Egidio Coccimiglio is a

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film director from

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.Brian Kelly
"Sault director gets 'creative' with teen thriller"
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'', July 5, 2023. He is most noted as the director of the films ''

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'' (2013) and ''

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'' (2023). After studying film at

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, he began his career in film as a sound technician, notably receiving a

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nomination at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988 for ''

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''. His other sound credits included the films '' Loyalties'', '' Concrete Angels'', '' The Top of His Head'' and ''

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''. He directed his first short film, ''American Exit'', in 1989, and followed up in 1992 with ''Blast 'Em'', a documentary film about

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that he co-directed with Joseph Blasioli. He was then a director's apprentice on the 1994 film '' Only You''. In 2003 he entered production on ''Imaginary Grace'', which would have been his narrative feature debut, but the film was never completed or released. In 2009 he also published the novella ''A Pleasant Vertigo''.Emily Donaldson
"Reviews: A Pleasant Vertigo by Egidio Coccimiglio; Harbour View by Binnie Brennan; The Cousin by John Calabro"
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'', December 2009. His thriller films ''Compulsion'' and ''Cascade'' were both filmed in and around Sault Ste. Marie. When ''Cascade'' premiered on

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in summer 2023 it premiered in the Top 10 for Canadian viewership, one of the first independent Canadian films ever to do so on that platform.Darren Taylor
"Movie full of Sault connections cracks Netflix Canada's Top 10"
'' Soo Today'', July 20, 2023.

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