Stephen Hegyes is a Canadian film producer, associated with several films, including '' Double Happiness'' and ''

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History

Stephen Hegyes is a graduate from the Masters Program in

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at the

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, where he majored in film and television production. Hegyes' association with movie production commenced with his role as producer of ''Double Happiness'', a 1994 award-winning film, written and directed by

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, starring

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. Hegyes continued his association with Shum by producing her second film, '' Drive, She Said'', in 1997. Hegyes has won three

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, an awards program honouring the British Columbia film and television industry. In 2009 and 2011, he shared the award for Best Feature Length Drama for '' Fifty Dead Men Walking'' and '' Gunless'', respectively. Much of Hegyes' production work was through Brightlight Pictures, which he co-founded. It was announced in late 2012 that Hegyes had left Brightlight Pictures, but would continue to collaborate with co-founder

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on future projects. Williamson had purchased Hegyes' interest in the company. In late 2013, it was announced that Hegyes, along with

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, the producer of the '' Continuum'' Canadian television series, had established Reality Distortion Field, a genre film and television producer, with the objective of developing original content in the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres. On September 28, 2018, it was announced that Hegyes will be credited as an executive producer alongside

in the upcoming

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fantasy series, '' Warrior Nun''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hegyes, Stephen Film producers from British Columbia Living people Year of birth missing (living people)