Thomas Selim Wallner is a German/Canadian filmmaker.
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Wallner was a co-founder of Xenophile Media in 2001. He has worked with
Rhombus Media
Rhombus Media is a film and television production company formed in 1978 at the York University Film Department by Barbara Willis Sweete and Niv Fichman, and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Larry Weinstein joined soon after. Rhombus Media ...
since 1995.
Thomas Wallner is a producer, writer, director and game designer working in feature film, television, games and interactive media. In addition to producing innovative cross-media properties for television, he has written and directed eight award-winning feature documentaries that have been broadcast in more than 30 countries.
A leading figure in the creation of participatory narratives he brought the underground genre of
Alternate Reality Gaming into the Television mainstream, culminating in Xenophile Media's Emmy Award-winning Fallen
[http://www.newswire.ca/fr/story/35393/canada-s-xenophile-media-wins-primetime-emmy-r-award-for-the-fallen-alternate-reality-game ] and Regenesis.
In 2007 Wallner developed the story concept for Late Fragment,
Canada's first interactive feature drama produced by the NFB and the Canadian Film Centre.
Thomas is a recipient of numerous honours including two Emmy Awards
with a total of five nominations, three Geminis, a Rose d’Or, two SXSW Interactive Awards, two Webbys and two CNMA's.
He was nominated for Interactive Producer of the Year at the 2011 CNMA awards.
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His documentary, ''
The Guantanamo Trap
''The Guantanamo Trap'' is a documentary film about four individuals whose lives were changed by their association with the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.
The film was directed by Thomas Wallner and won the special jury prize at the 2011 ...
'' won the Special Jury Prize at the
2011 Hot Docs film festival.
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Wallner described being put on the "
no-fly list
The No Fly List maintained by the United States federal government's Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) is one of several lists included in algorithmic rulesets used by government agencies and airlines to decide who to allow to board airline flig ...
" in 2005, after declining to submit to an
iris-scan when he tried to travel to the USA.
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He stated this was his inspiration for ''The Guantanamo Trap''.
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Selected filmography
Gardenia (2012) – writer, director - (In Production) The feature documentary captures the moving story of a group of ageing drag queens and transsexual artists who set out one last time to live the glamorous life of the famous.
The Guantanamo Trap (2011) - Writer, Director – Theatrical Feature Documentary (Swiss, German, Canadian co-production) that tells stories from the U.S. detention camp, not only from the perspective of the captives, but also the captors. Hot Docs World Premiere. 2011 Hot Docs special Jury Prize. 2011 Cinefest NFB best Canadian Feature Doc Award.
Inside Hana's Suitcase (2009) -Writer - Theatrical Feature Documentary about Hana Brady
Hanička "Hana" Brady (born Hana Bradyová; 16 May 1931 – 23 October 1944) was a Czechoslovak Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp at Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaus ...
who was a young girl murdered in Auschwitz.
Late Fragment (2007) – Story Concept - North America's first dramatic interactive feature film, a product of the Canadian Film Center and the NFB, lets the audience piece together and experience the cinematic narrative in a number of ways. Late Fragment retains the focus on complex character-driven stories surrounding the impact of violent crime on their lives.
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German emigrants to Canada
Living people
German documentary film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian documentary film directors