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Paul Cowan (filmmaker)
Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent the bulk of his career with the National Film Board of Canada. Career Cowan was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature for '' Going the Distance'', a documentary about the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He was the director of the controversial docudrama '' The Kid Who Couldn't Miss'' and cinematographer on the Oscar-winning '' Flamenco at 5:15''. He is the winner of a Genie Award for his documentary ''Westray'', on the Westray Mine disaster. He wrote and directed the 2005 documentary '' The Peacekeepers''. He retired from the NFB in 2009, after directing a film adaptation of Margaret MacMillan's '' Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War''. He directed the 2012 documentary ''The Crash of Flight 810'', part of TSN's ''Engraved on a Nation'' series of eight documentaries celebrating the 100th Grey Cup. It concerns the 1956 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 plane crash into Slesse Mountain ...
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Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ...
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Amer Shomali
Amer Shomali (Arabic: عامر شوملي, born 1981), is a Palestinian interdisciplinary visual artist who uses conceptual art, painting, digital media, films and comics to explore Palestinian sociopolitical issues and revolution iconography. He holds a master's degree in animation from the Arts University Bournemouth in the United Kingdom and a bachelor's degree in architecture from Birzeit University, West Bank. He was born in Kuwait in 1981 and lives in Ramallah, West Bank. Selected work In 2006, he was one of 13 artists in the Palestinian Filmmakers’ Collective to contribute a short work to the anthology film, ''Summer 2006, Palestine'', offering a portrait of Palestinian society. In 2011 Shomali exhibited his work ''The Icon'' a portrait of Leila Khaled made of 3500 lipsticks. In 2014, Shomali completed the documentary ''The Wanted 18'', co-directed with Canadian director Paul Cowan, about the efforts of his Palestinian town of Beit Sahour to establish an independent ...
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Film Directors From Quebec
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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Anglophone Quebec People
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People From Westmount, Quebec
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
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Wyndham Wise
Wyndham Paul Wise is a Canadian film historian, critic, editor and publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the film magazine '' Take One: Film & Television in Canada'' (1992-2006). Career Born in London, England, Wyndham Wise was raised in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto. He has a M.A. from the Graduate School of Drama, University of Toronto, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Graduate Programme in Film and Video, York University. On stage as a child with the Don Mills Players, he was the first film contributor to the monthly city listings in ''Toronto Life'' magazine (1972–74). During the mid-1970s, Wise was part of the nascent Toronto underground theatre scene, producing ''Shop-Talk'' ( Toronto Free Theatre, 1976), ''Spinning'' ( CEAC and P.S. 1. NYC, 1977) and ''Con/Notes'' (produced by Theatre Passe Muraille at CEAC, 1977) with Richard Shoichet. He was cameraman and editor on several installations by the noted Canadian artist Noel Harding, and he also produced ...
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Take One (Canadian Magazine)
''Take One'' (published Montreal, 1966–1979) (, ) was a Canadian magazine devoted to coverage of both Canadian and international film. Founded by three "graduates" of the McGill Film Society—Peter Lebensold, Adam Symansky and John Roston -- ''Take One'' was the first serious English-Canadian film magazine. This—first of the two Canadian film magazines entitled ''Take One''—gave due attention to the newly emerging Canadian film scene, but was international in scope. Description It was inexpensive (initially 25 cents a copy), and aimed to publish bi-monthly—a goal which it rarely achieved. The magazine attracted some of the best film journalists of the time (including ''Time'' magazine reviewer Jay Cocks, James Monaco uthor of the standard textbook, ''How to Read a Film'' Alanna Nash, and the Montreal cartoonists Terry Mosher and Vittorio Fiorucci) -- and often filmmakers themselves (including Brian DePalma and Richard Dreyfuss, who met Lebensold while he was filming '' ...
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Katie Malloch
Katie Malloch is a Canadian broadcaster who previously hosted the series '' Tonic'', a nightly jazz program on CBC Radio 2. She was co-creator and host of ''Jazz Beat'' which aired on CBC radio from 1983 to March 2007. A graduate of McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ..., Malloch began freelancing for the CBC in 1972, and became a staff announcer in 1975. On January 9, 2012, Malloch announced on CBC Radio Montreal's Daybreak that she would be retiring from the CBC after 37 years. She retired at the end of March 2012."Saying goodbye..."
, CBC Music Tonic Blog, March 29, 2012 Malloch is married to the docume ...
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Animation World Network
Animation World Network (often just "AWN") is an online publishing group that specializes in resources for animators, with an extensive website offering news, articles and links for professional animators and animation fans. Specifically, AWN covers animator profiles, independent film distribution, major animation studio activities, licensing, CGI and other animation technologies, as well as current events in all fields of animation. AWN also publishes print magazines. The magazines are ''Animation World'', dedicated to animation in general, and ''VFX World'', which focuses on special effects and computer-generated imagery. History In 1995, Ron Diamond partnered with Dan Sarto Animation World Network (often just "AWN") is an online publishing group that specializes in resources for animators, with an extensive website offering news, articles and links for professional animators and animation fans. Specifically, AWN cov ... and founded the Animation World Network. A year af ...
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