Andrew Rai Berzins

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Andrew Rai Berzins is a Canadian film and television writer. He is most noted as cowriter with Andrew Wreggitt of the television film Borealis , for which they won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. [1]

Berzins published a short story collection, Cerberus, with Goose Lane Editions in 1994. [2] The following year Holly Dale directed Berzins's first screenplay, Blood and Donuts , [3] for which Berzins received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996. [4] In the same era, he was a writer for the television series Straight Up . [5]

He received three Gemini Award nominations for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series in the 2000s at the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001 for Scorn , [6] at the 18th Gemini Awards in 2003 for Chasing Cain II: Face, [7] and at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004 for Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story. [8]

He has also been a two-time WGC Screenwriting Award winner, in 1997 for Straight Up and in 2001 for Scorn, [9] and was a nominee in 2000 for Cold Squad and in 2006 for Beowulf & Grendel .

His other credits have included the television series North of 60 and Tom Stone , and the documentary film Passage .

References

  1. ↑ "2014 Canadian Screen Awards for Drama, Children’s or Youth, Comedy and Variety – winners". Chino Kino, March 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ Stephen Smith, "Hell gets personal in short story tome". Toronto Star , August 13, 1994.
  3. ↑ Marc Horton, "A vampire and doughnut film with suprisingly [sic] few holes". Edmonton Journal , November 11, 1995.
  4. ↑ "Over-the-edge Canadian films poised for Genie nod". Canadian Press, November 24, 1996.
  5. ↑ Sid Adilman, "Teenagers' lives going under the microscope: New CBC drama probes gritty reality of teens' hopes, fears". Toronto Star , October 22, 1995.
  6. ↑ Alex Strachan, "Geminis tip hat to B.C. productions: Local shows Da Vinci's Inquest, Outer Limits and Cold Squad score big; Nuremberg trials miniseries garners 12 nominations". Vancouver Sun , September 18, 2001.
  7. ↑ Alex Strachan, "The Eleventh Hour leads Gemini field". Victoria Times-Colonist , September 10, 2003.
  8. ↑ Alex Strachan, "Geminis too Toronto-centric". Vancouver Sun , December 11, 2004.
  9. ↑ "Da Vinci, Made In Canada writers win awards". Telegraph-Journal , April 10, 2001.
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