Daniel Cross (filmmaker)
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maker, producer and
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whose films deal with social justice. Cross is co-founder and president of
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with fellow director/producer Mila Aung-Thwin. He is also founder of Homeless Nation, a non-profit
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endeavor that started in 2006 and has become a Canadian national collective voice by and for Canada's homeless population. Cross is a professor at the
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, Concordia University, Montreal


Education

Cross is a graduate of
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, BFA 91, MFA 98.


Career

Cross directed the films '' The Street: A Film with the Homeless'' and '' S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic'', where hundreds of
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people from Montreal shared their many, amazing stories with him. From the movie, came the idea of a forum where these stories would not be lost and where Canada's homeless community could share their stories and refuse to be ignored. Both films received theatrical distribution, international broadcast and critical acclaim Cross also has experience in TV broadcasting, having directed and produced the
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nominated '' Too Colourful for the League'' and '' Chairman George'' on the stations CTV,
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's '' Storyville'' and
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. ''Chairman George'' won awards at the AFI/Silverdocs and at Guangzhou Documentary Festival. He was the executive producer of the internationally acclaimed ''
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'', about a pleasure cruise through the devastation the world's largest hydro-electric dam caused. In addition to making films, Cross is active in the film community, serving on the boards of CFTPA, Observatoire du Documentaire and
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(formerly CIFC). He also serves as a board member of
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and the "Documentary Organization of Canada" and teaches film production at
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in
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,
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. Previously, he taught at
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in Regina,
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.


Awards and participations

*In 2015 he won the '' Canada Screen Award'' (Canada's Oscar) for Best Theatrical Documentary Film and Best Cinematography for I Am The Blues *He received the ''
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'' Luminary Award, The Trailblazer award at MIPDOC in France, The Don Haig Award at Hot Docs and is a member of the Provosts Circle of Distinction at
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*In 2010 he won the United Nations World Summit Award for e-inclusion with his project Homeless Nation *In 2006, he won the Golden Sheaf Award at Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival for Chairman George alongside Mila Aung-Thwin.


Filmography

*'' The Street: A Film with the Homeless'' (1997) *'' S.P.I.T. - Squeegee Punks In Traffic'' (2001) *'' Too Colourful for the League'' (2001) *'' Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive'' (2004) *'' Chairman George'' (2005) *''
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'', Father of the Computer (2014) *'' I Am the Blues'' (2015)


References


External links

*
EyeSteelFilm Official web site
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