John Walker (filmmaker)
John Charles Walker (born July 5, 1952 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer.[1]
His film Strand: Under the Dark Cloth won the Genie Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990,[1] and he won a Gemini Award in 1992 for Leningradskaya: The Hand of Stalin.[2] He was also a Genie Award nominee for Best Director at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for A Winter Tan, a collective film that he codirected and coproduced with Louise Clark, Jackie Burroughs, Aerlyn Weissman and John Frizzell,[3] and his film The Fairy Faith was a nominee for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 21st Genie Awards in 2001.[4]
His other films have included Chambers: Tracks and Gestures, Distress Signals, Place of the Boss: Utshimassits, God's Dominion: Shepherds to the Flock, Men of the Deeps and Passage. In 2011 he was a participant in the National Parks Project, collaborating with musicians Chad Ross, Sophie Trudeau and Dale Morningstar on a short film about Prince Edward Island National Park.[5]
He was a founding member of the Documentary Organization of Canada.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 John Walker at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ↑ "CBC drama tops Gemini ceremonies". The Globe and Mail, March 9, 1992.
- ↑ "Dead Ringers tops Genie picks". Vancouver Sun, February 14, 1989.
- ↑ "Maelstrom storms the Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2000.
- ↑ "The parks are alive with the sound of indie music". The Globe and Mail, May 20, 2011.