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William Phillips (director)

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Years active
  
1997 - Present

Name
  
William Phillips

Role
  
Film director


Occupation
  
Film director Screenwriter

Education
  
Ryerson University, University of Toronto

Nominations
  
Canadian Comedy Award for Multimedia / Best Direction in a Feature

Movies
  
Gunless, Foolproof, Treed Murray

Similar
  
Joris Jarsky, James Allodi, Alex Zahara, Kristin Booth, Callum Keith Rennie

William Phillips is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a bachelor of science, Phillips studied film at Ryerson University. Phillips then ran a film production company entitled Grandview Products and worked on the second-unit of the film Cube. After directing two short films, Milkman and Deep Cut, Phillips wrote and directed his first feature film in 2001, Treed Murray. The film earned five Genie Awards nominations including Best Motion Picture. Williams has since directed two more major Canadian films, Foolproof and Gunless.

Selected filmography

  • Milkman (1997, short film)
  • Deep Cut (1998, short film)
  • Treed Murray (2001)
  • Foolproof (2003)
  • Gunless (2010)
  • References

    William Phillips (director) Wikipedia