IRENE ANGELICO, Writer/Director
GERMAN GUTTIEREZ, Additional Director/DOP
IRENE ANGELICO, Writer/Director
Irene Lilienheim Angelico began her career as a Director and Editor with the National Film Board of Canada. Her works have been selected to represent the best of the NFB's Studio D at retrospectives in London and France. She is also the founding chairperson of CIFC-Montreal, the Canadian Independent Film Caucus.
In 1980, Angelico directed Dark Lullabies / Berceuses Sombres which has been shown in 26 countries around the world and won numerous first prizes and prestigious awards
1998 saw the release of two highly successful documentaries. The Love Prophet and the Children of God is an inside look at one of today's most controversial religious cults and was awarded a Gold Plaque in Chicago. The Cola Conquest, which Angelico directed, co-produced and wrote, is a three-part documentary special that has garnered Best Documentary Series by an Independent at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, a Silver Hugo in Chicago, a Gold Apple in San Francisco, a Gemini nomination for Best Documentary Series, and a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary or Series.
Irene is currently directing the documentary series Inside the Great Magazines.For more than 18 years, Ina Fichman has been producing award-winning documentary and fiction films for television. She recently completed the three-part documentary series BLACK COFFEE for TVO, TFO and Historia. In 2003, she won the Gemini Award: Best History Program for the feature documentary UNDYING LOVE. Other documentaries to her credit include the IDA nominated film BEING DOROTHY, OKANADA, LONGSHOTS (Chris Award, Columbus, Hot Docs: Best Editing); THE LAST TRIP (Hot Docs: Certificate of Merit, Gemini nominee, Chalmers nominee, Chris Award); and the history series TOWARDS A PROMISED LAND (New York Festivals: Silver, Hot Docs nominee, Banff TV Festival nominee). Ina also co-executive produced/produced the docusoap FIRESTATION. She was also the executive producer/producer of the award-winning youth doc series (39 x 30) MY BRAND NEW LIFE/JE VIS TA VIE.
As a producer/executive producer of fiction, Ina has a number of credits including the feature film THE RETURN OF TOMMY TRICKER, the series of historical dramas TERRE D’ESPOIR, the short MOISE, the MOW LA FORCE DE L’AGE, and the teen series (26 x 30) VAMPIRE HIGH.
After close to a decade at Productions La Fete in Montreal, Ina recently formed her own company, Instinct Films. She is about to commence production on the family history series LA QUETE (26 x 30). Her development slate includes the alternative drama FAMILY MOTEL in co-production with the NFB, and a number of history-related projects including the feature film TWO WORLDS by Gerald Wexler (Margaret’s Museum), TIL WE DROP: Shopping and the Malling of our Planet and JEWS AND MONEY: A HISTORY, a new film by German Guttierez and Paolo Barzman.
Ina is past president of Montreal Women in Film (FCTVM) and served as chair for Women in Film and Television International (WIFTI). She has been on the boards of the Hot Docs Documentary Festival and DOC.GERMAN GUTTIEREZ, ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR/DOP
German Guttierez is an award-winning director and DOP whose work has taken him to the four corners of the globe. He recently completed the documentary WHO SHOT MY BROTHER? which won the Audience Choice Award at the Montreal New Film and Video Festival.
German has directed and shot many series including INSECTIA, AMERIQUE 500, JE VIS TA VIE and TECHNOPOLIS garnering awards including Geminis, Prix Gemaux and Golden Sheaf Awards.
As a documentary director, his work includes:
L’effet Boeuf (NFB)
Societes sous influence (NFB)
Le café a saveur equitable (Argus Films)
Systeme D
Variations sur un theme familier
Martin’s Inferno
Les loups et les GrizzliesMarc Gadoury is one of Canada’s leading DOPs, both in documentary and drama. In 2005, he won the CSC Award for Best photography in a Docudrama for The Unsexing of Emma Edmonds.
Other awards include:
Gemini - Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series
2003 - Water Marks
Gémeaux - Meilleure direction photographique-toutes catégories, vidéo
1992 - Bonjour ! Shalom!
2000 - Lumière des oiseaux en partenariat avec Carlos Ferrand
2002 - Maux d'amours en partenariat avec Laurent Beauchemin
His nominations include:
Gémeaux - Meilleure direction photographique vidéo
1991 - Contact
1993 - Amérique 500 : À la redécouverte du Nouveau Monde
1996 - Le Filet vide
1999 - Musique pour un siècle sourd
2001 - La Grande mouvée
Canadian Society Cinematographer Award – Documentary
2003 - Water Mark
Hot Docs
1996 - Le filet vide
Golden Sheaf Award - Meilleure vidéographie
1996 - Le Filet videHarold Crooks is the recipient of many awards, grants and fellowships, including a 2004 Leo Award for Best Screenwriter [Documentary] of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British Columbia; a Hand Hollow Writing Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts; Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Awards finalist; a National Documentary Film Award [Best Writing Category] at the 1996 Hot Docs! Festival; a 1989 Genie Award of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television; and a Fund for Investigative Journalism [Washington, DC] travel grant.
His documentary film credits include:
Co-writer of the narration of The Corporation [2003], whose awards include the Documentary Audience Award for World Cinema at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, the Joris Ivens Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam 2003, the Peoples’ Choice Awards at the Toronto and Vancouver International Film Festivals, the NFB Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Calgary International Film Festival, and the 2005 Genie Award.
Co-producer and co-writer of Bhopal: The Search for Justice [2004], with the participation of National Film Board for CBC’s “The Nature of Things” and Société Radio Canada’s “Decouverte.” To be broadcast on the Sundance Channel
Co-writer and co-producer of the Gemini-winning The World Stopped Watching [2003], with participation of the NFB and the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.
Co-producer and co-writer of The World is Watching [1989] Winner of a Genie, a Gold Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival and awards at the Melbourne, Nyon and Berlin film festivals as well as the Latin American Studies Association's 1989 Award of Merit and a Bronze Apple at the 1990 National Educational Film & Video Festival;
Co-writer and associate producer of The Champagne Safari [1995 Besides winning a Genie Award for best feature documentary, it also won a National Documentary Film Award (Best Writing Category) at the 1996 Hot Docs! Film Festival of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus and a Golden Gate Award;Howard Goldberg has been editing, directing and writing documentary and fiction films for the last twenty years. His most recent work, Being Dorothy, was featured at Hot Docs, the Margaret Mead Festival and was an IDA nominee: Best Feature Doc.
Howard’s student film Trendsetters premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the early 80’s. He also directed a series of short films (documentary and drama) for the series Videotour. One of these films, Metropolis was nominated for two Prix Gemaux: best short film and best editing. In 1988, his short, Meet Chagall, garnered prizes from the New York Art Directors “ Club and the Montreal Publicity Club (Coq Bronze). A few years later, Howard directed Moise, which received accolades at international festivals and got 2 Gemeaux nominations.
Howard has also been honoured for his work as an editor. In 1995, he won the Best Editing Award for Longshots at the Hot Docs. In 1998, he won Best Editing at the Musique Plus annual awards. Howard also shared a Gemini for Best Writing in a Documentary Series writing the documentary series The Cola Conquest. Howard has edited many award-winning documentary films including Undying Love, Towards a Promised Land, She Got Game and Just a Wedding (NFB).Freeworm (a.k.a. Vincent Letellier) is an environmentalist of the imagination whose organic, multiform style navigates the vast expanses of the sonic world. The Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist leads a constantly evolving musical project that integrates conventional instrumentation (guitar, bass, percussion, brass, etc.) with original digital constructs (programming, sound manipulation and a hefty bank of home-made samples). Combined with the contributions of the many musicians he’s met along the way, his is a unique palette with an ever-increasing variety of colours.
From his numerous excursions abroad, which includes Europe, Brazil and Vietnam, among others, Freeworm has returned with an even stronger desire to assume the diversity of his North American urban roots, and in particular, the multicultural character of his city, MontrealPart One, The Irresistible Bean
