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Allan King Allan Winton King, (February 6, 1930 – June 15, 2009), was a Canadian film director. Life Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, during the Great Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School, in Kitsilano.Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company''. He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about

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, '' Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie'', which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the

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, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and also the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner ''Monsoon''. Most recently, Hector was awarded a

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for editing the Canadian instalment of Ridley Scott's '' Life in a Day'' franchise '' Canada in a Day''. In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries ''The Perfect Story'', ''

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'', '' Sharkwater Extinction'', '' Wiebo's War'', ''Thay - The Teacher'', ''War Surgeon'', ''Actuality'', and the award-winning ''El Chogui''. He served as series producer for ''Birth Stories'' and ''Love is Not Enough'' and co-director of the CSA Award-winning series ''War Story''. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for ''Wiebo's War''. In 2018, Hector completed the movie ''Sharkwater Extinction'' after the death of Rob Stewart. Hector is a member of the

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,

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, and

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and holds a Doctorate in Fine Art from the

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Filmography

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Gemini Award The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's English-language television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in t ...

for Best Documentary Sound , - , 1991 , ''Nuit et silence'' , Editor, Sound Editor , Finaliste -

Prix Gémeaux The Prix Gémeaux () or Gémeaux Awards honour achievements in Canadian television and digital media that is broadcast in French. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1987. Introduced as a French-language eq ...

meilleur montage documentaire , - , 1996 , ''Hand of God'' , Editor ,

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Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 1997 , ''Chronique d'un genocide'' , Editor , Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire , - , 1999 , ''The Dragon's Egg'' , Editor , Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2002 , ''El Chogui'' , Producer, Editor , Contra el Silencio todas las Voces (Mexico) Award for Best Documentary
La Festival Medias Nord-Sud (Switzerland) Award for Best Independent Film

Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) includes feature films, documentaries, and short films from the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora. The six-day festival was established in 1997. The festival was founded by Marlene Dermer (a ...

Award for Best Documentary
San Francisco Latino Film Festival Award for Best in Festival
La Cinemafe Film Festival (New York) Special Jury Prize , - , 2003 , ''Inside Information'' , Editor , Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2003 , ''

Dying at Grace ''Dying at Grace'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Allan King and released in 2003. The film profiles a group of patients in palliative care at Toronto Grace Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario, exploring their thoughts and feelings on t ...

'' , Editor , Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing

Directors Guild of Canada The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC; ) is a Canadian labour union representing more than 5,500 professionals from 48 different occupations in the Canadian film and television industry. Founded in 1962, the DGC represents directors, editors, assist ...

Award for Best Documentary Team , - , 2005 , '' Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company'' , Editor , Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team , - , 2006 , '' EMPz 4 Life'' , Editor , Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team , - , 2009 , ''

Air India 182 Air India Flight 182 was a passenger flight operating on the Montreal–London–Delhi–Mumbai route that, on 23 June 1985, disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean as a result of an explosion from a bomb planted by Canadian Sikh terrorists. I ...

'' , Editor , Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2010 , ''Experimental Eskimos'' , Editor , Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award , - , 2011 , '' Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie'' , Editor , Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award , - , 2012 , '' Wiebo's War'' , Producer, Editor , Finalist - Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King
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Canadian Cinema Editors Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE) is a professional, educational and cultural association of film editors founded in 2007. The bilingual non-profit organization promotes picture editing in television, film and new media. Central goals of the organi ...

Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2013 , ''Echoes'' , Editor , Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2014 , '' War Story'' , Co-director, Editor , Finalist - Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2015 , ''

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'' , Editor , Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film
Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award , - , 2016 , '' This Changes Everything'' , Editor , Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2017 , '' Canada in a Day'' , Editor , Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2017 , ''Unfractured'' , Editor , Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2017 , ''How to Prepare for Prison'' , Editor , Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2018 , '' Sharkwater Extinction'' , Producer, Editor , Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2019 , ''

Prey Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not ki ...

'' , Co-producer, Editor , HotDocs Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature
Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2020 , ''Fight to the Finish'' , Co-producer, Editor , Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary
, - , 2022 , '' The Perfect Story'' , Co-producer, Editor , Best Canadian Documentary - Calgary International Film Festival
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Program
, - , 2023 , ''The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain'' , Editor, Story Editor , Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Film Editing

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