe Pantoliano's drunk-on-life performance". ''The Globe and Mail ...
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Andrew Cividino
Andrew Cividino (born 1983) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter."Big buzz at Cannes for Canadian auteur's coming-of-age yarn". ''Montreal Gazette'', May 22, 2015. He is best known for his feature film directorial debut '' Sleeping Giant' ...
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Dane Clark
Dane Clark (born Bernard Zanville; February 26, 1912September 11, 1998) was an American character actor who was known for playing, as he labeled himself, "Joe Average."
Early life
Clark was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Jewish imm ...
Mike Clattenburg
Mike Clattenburg is a Canadian television and film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known as creator, executive producer, writer and director of the TV comedy series ''Trailer Park Boys'' (2001–2008), for his work with '' This ...
Daniel Cockburn
Daniel Ernest Cockburn is a Canadian performance artist, film director and video artist. Cockburn won the Jay Scott Prize in 2010 and the European Media Art Festival's principal award in 2011 for his debut feature film '' You Are Here.''
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Joy Coghill
Joy Dorothy Coghill-Thorne, CM, (May 13, 1926 – January 20, 2017) was a Canadian actress, director, and writer. Her obituary in ''The Vancouver Sun'' described her as having had "a seven-decade run at the top of the Vancouver theatre world."
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Randall Cole
Randall Cole is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his 2008 film '' Real Time'', for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay at the 29th Genie Awards in 2009.
A graduate of the Canadian Film Ce ...
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Layne Coleman
Layne Coleman is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director, most noted as a former artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille. Originally from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, he first became prominent as a cofounder and artistic director ...
Guy L. Coté
Guy L. Coté PhD (1925 - 1994) was a Canadian filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada. He was also founding president of the Canadian Federation of Film Societies, and co-founder of the Cinémathèque québécoise and the Montreal World ...
Brandon Cronenberg
Brandon Cronenberg (born January 10, 1980) is a Canadian director and screenwriter. He is David Cronenberg's son and Caitlin Cronenberg's brother. He is known for his science fiction horror films ''Antiviral'' (2012), '' Possessor'' (2020) and ' ...
Zale Dalen
Zale Dalen is a Canadian film and television director. He is known for the 1980 film ''The Hounds of Notre Dame'', for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981, the cult films '' Skip Tracer'' (1 ...
Deco Dawson
Deco Dawson is the professional name of Darryl Kinaschuk, a Ukrainian Canadian experimental filmmaker. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film, winning at the 2001 Toronto ...
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Luis De Filippis
Luis De Filippis is a Canadian- Italian film director and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Peter Knegt"This filmmaker is pushing beyond 'sensational' trans narratives with a love letter to their nonna" CBC Arts, January 16, 2018. She is ...
Miranda de Pencier
Miranda de Pencier (born August 20, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director, producer, and actress. She is most noted for her 2011 film '' Throat Song'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Shor ...
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Tracey Deer
Tracey Penelope ''Tekahentakwa'' Deer (born February 28, 1978, Mohawk nation, Mohawk) is a screenwriter, film director and newspaper publisher based in Kahnawake, Quebec. Deer has written and directed several award-winning documentaries for Rezol ...
Mathieu Denis
Mathieu Denis is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Quebec. He is best known for his films '' Corbo'', which was a Canadian Screen Award and Quebec Cinema Award nominee for Best Picture in 2016, and ''Those Who Make Revolution Halfwa ...
Sophie Deraspe
Sophie Deraspe (born October 27, 1973) is a Canadian director, scenarist, director of photography and producer. Prominent in new Quebec cinema, she is known for a 2015 documentary ''The Amina Profile'', an exploration of the Amina Abdallah Arraf a ...
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Bernard Devlin
Bernard Devlin, (December 15, 1824 – February 7, 1880) was an Irish-born lawyer, counsel to the Abraham Lincoln administration of the United States Government during the most northerly engagement of the United States Civil War, Quebec-b ...
Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan-Tadros (; born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and costume designer. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2 ...
Alexandre Dostie
Alexandre Dostie is a Canadian film director whose debut short film, ''Mutants (2016 film), Mutants'', was released in 2016. The film won the Toronto International Film Festival award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2016 Toronto International ...
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Mike Downie
Mike Downie is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. The older brother of late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, he is best known for his work with the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund.
The founder of the film production company Edgarland Films ...
Michael Dowse
Michael Dowse (born April 19, 1973) is a Canadian director.
Life and career
Born in London, Ontario, to Irish parents, he was trained as a film editor. His first full-length movie, '' FUBAR'' was shot on a digital camera with a tiny budget, but ...
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Rosvita Dransfeld
Rosvita Dransfeld, sometimes credited as Rosie Dransfeld, is a Canadians, Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2009 film ''Broke (2009 film), Broke'', which won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary ...
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles is a Canadian film director, who received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Director at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for her debut feature film '' A Colony (Une colonie)''.Danny Dunlop (film)
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Katrina Dunn
Katrina Dunn (born in British Columbia, Canada) is an actor, director, and producer. She has been the Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1997 to 2016.
Career
Training and work
Dunn trained in dan ...
George Dunning
George Garnett Dunning (November 17, 1920 – February 15, 1979) was a Canadian filmmaker and animator. He is known for animating and directing the 1968 film inspired by the Beatles, '' Yellow Submarine''.
Biography
Dunning was born in Toron ...
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Sophie Dupuis
Sophie Dupuis is a Quebec film director and screenwriter, from Val-d'Or who studied at Concordia University and the Université du Québec à Montréal
whose feature film debut '' Family First (Chien de garde)'' premiered in 2018 and was selected ...
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Alexis Durand-Brault
Alexis Durand-Brault is a Canadian cinematographer and film director. He is most noted for his 2017 film '' It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier)'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Di ...
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Jean-Philippe Duval
Jean-Philippe Duval (born 1968) is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec City, Quebec. He is most noted for his 1999 films '' Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi)'', for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director and Be ...
Gaëlle d'Ynglemare
Gaëlle d'Ynglemare, sometimes credited as Gaël d'Ynglemare, is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2004 short film ''Capacité 11 personnes'', which won the Genie Award for Canadian Screen Award for Be ...
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Chris Earle
Christopher Earle is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director."The disaster's the thing ; Chris Earle finds inspiration in human suffering". ''Toronto Star'', April 19, 2003.
Career
Earle is best known for his 1999 play ''Radio :30'', ...
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Gwaai Edenshaw
Gwaai Edenshaw is a Haida artist and filmmaker from Canada. Along with Helen Haig-Brown, he co-directed ''Edge of the Knife'' (), the first Haida language feature film.
Background
The son of noted Haida artist Guujaaw (Gary Edenshaw), he was r ...
Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan (; hy, Աթոմ Եղոյեան, translit=Atom Yeghoyan; born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. Egoyan ...
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Kris Elgstrand
Kris Elgstrand is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.Marsha Lederman, "Suburban life inspires filmmaker's taste for the strange". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 25, 2014. He is most noted for his 2014 film ''Songs She Wrote About People S ...
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Anne Émond
Anne Émond (born 1982) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec.
Early life and education
Born in 1982, Anne Émond has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate pr ...
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Bernard Émond
Bernard Émond (born 1951) is a Canadian director, screenwriter, novelist and essayist working in the French-language. He studied anthropology at university and lived for several years in the Canadian north where he worked for the Inuit Broadcast ...
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Danishka Esterhazy
Danishka Esterhazy (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She is best known for her thriller and horror movies, such as '' Black Field'' (2009), '' Level 16'' (2018), ''The Banana Splits Movie'' (2019), and the ...
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Jesse Ewles
Jesse Ewles (aka Jesse Yules; born December 13, 1981) is a Canadian independent filmmaker based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ewles has adopted the alternate spelling "Yules", for use on his feature film projects.
Ewles has directed music videos ...
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Philippe Falardeau
Philippe Falardeau (born February 1, 1968 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Early life
Falardeau was born and raised in Hull, Quebec. He later studied political science at the University of Ottawa, before travellin ...
Donna Feore
Donna Feore (née Starnes, born June 20, 1963) is a Canadian choreographer and theatre director, most noted for her work with the National Arts Centre and the Stratford Festival.
Early life
Donna Starnes was born in Dawson Creek, British Colu ...
Lee Filipovski
Lee Filipovski is a Serbian-Canadian film director and screenwriter. Filipovski is most noted for her 2016 short film '' Fluffy (Flafi)'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards. and ...
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Thom Fitzgerald
Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald (born July 8, 1968) is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer.
Life
Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years ol ...
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Ann Marie Fleming
Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. She was born in Okinawa, USCAR (nowadays Japan), in 1962 and is of Chinese, Ryukyuan and Australian descent. Her film '' Window Horses'' was released in 2016.
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Tori Foster
Tori Foster (born 1982) is a Canadian artist and filmmaker, known for her new media works. She is most noted for her documentary film '' 533 Statements'', which was cowinner with Denis Langlois' film '' Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma'' of t ...
Alexandre Franchi
Alexandre Franchi is a Canadian film director from Quebec. He is most noted for his 2009 film '' The Wild Hunt'', which won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and was named to the annual ...
Camelia Frieberg
Camelia Frieberg (born 1959) is a Canadians, Canadian film producer and director."Champion of Canadian film gets her salute: Sweet Hereafter producer Camelia Frieberg is Vancouver Women in Film and Video's woman of the year". ''Vancouver Sun'', Feb ...
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William Fruet
William Fruet (born January 1, 1933) is a Canadian film and television director, playwright and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with the drama ''Wedding in White'' (1972), based on a play he had also written. The film won Best Picture ...
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Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall is a Canadian filmmaker best known for her 2020 two-part short film '' Black Bodies'', which won the Changemaker Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Actio ...
Lorena Gale
Lorena Gale (May 9, 1958 – June 21, 2009) was a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s. She also authored two award-winning plays, ''Angélique'' and ''Je me so ...
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Pierre Gang
Pierre Gang is a Canadian film and television director, best known for his 1996 feature film '' Sous-sol''"From the basement to the top: Sous-Sol wins Quebec director international acclaim". ''Montreal Gazette'', June 1, 1996. and the television mi ...
Fran Gebhard
Fran Gebhard is a Canadian actress and theatre director.Adrian Chamberlain, "Midsummer Night's Dream goes punk; New York scene in late '70s inspires director Fran Gebhard". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', November 6, 2014. She is most noted for her p ...
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Serge Giguère
Serge Giguère (born 1946 in Arthabaska, Quebec) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Prix Jutra/Iris for Best Documentary Film, winning at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007 for '' Driven by Dreams (À fo ...
Maxime Giroux
Maxime Giroux (born 16 April 1976) is a film director from Quebec, Canada.
Giroux was born in Montreal, Quebec. He has directed several short films, videoclips and commercial videos. In 2006, his film '' The Days (Les Jours)'' won the prize for be ...
Grace Glowicki
Grace Glowicki is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta.Fish Griwkowsky"Edmonton-born actress wins at Sundance" '' Edmonton Journal'', February 2, 2016. She is most noted for directing and starring in the 2019 film '' Tito'', whic ...
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Olivier Godin Olivier Godin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.
He directed a number of short films before premiering his full-length directoral debut, ''Le Pays des âmes'', at the 2011 Festival du nouveau cinéma. He followed up in 2014 w ...
Noam Gonick
Noam Gonick, (born March 20, 1973) is a Canadians, Canadian filmmaker and artist.Ingrid Randoja"Gonzo Gonick" ''Now (newspaper), Now'', May 31, 2021. His films include ''Hey, Happy!'', ''Stryker (2004 film), Stryker'', ''Guy Maddin: Waiting for T ...
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Danis Goulet
Danis Goulet (born 1977) is a Cree-Métis film director and screenwriter from Canada,Chris Knight"Danis Goulet's film a first for New Zealand-Canada Indigenous co-operation" ''National Post'', June 26, 2020. whose debut feature film '' Night Raide ...
Ivan Grbovic
Ivan Grbovic (born 1979 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadians, Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter, most noted for his film ''Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres)''. The film was the top winner at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 20 ...
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Anais Granofsky
Anais Granofsky (born May 14, 1973) is a Canadian actress, screenwriter, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Lucy Fernandez in the '' Degrassi Junior High'' and ''Degrassi High'' series.
Early life
Granofsky was born in Spri ...
John Greyson
John Greyson (born March 13, 1960) is a Canadian director, writer, video artist, producer, and political activist, whose work frequently deals with queer characters and themes. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in ...
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Daniel Grou
Daniel Grou (born August 19, 1967), frequently credited as Podz, is a Canadian film and television director. His credits include the films '' 10½'', ''L'Affaire Dumont'', ''7 Days (Les 7 jours du Talion)'', '' Miraculum'', '' King Dave'' and '' ...
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Paul Gury
Paul Gury was the stage name of Loïc (Louis-Marie) Le Gouriadec (May 11, 1888 - November 13, 1974), a French-Canadian film and theatre actor, director and writer. He was most noted as the director of three significant films in the early Cinema of ...
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Brigitte Haentjens
Brigitte Haentjens, is a Canadian theatre director and president of her own company, Sybillines, which she founded in 1997.Jean St-Hilaire"Brigitte Haentjens reçoit le prestigieux prix Siminovitch" ''Le Soleil'', online posting in Cyberpresse'' ...
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Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners ''Million Dollar Baby'' (2004) and ...
Bretten Hannam
Bretten Hannam is a Canadian screenwriter and film director.Jordan Parker"Two-Spirit filmmaker puts queer representation first in films" ''Halifax Today'', June 12, 2018.
A Two-Spirit, non-binary Mi'kmaq person, Hannam was born and raised in Nova ...
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Matthew Hannam
Matthew Hannam (born September 8, 1981) is a Canadian film and television editor and director. He is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for editing, winning the award for Best Film Editing at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for his w ...
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Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema (born 1967) is a Canadian film editor and director. He is a three-time Genie Award nominee for Best Editing at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996 for ''Hard Core Logo'', at the 19th Genie Awards in 1998 for '' Last Night'' and at the ...
John Kent Harrison
John Kent Harrison is a Canadian film and television director and writer.
Early Life
Harrison was born in London, Ontario in 1947 and attended the private school Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario. After graduating in 1964, he attended Colu ...
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Mary Harron
Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, and former entertainment critic. She gained recognition for her role in writing and directing several independent films, including '' I Shot Andy Warhol'' (1996), ''Am ...
Gail Harvey Gail Harvey is a Canadian film and television director based in Toronto, Ontario. She is most noted as director of the television film '' No One Would Tell'', for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a TV Movie at the 8th Ca ...
Titus Heckel
Titus Heckel is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is most noted for his 2020 film '' Chained'', for which he received three Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nominations at the Vancouver Film Critics C ...
Kathleen Hepburn
Kathleen Hepburn is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She first attracted acclaim for her film ''Never Steady, Never Still'', which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017.
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David Hewlett
David Ian Hewlett (born 18 April 1968) is a British-born Canadian actor, writer, and director known for his role as Dr. Rodney McKay in the ''Stargate'' science-fiction franchise. He first gained fame for his roles as Grant Jansky in the Canad ...
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Federico Hidalgo
Federico Hidalgo is a filmmaker, film director and film professor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has directed five feature-length, fiction films to date: '' A Silent Love'' (2004), ''Imitation'' (2006), ''The Skeptic (L'Incrédule)'' (2012), ''Le ...
Tiffany Hsiung
Tiffany Hsiung is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2016 documentary film '' The Apology'', which won a Peabody Award in 2019, and her 2020 short documentary film ''Sing Me a Lullaby'', which won the Share Her Journey aw ...
Tanja Jacobs
Tanja Jacobs is a Belgian-born Canadian actress and theatre director. She originated the role of Constance Ledbelly in Anne-Marie MacDonald's '' Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).''
Early life
Jacobs was born in Belgium to German paren ...
Kathleen Jayme
Kathleen Jayme is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is most noted for the films '' Finding Big Country'' and ''The Grizzlie Truth'', which examine the history of the ill-fated Vancouver Grizzlies of the Nationa ...
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Katherine Jerkovic
Katherine Jerkovic is a Canadians, Canadian film director.
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison (born July 21, 1926) is a retired Canadian film and television director, producer, and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.
He has directed numerous feature films and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best ...
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Renuka Jeyapalan
Renuka Jeyapalan is a Tamils, Tamil Canadian film and television director. Her debut short film ''Big Girl (film), Big Girl'' won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2005 Toronto International Film Fest ...
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Brian D. Johnson
Brian D. Johnson is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker, best known as an entertainment reporter and film critic for ''Maclean's''."Return of the '70s: not very far out". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 19, 1994.
He first joined the magazine in 198 ...
Stephanie Joline
Stephanie Joline, sometimes credited as Stephanie Clattenburg, is a Canadian film and television director.
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Adam Garnet Jones
Adam Garnet Jones is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter."Young, native and gay, filmmaker champions inclusion for all". '' Edmonton Journal'', March 24, 2007.
Personal life
Of Cree and Métis ancestry, Jones grew up in Alberta and British C ...
Jillian Keiley
Jillian Keiley is a director from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, who was the founding artistic director of ''Artistic Fraud'' ''of Newfoundland''. Since August 2012, Keiley has been the artistic direc ...
Elza Kephart
Elza Kephart, is a Canadians, Canadian filmmaker, from Montreal, Quebec. She owns her own production company, Midnight Kingdom Films.
Career
Kephart's first feature film was ''Graveyard Alive, Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love'', which sh ...
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Sami Khan
Mansoor Aslam Khan Niazi, known professionally as Sami Khan, is a Pakistani actor and model who appears in films and television dramas. He started his career with film ''Salakhain'' and then moved to television.
Early life
He was born on July ...
Albert Kish
Albert Kish (14 May 1937 – 23 October 2015) was a Canadian documentarian/filmmaker.
Life and career
Kish was born in Albert Kiss in Eger, Hungary, the son of Olga Weisz, a clothing store manager, and Albert Kiss, a customs officer. He beca ...
Julien Knafo
Julien Knafo is a Canadian composer and film director from Quebec. He is most noted for the 2009 film ''Blind Spot (2009 film), Blind Spot (Lucidité passagère)'', for which he was a Jutra Award nominee for Prix Iris for Best Original Music, Best ...
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Larysa Kondracki
Larysa Kondracki is a Canadian producer, director and screenwriter. Her debut feature film, ''The Whistleblower'', was released in 2011 and received nominations for six Genies at the 32nd Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. ...
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Jules Arita Koostachin Jules Arita Koostachin is a Cree people, Cree writer and filmmaker from Canada, most noted for her 2022 film ''Broken Angel (2022 film), Broken Angel (MaaShwaKan MaNiTo)''.Gail Johnson"Whistler Film Festival: Jules Arita Koostachin draws on Cree cul ...
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Ted Kotcheff
William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director, writer and producer, known primarily for his work on British and American television productions such as '' Armchair Theatre'' and '' Law & Or ...
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Anthony Kramreither
Anthony Kramreither (August 7, 1926 – February 8, 1993) was an Austrian-Canadian film and television actor and producer."OBITUARY: Anthony Kramreither Toronto film producer". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 12, 1993. Primarily known as a pro ...
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Roman Kroitor
Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – September 17, 2012) was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as an early practitioner of ''cinéma vérité'', as co-founder of IMAX, and as creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic animation system. ...
Zacharias Kunuk
Zacharias Kunuk ( iu, ᓴᖅᑲᓕᐊᓯ ᑯᓄᒃ, born November 27, 1957) is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film '' Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner'', the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced entirely in Inu ...
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Julia Kwan
Julia Kwan is a Canadians, Canadian screenwriter, director, and occasional producer of her own short and feature films. She has brought a keen sense of the Chinese-Canadian cultural experience to her films. Several of the films were made in conjun ...
Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.
Life and career
LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario. He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as ...
Stéphane Lafleur
Stéphane Lafleur (born 1976)
is a French-Canadian film director, editor and musician.Ian Lagarde
Ian Lagarde is a Canadians, Canadian cinematographer and film director. He is most noted for his 2017 film ''All You Can Eat Buddha'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for ...
Stéphane Lapointe
Stéphane Lapointe (born February 20, 1971) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award at the 27th Genie Awards in 2006 for his debut film '' The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens ...
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Martin Laroche
Martin Laroche, born William Henry Silvester, (15 September 1814 – 10 November 1886) was an early English professional photographer who successfully challenged William Fox Talbot's patent on the calotype and effected a liberalisation in profes ...
Jean-Claude Lauzon
Jean-Claude Lauzon (September 29, 1953 – August 10, 1997) was a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. Born to a working class family in Montreal, Quebec, Lauzon dropped out of high school and worked various jobs before studying film at the Unive ...
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Simon Lavoie
Simon Lavoie (born May 15, 1979) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.
Walter Learning
Walter John Learning (November 16, 1938 – January 5, 2020) was a Canadian theatre director, actor, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick.
Biography
Walter Learning was born in 1938 in the small village of Quidi Vidi in the Dominion of Newfou ...
Francis Leclerc
Francis Leclerc (born 1971 in Quebec City) is a Canadians, Canadian film director, film and television director, screenwriter and film editor. He is the son of Félix Leclerc. Since 1995 he has worked in the Quebec film industry, directing music v ...
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John L'Ecuyer
John L'Ecuyer (born November 15, 1964) is a Canadian film and television director.
Biography
John L'Ecuyer's first feature, '' Curtis's Charm'' (1995), was an adaptation of a Jim Carroll story. The film received a Special Jury Citation as Best Can ...
Sherren Lee Sherren Lee is a Canadian film and television director based in Toronto, Ontario. She is most noted for her 2017 short film ''The Things You Think I'm Thinking''.Shawn Levy
Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian film director, film producer, actor, and founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. He has worked across genres and is perhaps best known as the director of the '' Night at the Museum'' film franchise an ...
Marquise Lepage
Marquise Lepage (born September 6, 1959 in Chénéville, Quebec), is a Canadian ( Québécoise) producer, screenwriter, and film and television director. She is best known for her 1987 feature '' Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville)'', ...
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Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director.
Early life
Lepage was raised in Quebec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with a rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair l ...
Chandler Levack
Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer and filmmaker. She is a two-time Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year, receiving nominations alongside Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux at the Juno Awards of 2015 for directing PUP's "Guilt Trip" music video, and at ...
Yonah Lewis
Yonah Lewis (born March 2, 1986) is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter, who collaborates on most of his work with Calvin Thomas (director), Calvin Thomas.James Adams"Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas: filmmakers" ''The Globe and Mai ...
Arthur Lipsett
Arthur Lipsett (May 13, 1936 – May 1, 1986) was a Canadian avant-garde director of short collage films.
Life and career
Born in Montreal into a Jewish family, Lipsett saw his mother, an immigrant from Kiev, commit suicide when he was 10 years ...
Ariane Louis-Seize
Ariane Louis-Seize is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. She has attracted critical acclaim and more than dozen awards for her filmmaking work.
Career
Short films
She received critical acclaim in 2016 for her fi ...
Kate Lushington
Kate Lushington is a Canadian theatre artist and teacher. From 1988 to 1993, Lushington was the artistic director of Nightwood Theatre. Lushington has worked with The Clichettes and is the writer of ''The Apocalypse Plays: A Legacy Project''.
E ...
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Kate Lynch
Kate Lynch (born June 29, 1959) is a Canadian film, television and stage actress, drama teacher, theatre director and playwright.
Biography
In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Actress for ''Meatballs''. She was notably adept at improvisation ...
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Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is an American investor, mutual fund manager, and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more th ...
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Laurie Lynd
Laurie Lynd (born May 19, 1959, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the director of the feature film ''Breakfast with Scot''.
In his early career, Lynd made the short films ''Together and ...
Michael Mabbott
Michael Mabbott is a Canadian film and television director and writer. He is best known for his debut feature film as a director, ''The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico'', which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canad ...
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Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) 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. Since completing his first film i ...
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Adam MacDonald
Adam MacDonald (born May 16, 1977) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director. He is known for portraying Josh MacIntosh on the CBC show ''Being Erica'', Peter McGregor on '' Wild Roses'', and Detective Steve Peck on ''Rookie Blue'', and for hi ...
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Shane MacDougall
Shane MacDougall is a Canadian stand-up comedian, former columnist, television writer, hacker, and documentarian. Best known for his 1999 challenge to Queen Elizabeth II to a kickboxing match or math test for the monarchy of Canada, the challenge r ...
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Adriana Maggs
Adriana Maggs is a Canadian film and television actress, writer and director, best known for her debut feature film '' Grown Up Movie Star''.Michèle Magny
Michèle Magny (born 1944) is a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director from Montreal, Quebec.
Jonah Malak
Jonah Malak, also known as Karim Haroun, is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, producer and editor from Montreal, Canada. He is most noted for his 2020 film ''Dave Not Coming Back'', for which he received a Best Editing in a Documentary nominatio ...
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Émilie Mannering
Émilie Mannering is a Canadian film director. She is most noted for her short films '' Star'', which was a Quebec Cinema Award nominee for Best Short Film at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action ...
Leon Marr
Leon Marr (May 26, 1948 – July 22, 2019) was a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, who won a Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for '' Dancing in the Dark''. He was also a nominee, but di ...
Asghar Massombagi Asghar Massombagi is an Iranian-Canadian film director, most noted for his 2001 film '' Khaled''.Alexandra Gill, "Reflections in an exile's eye". ''The Globe and Mail'', April 20, 2002.
Born and raised in Tehran, he moved to Canada at age 18, and s ...
Molly McGlynn
Molly McGlynn is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.Don McKellar
Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
He is known for directing and writing th ...
Chelsea McMullan
Chelsea McMullan is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for their 2013 film '' My Prairie Home'', a film about transgender musician Rae Spoon.Isiah Medina (film)
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Stella Meghie
Stella Meghie is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is known for her feature films ''Jean of the Joneses'' (2016), '' Everything, Everything'' (2017)'', The Weekend'' (2018), and '' The Photograph'' (2020). Meghie has also directed e ...
Dilip Mehta
Dilip Mehta (born 1952 in New Delhi) is an Indian-born Canadian photojournalist and director. Mehta divides his time between New York City, Delhi and Toronto. His work as a photojournalist has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Newsweek'', '' ...
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Richie Mehta
Richie Mehta is a Canadian film director and writer. His first feature film, '' Amal'', was released in 2008, and was nominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Director at the 29th Genie Awards.
In 2013, Mehta released two films he wrote ...
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André Melançon
André Melançon (February 18, 1942 - August 23, 2016) was a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for directing and writing several installments in the Tales for All series of children's films.
Career
The versatile André M ...
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Robert Ménard
Robert Ménard (born 6 July 1953) is a French far-right politician, currently serving as Mayor of Béziers. Formerly a journalist, he was a co-founder of the Paris-based international non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders, act ...
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Constant Mentzas Constant Mentzas is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and restaurateur from Montreal, Quebec.Marie Paris"Portrait de chef : Constant Mentzas" ''Voir'', October 3, 2019. He is most noted for the short films '' Aspiration'', which was a Jutra Awa ...
Pat Mills
Patrick Eamon Mills (born 1949) is an English comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since. He has been called "the godfather ...
Robert Morin
Robert Morin (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 2009, he received Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Biography
Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessimi ...
James Motluk James Motluk born in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, is a filmmaker of Ukrainian descent. After studying philosophy at Trent University he travelled to Toronto and worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as an assistant director on a televis ...
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Jasmin Mozaffari
Jasmin Mozaffari ( fa, یاسمین مظفری) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Ruba Nadda
Ruba Nadda (born 6 December 1972) is a Canadian film director. She made several award-winning short films, including ''Lost Woman Story'', ''Interstate Love Story'', ''So Far Gone'' and ''Damascus Nights'' before writing and directing features '' ...
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Shasha Nakhai
Shasha Nakhai is a Filipino-Iranian Canadian film director, most noted as co-director with Rich Williamson of the 2021 film '' Scarborough''. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture, and Nakhai and Williamson won the award for ...
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Darlene Naponse
Darlene Naponse is an Anishinaabe filmmaker, writer, director, and community activist from Canada. She is most noted for her 2018 film ''Falls Around Her'', which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018 and subs ...
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Ariel Nasr
Ariel Nasr is a Canadian documentary film director.
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Vincenzo Natali
Vincenzo Natali (born 1969) is an American-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, known for writing and directing science fiction and horror films such as '' Cube'', '' Cypher'', '' Nothing'', and '' Splice''.
Early life and education
Na ...
Aubrey Nealon Aubrey Nealon (born 1971 in New Denver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television director, producer and writer, most noted as the creator and showrunner of the CTV drama series ''Cardinal''.
Nealon began his career as a teen actor, with ...
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Kim Nguyen
Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film '' War Witch (Rebelle)''. The film was the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards;Diane Nyland Proctor (theatre)
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Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin, (born August 31, 1932) is an Abenaki American Canadian filmmaker, singer, artist, and activist primarily known for her documentary films. Born in New Hampshire, United States and raised primarily in Quebec, Canada, she has wri ...
Hugh O'Connor
Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor (April 7, 1962 – March 28, 1995) was an American actor known for his role as James Flynn in the 1984 film ''Brass'' and his portrayal of Lonnie Jamison on '' In the Heat of the Night'' until his death in 1995. He ...
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Terrance Odette
Terrance Odette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his films ''Saint Monica'', which premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and ''Fall'', which premiered at the 2014 Vancouver International Film F ...
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Charles Officer
Charles Officer (October 28, 1975 – December 1, 2023) was a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor, and professional hockey player.
Background
Charles Officer was born in Toronto, Ontario on October 28, 1972. He was born to a ...
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Linda Ohama
Linda Ohama is a Canadian artist and filmmaker. She is most noted for her 2001 film '' Obāchan's Garden.''
Career
Ohama's first feature-length documentary was '' Obāchan's Garden'', released in 2001''.'' The film centred on Ohama's grandmother ...
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Randall Okita
Randall Okita is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and visual artist known for creating work that involves rich visual language and innovative approaches to storytelling.
Career
His 2014 National Film Board of Canada short film '' The Weat ...
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Sidney Olcott
Sidney Olcott (born John Sidney Allcott, September 20, 1872 – December 16, 1949) was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.
Biography
Born John Sidney Allcott in Toronto, he became one of the first great direc ...
Rafaël Ouellet
Rafaël Ouellet is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Dégelis, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2012 film '' Camion'', for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the 15th Jut ...
Alisa Palmer
Alisa Palmer is a Canadian theatre director and playwright. She was the artistic director of Nightwood Theatre from 1993 to 2001. Palmer is currently the artistic director of the English section of the National Theatre School of Canada.
Early l ...
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John Palmer John Palmer may refer to:
People
Politicians
* John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician
* Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician
* John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York
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Ally Pankiw
Ally Pankiw is a Canadian film and television writer and director from Toronto, Ontario,Lyndsey Havens"How Pitching ‘Weirder, More Queer Stuff’ Helped Ally Pankiw Direct MUNA’s ‘Silk Chiffon’ & More" ''Billboard'', June 3, 2022. whose deb ...
Sanjay Patel
Sanjay Patel is an American animator and illustrator who has worked in the animation department of various projects, most of them animated films released by Pixar.
Background
Born in London, United Kingdom to Gujarati Indian parents, Pate ...
Zoé Pelchat Zoé Pelchat is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2020 short film ''Moon (Lune)'', which was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021.Jean-François Van ...
Nicolás Pereda
Nicolás Pereda (born 1982) is a Mexican-Canadian film director. To date, he has directed nine features and three short films.
Personal life
Pereda was born in Mexico City in 1982; he holds dual Mexican and Canadian citizenship and is a resid ...
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Arturo Pérez Torres
Arturo Pérez Torres is a Mexican-born Canadian film director and screenwriter.Ben Petrie (film)
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Carmine Pierre-Dufour
Carmine Pierre-Dufour is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. She is most noted as co-director with Emilie Mannering of the short film '' Mahalia Melts in the Rain'', which was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Bes ...
Benoît Pilon
Benoît Pilon (born July 27, 1962) is a francophone Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative films and documentaries on the human condition. He is also the co-founder of ''"Les Films de l'autre" productions'', whic ...
Pedro Pires
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires (; born 29 April 1934) is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as President from 2001 to 2011.
Life and career
Pires was born in São Filipe, Fogo, Cape ...
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Bruce Pittman
Ronald Bruce Pittman (born February 4, 1950) is a Canadian television and film director best known for directing the 1987 slasher '' Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II''. He also directed the 1989 film ''Where the Spirit Lives'', which won the Gemi ...
Maurice Podbrey
Maurice Podbrey CM (born April 25, 1934) is a South African actor and theatre director. He has spent much of his career in Canada, where he co-founded and was the artistic director of the English-language Centaur Theatre in Montreal.
Biography
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Jeremy Podeswa
Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films '' The Five Senses'' (1999) and ''Fugitive Pieces'' (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows '' Six Feet Under ...
(film, TV)
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Sarah Polley
Sarah Ellen Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress,Howell, Peter (September 24, 1999)"Nobody's Starlet: Toronto's Sarah Polley is Only 20 but already a veteran actor so secure in her craft she can thumb her nose at Hollywood" ''Tor ...
(film)
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Léa Pool
Léa Pool C.M. (born 8 September 1950) is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who taught film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has directed several documentaries and feature films, many of which have won significant awards including the ...
Michel Poulette
Michel Poulette is a Canadian film and television director, writer and producer. He won the Claude Jutra Award in 1994 for his first feature film, ''Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)'', which became the first American re ...
(film, TV)
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Brigitte Poupart
Brigitte Poupart is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is most noted for her performance in the film '' Ravenous'' (''Les Affamés'') and for directing the 2012 film '' Over My Dead Body.''
Early life
Poupart was accepted both to law school ...
(film)
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Jason Priestley
Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is a Canadian actor and television director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1990–1998, 2000), as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick in t ...
Ben Proudfoot
Ben Proudfoot (born October 29, 1990) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is most noted as director of ''The Queen of Basketball'', winner of the 2021 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject; as well as codirector with Kris Bowers of the short ...
Tom Radford
Tom Radford (born March 12, 1946) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta.Tom Murray"Tom Radford" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', March 22, 2010. A cofounder with Anne Wheeler and P. J. Reese of the Filmwest Associates studio, Ra ...
(documentary film and television)
* Matthew Rankin (film)
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Mort Ransen
Mort Ransen (August 16, 1933 – September 4, 2021) was a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known for his Genie Award-winning 1995 film ''Margaret's Museum''.
Ransen was born in Montreal, Quebec, and was educated at the ...
(film)
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Benjamin Ratner
Benjamin Immanuel (also credited as Ben Ratner or Benjamin Ratner) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is most noted for his performances in the films '' Last Wedding'' and ''Looking for Leonard''.
Career
Immanuel has appeared in the films ''M ...
(film)
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Ryan Redford
Ryan Redford is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his debut feature film '' Oliver Sherman''. He was a Genie Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 32nd Genie Awards.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Redford ...
(film)
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Samir Rehem
Samir Rehem is a Canadian film and television director.Greg Furminger, "Fonthill native behind top 10 music video". '' Welland Tribune'', March 28, 2015. He is most noted for his 2007 short film '' The Answer Key'', which was a Genie Award nominee ...
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Kim Renders
Kim Renders (January 14, 1955 – July 17, 2018) was a Canadian writer, director, actor and designer and a founding member of Nightwood Theatre, the oldest professional feminist theatre company in Canada.
Early life
Renders was born in Toronto ...
Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman (; October 27, 1946February 12, 2022) was a Czechoslovak-born Canadian filmmaker. He was best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
Film ...
Boyce Richardson
Boyce Richardson, (March 21, 1928—March 7, 2020) was a journalist, author and filmmaker.
Biography
Richardson was born in Wyndham, New Zealand to Robert and Letitia Richardson, and grew up in Invercargill where, at age 17, he began his caree ...
(documentary)
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Kyle Rideout
Kyle Rideout (born November 9, 1984) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director. He co-owns a production company called Motion 58 with business partner Josh Epstein. He co-wrote and directed the short films Hop the Twig and Wait for Rain as well a ...
(film)
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Velcrow Ripper
Velcrow Ripper (born October 20, 1963, in Gibsons, British Columbia) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, best known for his Genie Award-winning 2006 film ''Scared Sacred'' and his newest feature documentary, '' Fierce ...
Daniel Roby
Daniel Roby (born October 25, 1970, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California, he worked as a camera operator and cinemat ...
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Lina Rodriguez
Lina Rodriguez is a Colombian-Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, Kate Taylor"How filmmaker Lina Rodriguez captures the naturalism of family life" ''The Globe and Mail'', August 18, 2017. most noted for her 2022 documentary film '' My Two Voices ...
(film)
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Daniel Roher
Daniel Roher () is a Canadian documentary film director from Toronto, Ontario. He is most noted for his 2019 film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band'', which was the opening film of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Les Rose
Les Rose was a Canadian film and television director. He was most noted for the film '' Three Card Monte'', for which he received a Canadian Film Award nomination for Best Director at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978.
Rose began his career ...
(film, television)
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Sébastien Rose
Sébastien Rose (born June 30, 1969, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His debut film, '' How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause)'', won the Claude Jut ...
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Patricia Rozema
Patricia Rozema (born 20 August 1958) is a Canadian film director, writer and producer. She was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
Early life
Rozema was born in King ...
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Baņuta Rubess
Baņuta Rubess (born 1956) is a Canadian theatre director, playwright, and professor. She co-wrote ''This is For You, Anna'' as a member of the Anna Project. Rubess was a co-recipient of the 1988 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for childr ...
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Lisa Rubin
Lisa Rubin (born 12 November 1977) is a Canadian theatre director. She lives in Montreal, Canada and since 2014 she is the Artistic and Executive Director of Segal Centre for Performing Arts.
Biography
Rubin made her professional directorial de ...
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Su Rynard
Su Rynard (born 1961) is a Canadian film and television director, editor and video artist. She is most noted as the director of the 2005 feature film ''Kardia (film), Kardia'',Ken Eisner"Kardia" ''Variety (magazine), Variety'', October 26, 2005. wh ...
Annie St-Pierre
Annie St-Pierre is a Canadian film director and producer from Saint-Pascal-de-Kamouraska, Quebec. She is most noted for her documentary film '' All That We Make (Fermières)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Doc ...
Brigitte Sauriol
Brigitte Sauriol (born 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 1983 film '' Just a Game (Rien qu'un jeu)'', for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 5th Geni ...
Shelley Saywell
Shelley most often refers to:
* Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), a major English Romantic poet and husband of Mary Shelley
* Mary Shelley (1797–1851), an English novelist and the wife of Percy Shelley
* Shelley (name), a given name and a sur ...
David Secter
David Secter is a Canadian film director. He is best known for the 1965 film '' Winter Kept Us Warm'', the first English Canadian film ever screened at the Cannes Film Festival.Geoff Pevere"David Secter, the Varsity visionary: How a low-budget st ...
(film)
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Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American film actor, director, and producer, and studio head, known as the 'King of Comedy'.
Born in Danville, Quebec, in 1880, he started in films in the ...
Anthony Shim Anthony Shim ( ko, 심명보) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia.Kelly Townsend"Anthony Shim’s sophomore feature to film in B.C., South Korea" ''Playback (magazine), Playback'', August 27, 2021.
Born in Seoul, ...
Mina Shum
Mina Shum (born 1966) is an independent Canadian filmmaker. She is a writer and director of award-winning feature films, numerous shorts and has created site specific installations and theatre. Her features, '' Double Happiness'' and '' Long Li ...
Dylan Akio Smith
Dylan Akio Smith (born September 21, 1974, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film director and producer.David Spaner, "Really good movies, ReelFast: Dylan Akio Smith had 48 hours to make winning film". ''The Province'', August 26, 2003. ...
Roger Spottiswoode
John Roger Spottiswoode (born 5 January 1945) is a Canadian-British director, editor and writer of film and television.
Early life
He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was raised in Britain. His father Raymond Spottiswoode was a British ...
Lib Spry
Lib Spry is a Canadian director, playwright, and academic. She is a co-founder of Company of Sirens and Straight Stitching Productions and served as the artistic director of Passionate Balance.
Career
In 1986, Spry co-founded the feminist thea ...
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Robin Spry
Robin Spry (October 25, 1939 – March 28, 2005) was a Canadian film director and television producer and screenwriter.
Spry was perhaps best known for his documentary films '' Action: The October Crisis of 1970'' and '' Reaction: A Portrait of ...
John Stark
Major-General John Stark (August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822) was an American military officer who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. He became known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Batt ...
Lynne Stopkewich
Lynne Stopkewich (born 1964) is a Canadian film director. She attracted attention for her feature film directorial debut '' Kissed'' (1996).
Life and career
In 1987, Stopkewich obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in film studies from Conc ...
Sudz Sutherland
David "Sudz" Sutherland is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His credits include the films ''Doomstown'', ''Love, Sex and Eating the Bones'', ''Guns'', ''Speakers for the Dead'' and '' Home Again'', as well as episodes of ''Drop the Beat' ...
Matthew Swanson
Matthew Swanson is a Canadian filmmaker and commercial director from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is most noted for his 2005 short film '' Hiro'', which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 27th Genie Awards in 20 ...
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Bruce Sweeney
Bruce Sweeney (born in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian film director. He has spent his career based primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Career
Sweeney's debut film, '' Live Bait'', won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toro ...
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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers (born in 1986) is a Blackfoot and Sámi filmmaker, actor, and producer from the Kainai First Nation in Canada. She has won several accolades for her film work, including multiple Canadian Screen Awards.
Bor ...
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Katie Tallo
Katie Tallo is a Canadian screenwriter, director, and author.
Early life
Tallo grew up in Ottawa in the Carleton Heights neighbourhood of Nepean, Ontario, Nepean. She is a graduate of Carleton University and Algonquin College.
Career
Inspired ...
Jordan Tannahill
Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian author, playwright, filmmaker, and theatre director.
His novels and plays have been translated into twelve languages, and honoured with a number of prizes including two Governor General's Literary Awards.
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Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is a British-Canadian actress and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1,'' ''Stargate Atlantis,'' an ...
Madison Thomas
Madison Thomas is an independent film and television writer and director from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is most noted for her 2022 documentary film '' Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On.''
Career
Thomas' debut feature film was the post-apocal ...
Kelly Thornton
Kelly Thornton (born 13 April 1997) is an Irish actress who began her career as a child actress. She is best known for her roles as Corrina Mallon in the 2015 RTÉ drama '' Clean Break'' and Emma in the film '' Life's a Breeze'' (2013), which ...
Thyrone Tommy
Thyrone Tommy is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter. After writing and directing the short film ''Mariner (film), Mariner'' (2016), Tommy received acclaim for his work on the feature film ''Learn to Swim'' (2021), both of which p ...
Terry Tweed
Terry Tweed (born 23 March 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director from Toronto, Ontario."Director hopes to harvest magic in U of O revival of Farm Show". ''Ottawa Citizen'', March 10, 1987.
Esther Valiquette
Esther Valiquette (November 1962 – September 8, 1994) was a Canadian documentary film director.Stan Shatenstein, "Film-maker dies of AIDS". ''Montreal Gazette'', September 19, 1994. She is most noted for her 1992 documentary film '' The Measure o ...
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Jean-Marc Vallée
Jean-Marc Vallée (March 9, 1963December 25, 2021) was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université de Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including '' ...
Ingrid Veninger
Ingrid Veninger (born August 21, 1968) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor at York University. Veninger began her career in show business as a child actor in commercials and on television; as a teen, she was fea ...
Martin Villeneuve
Martin Villeneuve () is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and art director. He was nominated at the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) in 2013 for Best Adapted Screenplay, for '' Mars et Avril'', his feature film debut ...
Clement Virgo
Clement Virgo (born June 1, 1966) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director who runs the production company, Conquering Lion Pictures, with producer Damon D'Oliveira. Virgo is best known for co-writing and directing an adapt ...
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Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Wiebke von Carolsfeld (born 1966) is a German Canadian film director, writer and editor."German's debut film perfectly Canadian". ''Vancouver Sun'', April 18, 2003. Her debut feature film as a director, '' Marion Bridge'', won the Toronto Interna ...
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Kristina Wagenbauer
Kristina Wagenbauer is a Canadian film director and screenwriter based in Montreal, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2017 feature film '' Sashinka'', for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Casting at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, ...
Cole Walliser
Cole Walliser is a Canadian filmmaker and music video director. He has directed videos for Miley Cyrus, P!nk and Katy Perry.
Life and career
Cole Walliser was born in Steveston, British Columbia and grew up in Vancouver. He is an alumnus from ...
Darrell Wasyk
Darrell Wasyk (born 18 May 1958 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian film director.
Biography
Darrell Wasyk was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He worked extensively in both theatre and opera before making the transition to film.
Film
Making his fe ...
Lulu Wei
Lulu Wei is a Canada, Canadian cinematographer and film director, most noted for their 2020 documentary film ''There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace''. Wei received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 202 ...
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Jeth Weinrich Jeth Weinrich is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and music video and commercial director.
Early life
Weinrich was born in Pittsburgh in 1951 and grew up in Calgary; he was valedictorian of his graduating class at Viscount Bennett High School i ...
Peter Wellington
Peter William Wellington (born 21 August 1957) is an Australian politician. He was the independent member for Nicklin in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2017, and served as Speaker from 2015 to 2017. Wellington has held the b ...
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Ron Weyman
Ronald Charles Tosh Weyman (December 13, 1915 – June 26, 2007) was a British-born Canadian film and television director and producer."RON WEYMAN, 91 SAILOR, PRODUCER, PAINTER AND NOVELIST: Pioneer filmmaker turned hard-hitting social issues into ...
Maureen White
Patricia Maureen White, more commonly known as Maureen White, is a specialist in international humanitarian affairs and a fundraiser for the American Democratic Party. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School ...
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Sherry White
Sherry White is a Canadian film and television actress, writer and filmmaker, best known for her work as a producer and writer for the television series ''MVP'', ''Rookie Blue'' and ''Saving Hope''Nigel Shawn Williams
Nigel Shawn Williams is a Canadian actor and theatre director from Toronto, Ontario.
David Winning
David Winning is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and occasional actor. Although Winning has worked in numerous film and TV genres, his name is most commonly associated with science fiction, thri ...
(film, television)
* Joyce Wong (film, television)
Aleysa Young
Aleysa Young is a Canadian television director. She is most noted for her work as a director of ''Baroness von Sketch Show'', for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series at the 8th Ca ...
John Zaritsky
John Zaritsky (13 July 1943 – 30 March 2022) was a Canadian documentarian/filmmaker. His work has been broadcast in 35 countries and screened at more than 40 film festivals around the world; in 1983, his film ''Just Another Missing Kid'' w ...
Aziz Zoromba Aziz Zoromba is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his short film '' Simo'', which was the winner of the Best Canadian Short Film award at the 2022 Toronto International Film FestivalChristian Zilko"‘The Fabelman ...
List of Canadian actors
This is an alphabetical list of notable Canadian actors. Some may have dual nationalities, being born elsewhere.
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*Graham Abbey
*Alistair Abell
* Alejandro Abellan
*Raymond Ablack
* Jared Abrahamson
*Aaron Abrams
* Rudwan Khalil Abubaker
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List of Canadian writers
This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
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List of Canadian musicians
This is a list of Canadian musicians. Only notable individuals appear here; bands are listed at List of bands from Canada.
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*347aidan - rapper
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* Lee Aaron – jazz and rock singer-songwriter, also known as "Metal Queen"
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Directors
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...