Ken Myhr is a Canadian musician and composer. He is most noted for his work on the film The Accountant of Auschwitz , for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Music in a Non-Fiction Program or Series at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. [1]
Myhr first became noted as a session musician, most notably as a guitarist for Jane Siberry [2] and Cowboy Junkies. [3] He had his first credit as a composer on the 1994 short film Arrowhead , and his first feature film credit on the 1996 film Not Me! (Sous-sol). [4] His later credits have included the films Project Grizzly , The Herd , Herman's House, The Real Inglorious Bastards , The World Before Her , Driving with Selvi and Migrant Dreams .
He was previously a Canadian Screen Award nominee at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 for his work on The Market, and a four-time Gemini Award nominee for his work on Geologic Journey II: The Pacific Rim, Love at the Twilight Motel, The Real Sherlock Holmes and Herman's House.
Jane Siberry is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels". She performed the theme song to the television series Maniac Mansion. She has released material under the name Issa – an identity which she used formally between 2006 and 2009.
Black Eyed Man is the fourth studio album by Cowboy Junkies, released in 1992. The album continues the band's evolution from a spare country blues style to a more mainstream country rock style.
Pale Sun, Crescent Moon is the fifth studio album by Canadian country rock band Cowboy Junkies, released in 1993. It was the band's last album of new material for RCA Records, although a live album and a greatest hits compilation were subsequently released on the label. Canadian guitarist Ken Myhr appears on every track on this album.
The Speckless Sky is an album by Jane Siberry. It was Siberry's highest-charting album on the Canadian charts and contains her biggest Top 40 hit, "One More Colour". The album's second single, "Map of the World ", was also a hit on Canada's adult contemporary charts.
Bound By the Beauty is a 1989 album by Jane Siberry. It received better reviews than her previous album, The Walking, and the title track received more extensive radio airplay than Siberry had seen since "One More Colour" in 1985.
Jacob Daniel Tierney is a Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for playing Eric in Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–1992) and as the co-writer, director, and executive producer of the sitcom Letterkenny (2016–present), in which he also plays Pastor Glen.
The Juno Awards of 1994, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 20 March 1994 in Toronto at a ceremony in the O'Keefe Centre. Roch Voisine was the host for the ceremonies, which were taped that afternoon for broadcast that evening on CBC Television.
The Top of His Head is a soundtrack by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, of the 1989 Canadian comedy-drama film, The Top of His Head. Frith wrote and composed all the music, with the exception of "This Old Earth", which was written and sung by Jane Siberry, and a cover of "The Way You Look Tonight". The music was recorded at l'Office National du Film, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in August and September 1988, and was released on LP and CD in 1989 by the Belgian independent label, Crammed Discs. The CD release contained two extra tracks, "Driving to the Train" and "The Long Drive".
Shadows Wake Me is the first studio album by Canadian singer Damhnait Doyle, released in 1996 on the indie label Latitude Records, then later EMI Music Canada. The album was produced by guitarist Ken Myhr, who previously worked with such artists as Jane Siberry and Cowboy Junkies. Although a novice songwriter, Doyle co-wrote many songs on the album, some with Myhr, and others with Chris Tait, Tim Welch, David Gray, and Anne Bourne.
Patrice Vermette is a Canadian production designer/art director. He is most noted for his work on the films C.R.A.Z.Y., for which he won both the Genie Award for Best Art Direction/Production Design at the 26th Genie Awards and the Jutra Award for Best Art Direction at the 8th Jutra Awards, and Dune, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Production Design at the 94th Academy Awards.
Roger Anthony Lemke is a Canadian television and film actor, best known for portraying Three on Syfy's science-fiction drama Dark Matter.
Jonathan (Jon) Goldsmith is a Canadian musician, arranger, producer, and composer. Best known as a composer of film and television scores, he has also been associated with various projects as a musician, including Nick Buzz and the Art of Time Ensemble, and production of albums by artists including Bruce Cockburn, Jane Siberry, Martin Tielli, Hugh Marsh, Bourbon Tabernacle Choir and Sarah Slean.
Pierre Gang is a Canadian film and television director, best known for his 1996 feature film Sous-sol and the television miniseries More Tales of the City and Further Tales of the City.
"Calling All Angels" is a song by the Canadian singer/songwriter Jane Siberry. It was featured on the soundtrack for Wim Wenders 1991 film, Until the End of the World, and in the final scene and on the soundtrack for the film Pay It Forward, as well as in episode 1, season 4 of the television series The Fosters and in Season 1 of The Chair on Netflix. It also plays over the end credits of the 2021 film The Many Saints of Newark.
Pedro Pires is a Canadian film director. His short film Danse Macabre won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 30th Genie Awards, his short film Hope was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012, and he was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Director at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Triptych, which he co-directed with Robert Lepage.
Joe Cobden is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. Joe started performing at age 10 as a street vaudevillian, touring festivals worldwide. In 1996, at age 17, Joe enrolled at Concordia University’s Theatre Performance Programme, in Montréal.
Thomas Burstyn, sometimes credited as Tom Burstyn, is a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. He is most noted for his work on the 1995 film Magic in the Water, for which he won the Genie Award for Best Cinematography at the 16th Genie Awards. He was nominated in the same category on two other occasions, at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for The Tadpole and the Whale , and at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for The Lotus Eaters.
Allen Smith is a Canadian cinematographer. He is most noted for his work on the film Seducing Doctor Lewis , for which he won both the Genie Award for Best Cinematography at the 24th Genie Awards and the Jutra Award for Best Cinematography at the 6th Jutra Awards.
Jane Tattersall is a Canadian sound editor, most noted as a six-time Genie Award and Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Sound Editing.
Sophie Leblond is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted for her work on the films Soft Shell Man , for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 4th Jutra Awards in 2002, and Alexander Odyssey , for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.