Name Giles Walker Role Film director | Spouse Hannele Halm | |
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Awards Genie Award for Outstanding TV Drama Under 30 Minutes Nominations Genie Award for Best Motion Picture Movies Ordinary Magic, Blind Terror, 90 Days, Caddie Woodlawn, Tales From the Neverend Similar People Tyler Hynes, Mark Rendall, Adam Weissman, Edward Yankie, Victoria Sanchez | ||
'Monster' Giles Walker
Giles Walker is a Scottish-born Canadian film director.
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- Monster Giles Walker
- Giles Walker coursework UFO Report Movie
- Brief biography
- Partial filmography
- References
Giles Walker coursework UFO Report Movie
Brief biography
Giles Walker, born in 1946 in Dundee, Scotland, received a B.A. from the University of New Brunswick and a M.A. from Stanford University Film School in 1972. He joined the Canadian National Film Board soon after, directing documentaries, then switching to dramas in 1977. Bravery in the Field was nominated for a live-action short Oscar in 1979. The Masculine Mystique (directed with John N. Smith), the first of a trio of NFB movies dealing with issues of gender relations, showed Walker’s experimental side, working with non-professional actors and the technique of improvisation. The two other films in the series, however, moved closer to an easy, palatable Hollywood style – successfully in 90 Days but less so in The Last Straw. Perhaps Walker’s most successful fictional work is Princes in Exile, a film about a summer camp for children with cancer, notable for a delicate treatment of the subject and a moving lack of sentimentality.