William Phillips is a Canadian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

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. After graduating from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

with a bachelor of science, Phillips studied film at

Ryerson University Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, or Toronto Met), formerly Ryerson University, is a public research university located in Toronto, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District in downtown Toronto, although i ...

. Phillips then ran a film production company entitled Grandview Products and worked on the second-unit of the film ''

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''. After directing two short films, ''Milkman'' and ''Deep Cut'', Phillips wrote and directed his first feature film in 2001, '' Treed Murray''. The film earned five

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nominations including Best Motion Picture. Williams has since directed two more major Canadian films, '' Foolproof'' and ''

Gunless ''Gunless'' is a 2010 Canadian Western comedy film directed by William Phillips and released by Alliance Films. Plot In 1878, a hardened American gunfighter arrives in a small town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a place that doesn't ...

''.

Selected filmography

*''Milkman'' (1997, short film) *''Deep Cut'' (1998, short film) *'' Treed Murray'' (2001) *'' Foolproof'' (2003) *''

'' (2010)

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