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Christopher Williams (Cold Squad)
''Cold Squad'' is a Canadian police procedural drama television series that aired on CTV from 1998 to 2005. Created by Matt MacLeod, Philip Keatley and Julia Keatley, it stars Julie Stewart as Sgt. Ali McCormick, the lead investigator on a team of homicide detectives who reopen long-unsolved (or "cold") cases, using present-day forensic technology and psychological profiling to help crack them. ''Cold Squad'' was produced by Keatley MacLeod Productions and Alliance Atlantis in association with CTV Television Network, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund (Canada Media Fund). ''Cold Squad'' is the first prime time national series produced out of Vancouver, British Columbia. With seven seasons and 98 episodes it became the longest-running prime time drama series on Canadian television. Julie Stewart directed and starred in three episodes of the series: "The Nanny" (No. 66), "Back in the Day" (No. 79), and "Mr. Bad Example" (No. 93). Episode run time is 43 minute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Squad
''Cold Squad'' is a Canadian police procedural television series that premiered on CTV on January 23, 1998, at 10 p.m., and ran for seven seasons. Led by Sergeant Ali McCormick ( Julie Stewart), a team of homicide detectives from the Vancouver Police Department reopen long-unsolved, or "cold" cases (the titular "Cold Squad"), using present-day forensic technology and psychological profiling to help crack them. ''Cold Squad'' premiered simultaneously in French Canada on Séries+ as ''Brigade spéciale''. The series was created by Matt MacLeod, Philip Keatley and Julia Keatley, and produced by Keatley MacLeod Productions and Alliance Atlantis in association with CTV Television Network, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund (Canada Media Fund). ''Cold Squad'' is the first prime time national series produced out of Vancouver. With seven seasons and 98 episodes it became the longest-running prime time drama series on Canadian television. The cast of ''Cold Squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Title Sequence
A title screen (also called an opening screen or intro) is the method by which films or television show, television programmes present their title and key filmmaking, production and cast members, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound (often an opening theme song with visuals, akin to a brief music video). It typically includes (or begins) the text of the opening credits, and helps establish the setting and tone of the program. It may consist of live action, animation, music, still images and graphics. In some films, the title sequence is preceded by a cold open. History Since the invention of the cinematograph, simple title cards were used to begin and end silent film presentations in order to identify both the film and the production company involved, and to act as a signal to viewers that the film had started and then finished. In silent cinema, title cards or intertitles were used throughout to convey dialogue and plot, and it is in some of these early short films that we se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Harvey (director)
Gary Harvey (born August 5, 1962) is a Canadian television director, writer and producer.Megan McAteer"Murdoch Mysteries director Gary Harvey finds power in being open about his invisible disability" CBC News CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC ..., March 31, 2023. Awards References External links * Canadian television directors Canadian television producers Living people 1962 births {{Canada-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Williams (director)
Stephen Williams is a Canadian film director, film and television director. Williams has directed several modern-day television programs including work as a regular director on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC drama series ''Lost (2004 TV series), Lost'', where he was also a television producer, co-executive producer. Career In 1995, Williams wrote and directed the film ''Soul Survivor (film), Soul Survivor'', which starred his brother Peter Williams (actor), Peter in the main role. In 2004, he began directing on the ABC drama series ''Lost (2004 TV series), Lost'', and later also rose to the position of co-executive producer. Personal life Williams is married to Jocelyn Snowdon and the couple has a daughter together, also in addition to Stephen's twin sons, Gabriel and Justis. The couple now resides in the Los Angeles area. His brother is actor Peter Williams (actor), Peter Williams, best known for playing the Goa'uld Apophis on ''Stargate SG-1''. Filmography Prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Walker
Giles Walker (January 17, 1946 – March 23, 2020) was a Scottish-born Canadian film director. Biography Giles Walker, born in 1946 in Dundee, Scotland, received a B.A. from the University of New Brunswick and an M.A. from Stanford University Film School in 1972. He joined the National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; ) is a Canadian public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and altern ... soon after, directing documentaries, then switching to dramas in 1977. ''Bravery in the Field'' was nominated for a live-action short Oscar in 1979. ''The Masculine Mystique'' (directed with John N. Smith), the first of a trio of NFB movies dealing with issues of gender relations, showed Walker's experimental side, working with non-professional actors and the technique of improvisation. The two other films in the series, howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Foon
Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of plays that continue to be produced internationally in numerous languages. He has received the British Theatre Award, two Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Chalmers awards, the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, Jesse Richardson Career Achievement Award, a Governor General's nomination for ''Skin'', and the International Arts for Young Audiences Award for these. In 2007, he was made a lifetime member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada for “his outstanding contribution to Canadian Playwriting and Theatre.” Foon's screenplays have continued his exploration into the psyche of youth: ''Little Criminals'' (1995), produced as a CBC Television, CBC movie about an 11-year-old gang leader, won multiple national and international awards; ''Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Wheeler
Anne Wheeler, OC, (born September 23, 1946) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer, and director. Biography Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years of travels inspired her to become a storyteller and when she returned she joined a group of old friends to form a film collective. From 1975 to 1985 she worked for the NFB where she made her first feature film, ''A War Story'' (1981), which was about her father, Ben Wheeler and his time as a doctor in a P.O.W. camp during World War II. The war is a common theme in her work and she revisited it later in her films '' Bye Bye Blues'' (1989) and ''The War Between Us'' (1995). Her first non-NFB film was '' Loyalties'' in 1986. In addition to her films, Wheeler has directed episodes of ''Anne with an E'', ''Private Eyes'', '' Strange Empire'', ''The Romeo Section'', '' The Guard'', '' This Is Wonderland'', '' Da Vinci's Inquest'', and '' Cold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Leiterman
Richard Leiterman (March 7, 1935 – July 14, 2005) was a Canadian cinematographer, best known for documentary and feature film work in the 1960s and 1970s. His cinéma vérité, or direct camera, style helped define Canadian cinema at the time. Biography Born in the small town of South Porcupine in northern Ontario in 1935, the brother of film producer Douglas Leiterman. He grew up in Vancouver, where he spent his young years working as a waste collector, beachcomber and truck driver. During his mid-20s, he was encouraged by his brother-in-law, Allan King, to take a camera technician course at the University of British Columbia. Leiterman took to the film camera like a natural. He sold his car to buy a 16mm camera, and proceeded to shoot stock footage, which he then sold to Canadian broadcasters like the CBC. Hired by Allan King as a second camera operator on a documentary, Leiterman went to London and, in 1962, co-founded Allan King Associates with him. The company focused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Buitenhuis
Penelope Buitenhuis (born 1963) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.Mike Roberts, "Emerging from underground: Director brings anarchy and rock 'n' roll to screen". ''The Province'', April 28, 1995. She is most noted as a two-time Directors Guild of Canada award nominee, receiving nods for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film in 2002 for '' Tokyo Girls'', and the DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film in 2010 for '' A Wake''. Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, in the late 1970s to study at Simon Fraser University. She subsequently moved to Berlin, Germany, for a number of years, making a number of short films with a radical artists' collective before releasing her debut feature film, ''Trouble'', in 1993. She subsequently returned to Canada, where she directed the films ''Boulevard'' (1994) and ''Giant Mine'' (1996).Bonnie Malleck, "Giant Mine unearths some powerful emotions". ''Waterloo Region Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Rai Berzins
Andrew Rai Berzins is a Canadian film and television writer. He is most noted as cowriter with Andrew Wreggitt of the television film ''Borealis (2013 film), Borealis'', for which they won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. Berzins published a short story collection, ''Cerberus'', with Goose Lane Editions in 1994. The following year Holly Dale directed Berzins's first screenplay, ''Blood and Donuts'', for which Berzins received a Genie Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996."Over-the-edge Canadian films poised for Genie nod". Canadian Press, November 24, 1996. In the same era, he was a writer for the television series ''Straight Up (TV series), Straight Up''. He received three Gemini Award nominations for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series in the 2000s at the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001 for ''Scorn (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pozer
John Pozer is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He has had two independent films chosen for the Cannes International Film Festival and has directed a number of live action and animated television episodes. Biography Pozer began his career in the 1960s as a stage actor, touring in musical theatre productions such as ''Camelot'', ''The King and I'', ''The Sound of Music'', and starring in the title roles of ''Oliver'' and ''Peter Pan''. He went on to star as Jim Hawkins in ''Treasure Island'', which opened the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. In 1970, Pozer was presented with the E.V. Young Memorial Award for Most Promising Actor. Born in Kamloops, British Columbia, Pozer studied filmmaking and creative writing at the University of British Columbia and graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in Cinema from Concordia University in Montreal. He received the UBC Film Society Award for his series of documentaries which profiled university life in the 1980s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology Amazon or Amazone may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Amazon (Amalgam Comics) * Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer * Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters * The Amazon, a '' Diablo II'' character * The Amazon, a '' Pro Wrestling'' character * Amazon (''Dragon's Crown''), a character from the ''Dragon's Crown'' game * '' Kamen Rider Amazon'', title character in the fourth installment of the ''Kamen Rider'' series Film and television * ''The Amazons'' (1917 film), an American silent tragedy film * ''The Amazon'' (film), a 1921 German silent film * '' War Goddess'', also known as ''The Amazons'', a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama * ''Amazons'' (1984 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |