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List Of Canadian Directors
The following is a list of Canadians, Canadian film, television and theatre directors, in alphabetical order. A * Jennifer Abbott (documentary) * Louise Abbott (documentary film) * Sarah Abbott (film) * Mark Achbar (film) * Steve J. Adams (film) * Patrick J. Adams (television) * David Acomba * Alfons Adetuyi (film, television) * Robert Adetuyi (film) * Philip Akin (theatre) * Atuat Akkitirq (film) * Zaynê Akyol (documentary) * Geneviève Albert (film) * Clint Alberta (documentary film) * Kim Albright (film) * Martha Allan (theatre) * Jennifer Alleyn (film) * Paul Almond * Joseph Amenta (film) * Bonnie Ammaq (film) * Janet Amos (theatre) * John Murray Anderson (theatre) * Robert Anderson (filmmaker), Robert Anderson (documentary) * Irene Angelico (documentary) * Catherine Annau (documentary) * Denys Arcand (film) * Louise Archambault (film) * Sylvain Archambault (film, television) * Kay Armatage (documentary) * Aviva Armour-Ostroff (film, theatre) * Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians () 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 their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Alleyn
Jennifer Alleyn (born 1969) is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, writer and photographer who lives and works in Montreal. Biography The daughter of artist Edmund Alleyn, she was born in Switzerland. She studied film at Concordia University. Alleyn worked as a journalist for the newspapers ''Le Devoir'', ''Montreal Gazette'' and '' La Presse'' and for '' Elle Québec'' magazine. She travelled around the world while participating in the Radio-Canada television program '' La Course destination monde''. Alleyn wrote and directed a segment "Aurore et Crépuscule" of the 1996 film ''Cosmos''; ''Cosmos'' was included in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. Her 2003 film ''Svanok'' was awarded the prize for best short fiction film by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma. In 2006, she made a film about her father, '' My Father's Studio (L’atelier de mon père, sur les traces d’Edmund Alleyn)''; the film was named best Canadian film at the in Montreal and also received a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Screen Awards in 2022. She was formerly the producer of Toronto's Lab Cab theatre festival.Amy Grief"Toronto actor and playwright explores themes of identity" ''Canadian Jewish News'', October 30, 2015. She is a two-time Dora Mavor Moore Award The Dora Mavor Moore Awards (also known as the Dora Awards or the Doras) are awards presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), honouring theatre, dance and opera productions in Toronto. Named after Dora Mavor Moor ... nominee for her stage performances, receiving a solo nomination for ARC Stage's production of Deirdre Kinahan's play ''Moment'' in 2015, and an ensemble nomination alongside Deborah Drakeford, Carlos González-Vío, Ryan Hollyman, Andre Sills and Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Armatage
Kay Armatage (born 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, former programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival and Professor emerita at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute and Women & Gender Studies Institute. Though she attained a B.A. in English Literature from Queen's University, her name is generally linked with the University of Toronto. Hailing from Saskatchewan, Armatage now lives in Toronto, Ontario. During her time as an international programmer at TIFF, Armatage worked hard to introduce audiences to female filmmakers and showed an affinity for risk-taking films. This tendency plays out in her films; Armatage makes feminist pieces that realist and experimental in form, usually documentaries. As a feminist filmmaker, Armatage makes observational films that speak to women's issues and challenges conventional filmmaking. Career Kay Armatage was an international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival from 1982 to 2004, participating in a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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'or as the top-grossing Quebec film of the year at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011. He also directed the films '' The Canadiens, Forever (Pour toujours, les Canadiens)'', ''French Kiss A French kiss, also known as cataglottism or a tongue kiss, is an amorous kiss in which the participants' tongues extend to touch each other's lips or tongue. A kiss with the tongue stimulates the partner's lips, tongue and mouth, which are sens ...'', and '' La Garde'',Charles-Henri Ramond"Garde, La – Film de Sylvain Archambault" ''Films du Québec'', March 25, 2014. and episodes of the television series ''Le Négociateur'', ''Les Lavigueur, la vraie histoire'', ''Mensonges'' and '' Les Pays d'en haut''. References External links * 1963 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Archambault
Louise Archambault is a Canadian film and television 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 '' Gabrielle'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture in 2014. Archambault has directed numerous short films, including '' Atomic Saké'', ''Lock'', ''Petite Mort'' and '' Kluane''. Her film ''Gabrielle'' was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and won two Canadian Screen Awards at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Picture and Best Actress for star Gabrielle Marion-Rivard. Her third feature film '' And the Birds Rained Down'', an adaptation of Jocelyne Saucier's novel ''Il pleuvait des oiseaux'', was released in 2019. Her fourth film, '' Thanks for Everything (Merci pour tout)'', followed later the same year. and '' One Summer (Le temps d'un été)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Arcand
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (; born June 25, 1941) is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized director from Quebec, earning widespread acclaim and numerous accolades for his "intensely personal, challenging, and intellectual films." His film ''The Barbarian Invasions'' won the Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best Foreign Language Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for ''The Decline of the American Empire'' in 1986 and ''Jesus of Montreal'' in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award. For ''The Barbarian Invasions'', he received an Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for ''Lost in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 in Washington D.C., at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, and at various film festivals worldwide. Annau's other directing work includes the international co-production ''Sexual Intelligence'' with Kim Cattrall, broadcast on HBO, Channel 4, and Discovery Canada; ''Winning'', a documentary about lottery winners, broadcast by the Sundance Channel U.S and public broadcasters, and ''The Power Refugees'', a half-hour documentary about young Canadians in New York, which was nominated for a Gemini award. She produced and directed for CBC's investigative journalism series '' The Fifth Estate''. Her documentary ''The Good Father'' about one of Canada's worst sexual predators won a Gracie Award (U.S). She has also produced an internationally a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Sir George Williams University, Montreal, in 1974. Career In 1980, Angelico and her partner Abbey Jack Neidik, who would become a frequent collaborator, produced and directed the feature documentary ''Dark Lullabies''. The film explored the effect of the Holocaust on children of survivors and second-generation Germans. The film received the first prize for "The Most Socially/Politically Engaging Film" at Mannheim and the prize for "The Most Memorable Film" in Tokyo. It was included in The Fifty Greatest Documentaries of all Time at the international Salute to the Documentary. In the summer of 2013, it was selected as the inaugural feature documentary at the Stratford Festival Forum. The film continues to be screened and broadcast worldw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Anderson (filmmaker)
Robert Anderson (1913 – June 3, 1997) was a Canadian filmmaker who specialized in films about psychiatry, first with the National Film Board of Canada, and then through his own company. He was the first filmmaker to create truthful, objective films about mental health and addiction, and to make films of this type using actual patients, doctors and hospitals, rather than actors in reconstructions. His most famous film is '' Drug Addict'', which caused a furor when it was banned in the United States. Anderson was co-founder of the Canadian National Science Film Library, and he played a large role in bringing television to the Canadian House of Commons. Biography Anderson was born in Bismarck, North Dakota. His family moved to Winnipeg when he was 14, and then to Saskatoon. While in law school at the University of Saskatchewan, he and a friend proposed to the local radio station, CFQC, that they do a weekly variety show called ''University Hour''; the show ran for a year. After g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Murray Anderson
John Murray Anderson (September 20, 1886 – January 30, 1954) was a Canadian theatre director and theatre producer, producer, songwriter, actor, screenwriter, dancer and lighting designer, who made his career in the United States, primarily in New York City and Hollywood. He worked in almost every genre of show business, including vaudeville, Broadway theatre, Broadway, and film. He also directed plays in London. Early life and education John Murray Anderson was born in 1886 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland Colony, Newfoundland, the son of Hon. John Anderson (Newfoundland politician), John Anderson and his wife. His brother was Hugh Abercrombie Anderson. Anderson received his early education at Bishop Feild College in St. John's. He was sent to Europe for additional studies at Edinburgh Academy in Scotland. He entered college at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Later, he also studied singing with Sir Charles Santley and art with Herber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Amos
Janet Amos (born 1945) is a Canadian theatre actress, director, educator, and playwright. Education Amos studied under Marjorie Purvey at the Toronto School of Radio Drama in the 1950s. She earned Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Toronto. Career Amos has led theatre companies as the artistic director of the Blyth Festival (1979–1984 and 1994–1997) and Theatre New Brunswick (1984–1988). She worked as an assistant professor of the University of Regina (2003–2006), as a guest artist at the University of Ottawa (2008) and as instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. Amos is credited as leading an effort to save the Blyth Festival from closure, when she took over as the artistic director in 1994. Prior to her assuming the role of artistic director, the Blyth Festival had lost thousands of audience members and amassed a $229,000 debt. Amos' drove a fundraising campaign that raised more than $100,000 and cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
