Jacques Kaszemacher, commonly credited as Jacques Kasma, was a

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- Canadian actor and filmmaker."Jacques Kasma"

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. He was most noted as the winner of the Canadian Film Award for

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at the

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in 1967 for his work on the film ''

Ghosts of a River ''Ghosts of a River'' (french: 3 hommes au mille carré, lit. "Three men per square mile") is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Pierre Patry and Jacques Kasma and released in 1966. The film depicts various ghost towns in British Colu ...

(Trois hommes au mille carré).Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''.

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, 2000. . pp. 77-79. Born in 1935 in Paris, France to Polish Jewish parents Henri Kaszemacher and Chaja Sura Bajwelcwaig, he was hidden for his safety during World War II, during which his parents were both captured by the German Army and died in the Holocaust. He was rescued by the

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and lived in orphanages until the age of 18; as a young adult, he studied mime under Marcel Marceau before moving to Montreal, Quebec, in 1956. In Canada he had various acting roles, including as Ti-Bo in the children's television series ''La boîte à surprise'', as René in the drama series '' Sous le signe du lion'', and as an indigenous warrior in the film ''

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(Astataïon, ou Le Festin des morts)'', and was an early faculty member of the National Theatre School of Canada, teaching improvisational acting. He worked as an editor for the National Film Board of Canada, including on the films ''Ghosts of a River'', ''Entre tu et vous'' and ''

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'', and was credited as a codirector of ''Ghosts of a River''.Réal La Rochelle, "IV^e Festival du cinéma canadien". ''

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'', Vol. 47 (1966). pp. 37-43. He later left the film industry and trained as a

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, joining the research team at the

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