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Name
Nick Hector
Role
Film Editor
Awards
Gemini Award for Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series
Nominations
Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary
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Sturla Gunnarsson, Allan King, Steven Silver, Jennifer Baichwal, Tim Southam
Nick hector
Nick Hector is a DGC, CCE, HotDocs and multi-Gemini Award winning Canadian film editor, Gemini Award nominated sound editor, story editor, and Genie Award nominated producer.
Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini for editing King’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film"[1] and Gemini Award-winning Dying at Grace[2] – which the Toronto International Film Festival described as “one of the best films ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God [3]. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on Yvan Patry’s Hot Docs Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson’s Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary editing.[4]
Hector's credits include Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning Crimes of the Heart; Min Sook Lee’s Hot Docs "Best Canadian Feature" Hogtown[5]; and Allan King’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company.[6] He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner Monsoon.
In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries Wiebo's War, Thay - The Teacher, War Surgeon, Actuality and the award-winning El Chogui. He served as series producer for Birth Stories and Love is Not Enough and co-director of the CSA Award winning series War Story. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for Wiebo's War.
Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Canadian Cinema Editors honours society.
Filmography
How to Prepare for Prison (2016)
This Changes Everything (film) (2015)
War Story: Liberation (2014)
Monsoon (2014)
Wiebo's War (2011)
Force of Nature (2010)
Experimental Eskimos (2009)
Air India 182 (2008)
The Rise and Fall of the Grumpy Burger (2007)
EMPz 4 Life (2006)
Actuality (2006)
Memory (2005)
Hogtown (2004)
Crimes of the Heart (2003)
Dying at Grace (2003)
Inside Information: Stories from the War Zone (2002)
El Chogui (2001)
Hand of Fate (1999)
Dragons Egg (1998)
Drowning in Dreams (1997)
Chronicle of a Genocide (1996)
Hand of God (1995)
Winds of Memory (1992)
Nuit et silence (1990)
Forbidden Land (1989)
Awards and recognition
2017 Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Nominated - Best Documentary Editing - "How to Prepare for Prison"
2016 Directors Guild of Canada - Nominated - Best Documentary Editing - "This Changes Everything"
2016 Canadian Screen Awards - Nominated - Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program - "Liberation"
2015 Directors Guild of Canada - Nominated - Allan King Award - "Monsoon"
2015 Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Nominated - Best Documentary Editing - "Monsoon"
2013 Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Echoes"
2012 Directors Guild of Canada - Nominated - Allan King Award - "Wiebo's War"
2012 Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Nominated - Best Documentary Editing - "Wiebo's War"
2012 Genie Award - Nominated - Best Feature Documentary - "Wiebo's War" (as producer)
2011 Directors Guild of Canada - Winner - Allan King Award - "Force of Nature"
2011 Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Force of Nature"
2010 Directors Guild of Canada - Winner - Allan King Award - "Experimental Eskimos"
2009 Gemini Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Air India 182"
2009 Directors Guild of Canada - Winner - Allan King Award - "Air India 182"
2006 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing - "Memory"- Nominated
2006 Directors Guild of Canada Award - Best Documentary Team- "Memory" - Nominated
2005 Directors Guild of Canada Award - Best Documentary Team- "EMPz 4 Life" - Nominated
2004 Gemini Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Dying at Grace"
2003 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing "Inside Information"- Nominated
2001 Gemini Award for Best Editing in an Information Program "Birth Stories" - Nominated
1999 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing "The Dragon's Egg"- Nominated
1998 Gemini Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Chronicle of a Genocide"
1997 Prix Gemeaux - Meilleur montage documentaire - "Chronique d'un genocide" - Nominated
1996 HotDocs Award - Winner - Best Editing - "Hand of God"
1991 Prix Gemeaux - Meilleur montage documentaire - "Nuit et silence" - Nominated
1989 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound - "Electronic Jam" - Nominated
