Gerald Wexler

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Gerald Wexler is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. He is most noted as cowriter with Mort Ransen of the 1995 film Margaret's Museum , for which they won the Genie Award for Best Screenplay at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996. [1]

His other credits have included episodes of the television series Urban Angel , The Smoggies , Are You Afraid of the Dark? and The Hunger , and the television films Manuel, le fils emprunté [2] and St. Urbain's Horseman . [3]

He was born and raised in Outremont, Quebec, and is fluently bilingual. [2]

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References

  1. "Margaret's Museum big winner at Genies". Halifax Daily News , January 15, 1996.
  2. 1 2 "French TV movie speaks in many tongues". Montreal Gazette , February 3, 1991.
  3. "Richler book finally makes it to TV miniseries status". Windsor Star , September 19, 2007.