Peter Lynch is a Canadian filmmaker, most noted as the director and writer of the documentary films '' Project Grizzly'', '' The Herd'' and ''

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''.

Career

Lynch's 1994 short film ''

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'', starring

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, won the

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for Best Theatrical Short Film at the

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. His feature debut, ''Project Grizzly'', premiered at the

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, and was a Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the

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. ''The Herd'', about the six-year Canadian Reindeer Drive of the 1930s from Alaska to the Northwest Territories, premiered at the

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, and was a Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the

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. ''Cyberman'', about technology activist and University of Toronto professor Steve Mann, was released in 2001. ''A Whale of a Tale'', about Lynch's quest to discover the origin of a whale bone unearthed in downtown Toronto, followed in 2004. In 2009 Lynch directed four short films for the cross-platform project ''

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''. Lynch, along with six other directors, shot 20 short films about Toronto musicians and the places where their musical lives were transformed. Lynch directed films starting

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, and Laura Barrett. In 2011, he participated in the

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and Mark Hamilton to produce and score a short film about Alberta's

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. Lynch's first dramatic feature film, ''Birdland'', was released theatrically in Canada in January 2018.

Filmography

*''Chinese Concoctions Not Good for TV'' *''Toronto Symphony Orchestra making-of process'' (1992) *''St Bruno, My Eyes As a Stranger'' (1994) *''

'' (1994) *''The Artist and the Collector'' (1994) *'' Project Grizzly'' (1996) *'' The Herd'' (1998) *''

'' (2001) *''Soccer Fever—A Passion Play'' (2002) *''Animal Nightmares'' (2003) *''A Whale of a Tale'' (2004) *''Dem Bones'' (2004) *''Bloodlines'' (2004) *''Things that Move—Helicopters'' *''Habbakuk Ship of Ice'' (2006) *''Who Shot General Wolfe'' (2007) *''The Archivist's Handbook'' (2007) *''The Robotic Chair'' (2007) *''A Short Film about Falling'' (2007) *''

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'' (2008) *''Trend Hunter TV'' (2008) *''

'' (2009) *''Love Is A Dirty Word ''(2010) *''Birdland'' (2018)

References

External links

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