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 Gemini Awards in 1992 for Leningradskaya: The Hand of Stalin[2] and 1996 for Utshimassits: Place of the Boss.[3]

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,[4] and his film The Fairy Faith was a nominee for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 21st Genie Awards in 2001.[5]

His other films have included Chambers: Tracks and Gestures, Distress Signals, Calling the Shots, Utshimassits: Place of the Boss, God's Dominion: Shepherds to the Flock, Men of the Deeps, Passage, Quebec My Country Mon Pays and Assholes: A Theory. 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.[6]

He was a founding member of the Documentary Organization of Canada.[1]

References
  1. John Walker at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. "CBC drama tops Gemini ceremonies". The Globe and Mail, March 9, 1992.
  3. "Mountie series gets its Gemini, again: Hockey drama Net Worth, new series Traders and sportscaster Ron MacLean come up winners". The Globe and Mail, March 3, 1997.
  4. "Dead Ringers tops Genie picks". Vancouver Sun, February 14, 1989.
  5. "Maelstrom storms the Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2000.
  6. "The parks are alive with the sound of indie music". The Globe and Mail, May 20, 2011.


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