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

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. 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 ''

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'', ''Private Eyes'', '' Strange Empire'', ''

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'', '' The Guard'', '' This Is Wonderland'', '' Da Vinci's Inquest'', and '' Cold Squad''.

Awards and honors

Wheeler has been nominated four times for the

Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Direction to the best work by a film director, director of a Canada, Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of ...

for her films '' Loyalties'' (1986), '' Cowboys Don't Cry'' (1988), '' Bye Bye Blues'' (1989), and '' Suddenly Naked'' (2001). Her 1998 television miniseries, '' The Sleep Room'', won

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for best television movie and best direction. In 2017 Wheeler won a

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for Best Direction (Television Film) for the

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movie '' Stop the Wedding''. Wheeler was made an Officer of the

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in 1995. In 2012 she received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Wheeler has also been awarded seven honorary doctorates and is the first woman to be given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of Canada.

Filmography

Film

Documentary film Short film

Television

TV movies TV series

References

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 ...

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