Ted Remerowski, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, was born in Poland in 1948. After a rather circuitous passage through the Middle East and Europe, his family arrived in Canada in 1951. Growing up in

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, he graduated from

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's School of Architecture. In 1979, he produced a documentary on the underwater excavation of HMS Sapphire in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland for the

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. His later works include contributing to ''

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'', a series of one-hour documentaries first aired on

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in 1980 for which he won the

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as Best Editor for his work on

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's ''

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''. He won a Gemini and a Gemeaux as producer for '' The Struggle for Democracy''. He won the Yorkton Short Film Festival award for his work on '' Frankensteer''. He has been nominated numerous times for the Canadian Gemini Awards, including Best Writer for ''God's Dominion'' and ''Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities'', Best Sports Documentary for ''Dying to Win'' and Best Television Series for ''Legendary Sin Cities'' for which he was also nominated at the Canadian Screenwriting Awards in the Documentary category. He opened his own production company called Tremer Productions in 2006. In 2008 his documentary ''Dubai: Miracle or Mirage?'' was nominated for another Canadian Screenwriting Award. His next documentary ''Google World'' which premiered on CBC's ''

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'' examined Google and its move into

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* 1948 births Living people Film directors from Montreal Canadian documentary film directors McGill School of Architecture alumni Canadian Screen Award winning writers Canadian Screen Award winning editors {{canada-film-director-stub