Nick Hector is a British Canadian film producer and editor, and professor of film production at the

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Career

Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini for editing King's TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" and Gemini Award-winning ''Dying at Grace'', which the

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described as “one of the best ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for

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’s ''Hand of God''. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on

’s Hot Docs Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner ''Chronique d’un genocide announce''. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson’s '' Air India 182'', making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary. Hector's credits include

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’s Genie-nominated ''Drowning in Dreams''; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning ''Crimes of the Heart''; Min Sook Lee’s ''Hogtown'' and Allan King’s '' Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company''. He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki, '' Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie'', which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the

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, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and also the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner ''Monsoon''. Most recently, Hector was awarded a

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for editing the Canadian instalment of Ridley Scott's '' Life in a Day'' franchise ''

Canada in a Day ''Canada in a Day'' is a Canadian television documentary film directed by Trish Dolman, which aired on CTV in 2017.

''. In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries ''The Perfect Story'', ''

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'', '' Sharkwater Extinction'', '' Wiebo's War'', ''Thay - The Teacher'', ''War Surgeon'', ''Actuality'', and the award-winning ''El Chogui''. He served as series producer for ''Birth Stories'' and ''Love is Not Enough'' and co-director of the CSA Award-winning series ''War Story''. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for ''Wiebo's War''. In 2018, Hector completed the movie ''Sharkwater Extinction'' after the death of Rob Stewart."Sharkwater Extinction finished by Windsor professor after Rob Stewart's death"

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Windsor, August 29, 2018. Hector is a member of the

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, and

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and an international partner of American Cinema Editors.

Filmography

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Jury Prize
American Film & Video Festival Blue Ribbon , - , 1989 , ''Electronic Jam'' , Editor, Sound Editor , Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound , - , 1991 , ''Nuit et silence'' , Editor, Sound Editor , Finaliste -

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Award for Best Television Reportage
Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Best Reportage in any Media , - , 1992 , ''Winds of Memory'' , Editor , Festival of the Americas Special Jury Prize, Best Human Rights Film
Premio Coral, La Habana Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
Premio Festival de las Americas, Lima
Festival Cine-Iberoamerican (Huelva, Spain)
Best Documentary Festival Tam Tam Video, Pisa , - , 1996 , ''Hand of God'' , Editor , HotDocs Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 1997 , ''

Drowning in Dreams ''Drowning in Dreams'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tim Southam and released in 1997. The film centres on Fred Broennle, a German-Canadian businessman from Thunder Bay, Ontario, who engaged in a multi-year effort to raise the ship ...

'' , Editor , Finalist - Genie Award for Best Documentary , - , 1997 , ''Nica-Libre'' , Editor , Primer Premio Documental Festival Derhumalc Buenos Aires , - , 1997 , ''Chronique d'un genocide'' , Editor , Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
Hot Docs Award for Best of Festival
Hot Docs Award for Best Theatrical Film
Chalmers Arts Awards for Best Documentary Film

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Award for Best Quebeccois Film
Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire , - , 1999 , ''The Dragon's Egg'' , Editor , Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary
Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2002 , ''El Chogui'' , Producer, Editor , Contra el Silencio todas las Voces (Mexico) Award for Best Documentary
La Festival Medias Nord-Sud (Switzerland) Award for Best Independent Film

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Award for Best Documentary
San Francisco Latino Film Festival Award for Best in Festival
La Cinemafe Film Festival (New York) Special Jury Prize , - , 2003 , ''Inside Information'' , Editor , Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2003 , '' Dying at Grace'' , Editor , Gemini Award for Best Documentary
Gemini Award for Best Documentary Directing
Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing

Award for Best Documentary Team
Cinematheque Ontario Award for Top Ten Canadian Film
Best Picture - World Cinema, Phoenix , - , 2004 , ''Hogtown'' , Editor , HotDocs Award for Best Canadian Documentary , - , 2005 , '' Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company'' , Editor , Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary
Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team , - , 2006 , '' EMPz 4 Life'' , Editor , Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team , - , 2009 , '' Air India 182'' , Editor , Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award
Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary , - , 2010 , ''Experimental Eskimos'' , Editor , Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award

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's NFB Kathleen Shannon Award
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival Award for Best Documentary , - , 2011 , '' Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie'' , Editor , Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award
Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Documentary Award
Canadian Environmental Media Award of Excellence

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Award for Best Environmental Film

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Award for Best Film
Cinéfest Award for Best Documentary , - , 2012 , '' Wiebo's War'' , Producer, Editor , Finalist - Genie Award for Best Feature Documentary
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King
Finalist -

Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Sheffield Green Award
Honourable Mention - Hot Docs Best Feature Documentary
Honourable Mention -

RIDM The Montreal International Documentary Festival (french: Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal) is a Canadian documentary film festival, staged annually in Montreal, Quebec. In English, the festival now goes by the name Montreal I ...

Award for Best Canadian Feature , - , 2013 , ''Echoes'' , Editor , Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2014 , '' War Story'' , Co-director, Editor ,

for Best Documentary Series
Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary Series
Houston International Independent Film Festival WorldFest Award
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2015 , ''

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'' , Editor ,

Top Ten Canadian Film
TIFF Top Ten Festival Audience Award
Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film
Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award , - , 2016 , '' This Changes Everything'' , Editor , Cinema Politica Audience Choice Award
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2016 , '' War Story: Afghanistan'' , Co-director, Editor , , Canadian Screen Award for Best History Documentary , - , 2017 , ''

Canada in a Day ''Canada in a Day'' is a Canadian television documentary film directed by Trish Dolman, which aired on CTV in 2017.

'' , Editor , Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2017 , ''Unfractured'' , Editor , Planet in Focus Award for Best Canadian Feature
Earthx Film (Texas) Award for Best Feature
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2017 , ''How to Prepare for Prison'' , Editor , Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2018 , '' Sharkwater Extinction'' , Producer, Editor , Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Documentary Editing
Best Environmental Film -

Best Documentary - Fort Lauderdale Film Festival
Courageous Filmmaking Award - Napa Valley Film Festival
Best Educational Film - Green Film Festival (China)
Finalist - Best Documentary - New York Festivals
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing , - , 2019 , ''

'' , Co-producer, Editor , HotDocs Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature
HotDocs Audience Award - Best Canadian Feature

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- Audience Award
Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing
Forest City Film Festival - Best Feature Documentary
Forest City Film Festival - Audience Award
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Feature Documentary
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Fargo Film Festival - Best Feature Documentary
, - , 2020 , ''Fight to the Finish'' , Co-producer, Editor , Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary
, - , 2021 , ''

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'' , Story Editor , Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Social Political Documentary
, - , 2022 , '' The Perfect Story'' , Co-producer, Editor , Best Canadian Documentary - Calgary International Film Festival
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Program

References

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