Colin Browne is a Canadian writer, documentary filmmaker and academic.Lynne McNamara, "Vancouver film buff's passion is very old movies". ''

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'', December 1, 2003. He is most noted for his documentary film '' White Lake'', which was a

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nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the

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in 1990, and his poetry collection ''Ground Water'', which was shortlisted for the

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. A longtime professor of film at

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, he launched the PRAXIS workshop for aspiring screenwriters and has been active in efforts to preserve and archive old and rare British Columbia films. His other films as a documentarian have included ''Strathyre'' (1979), ''A Visit from Captain Cook'' (1980), ''Hoppy: A Portrait of Elisabeth Hopkins'' (1984), ''The Image Before Us'' (1986), ''Father and Son'' (1992) and ''Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye'' (2003). As a poet, he has also been a two-time nominee for the

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, receiving nods in 2003 for ''Ground Water'' and in 2013 for ''The Properties'', and a

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nominee in 2008 for ''The Shovel''."Local author's work on shortlist for national award". ''Omineca Express'', July 15, 2008.

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