Rich Williamson is a Canadian film director, cinematographer and editor, most noted as codirector with

Shasha Nakhai Shasha Nakhai is a Filipino-Iranian Canadian film director, most noted as co-director with Rich Williamson of the 2021 film '' Scarborough''. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture, and Nakhai and Williamson won the award for ...

of the 2021 film ''

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''. The film won the

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for

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, and Nakhai and Williamson won the award for

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, at the

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in 2022. A partner with Nakhai in the production firm Compy Films, he first became known for his 2016 short documentary film '' Frame 394'', which was a CSA nominee for Best Short Documentary at the

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in 2017. He was also a CSA nominee for Best Editing in a Documentary at the

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in 2019, for his work on Nakhai's documentary film '' Take Light''. ''Scarborough'', codirected by Nakhai and Williamson as their debut narrative feature film, premiered at the

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. It was named the winner of the Changemaker Award, was first runner-up for the

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, and received an honorable mention from the jury for the Best Canadian Film award. It was nominated for the

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. His other films have included ''Prom Day'' (2009), ''The Sugar Bowl'' (2011), ''Joe'' (2012), ''Freelance'' (2014), ''The Unsinkable Captain John'' (2014), ''The Hole in Reservoir Hill'' (2018)"Short doc explores North Bay's cold war past"
CBC Northern Ontario, September 19, 2018. and ''Thirty Eight Minutes'' (2020).

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