Nick Hector

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Nick Hector
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Film Editor
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Years active1986 - present

Nick Hector is a British Canadian film producer and editor, [1] and professor of film production at the University of Windsor.

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Career

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" and Gemini Award-winning Dying at Grace, which the Toronto International Film Festival described as “one of the best ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God. 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.

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 Hogtown and Allan King’s Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company . 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 also 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. Most recently, Hector was awarded a Canadian Screen Award for editing the Canadian instalment of Ridley Scott's Life in a Day franchise Canada in a Day .

In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries The Perfect Story, Prey , Sharkwater Extinction , 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.

In 2018, Hector completed the movie Sharkwater Extinction after the death of Rob Stewart. [2]

Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, Canadian Cinema Editors, and British Film Editors and holds a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1989Electronic JamEditor, Sound EditorFinalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound
1991Nuit et silenceEditor, Sound EditorFinaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire
1996Hand of GodEditor HotDocs Award for Best Documentary Editing
1997Chronique d'un genocideEditorGemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire
1999The Dragon's EggEditorFinalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
2002El ChoguiProducer, EditorContra el Silencio todas las Voces (Mexico) Award for Best Documentary
La Festival Medias Nord-Sud (Switzerland) Award for Best Independent Film
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival Award for Best Documentary
San Francisco Latino Film Festival Award for Best in Festival
La Cinemafe Film Festival (New York) Special Jury Prize
2003Inside InformationEditorFinalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
2003 Dying at Grace EditorGemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team
2005 Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company EditorFinalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team
2006 EMPz 4 Life EditorFinalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team
2009 Air India 182 EditorGemini Award for Best Documentary Editing
2010Experimental EskimosEditorDirectors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award
2011 Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie EditorCanadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award
2012 Wiebo's War Producer, EditorFinalist - Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King
Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
2013EchoesEditorCanadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
2014 War Story Co-director, EditorFinalist - Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing
2015 Monsoon EditorPolly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film
Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award
2016 This Changes Everything EditorFinalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing
2017 Canada in a Day EditorCanadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing
2017UnfracturedEditorFinalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing
2017How to Prepare for PrisonEditorFinalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
2018 Sharkwater Extinction Producer, EditorCanadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing
2019 Prey Co-producer, EditorHotDocs Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature
Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing
2020Fight to the FinishCo-producer, EditorFinalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary
2022 The Perfect Story Co-producer, EditorBest Canadian Documentary - Calgary International Film Festival
Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Program
2023The Man Who Stole Einstein's BrainEditor, Story EditorFinalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary
Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Film Editing

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References

  1. Canadian Who's Who 2022. N.p., Grey House Publishing, 2021.
  2. "Sharkwater Extinction finished by Windsor professor after Rob Stewart's death". CBC News Windsor, August 29, 2018.