Stefan Wodoslawsky

Last updated

Stefan Wodoslawsky (born 1951) is a Canadian film producer and actor. [1] Associated in his early career with the National Film Board of Canada, [2] he is most noted as coproducer with Roman Kroitor of the 1979 film Bravery in the Field , which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 52nd Academy Awards [3] and won the Genie Award for Best TV Drama Under 30 Minutes at the 1st Genie Awards. [4]

Wodoslawsky was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. In the 1980s, he also had a number of acting roles, beginning with Giles Walker's mockumentary trilogy The Masculine Mystique , 90 Days and The Last Straw . [5] He also starred in the 1988 drama film Something About Love , on which he was also a coproducer and cowriter. [6] In the same era, he was codirector with Tony Ianzelo of Give Me Your Answer True , a documentary film profiling actor Donald Sutherland. [2]

After leaving the National Film Board he joined the commercial production firm Allegro Films, working primarily on dramatic thriller and television films.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Sayles</span> American film director

John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). His film Men with Guns (1997) was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry.

The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards.

Roman Kroitor was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as a pioneer of Cinéma vérité, as the co-founder of IMAX, and as the creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic 3D animation system. He was also the original inspiration for The Force. His prodigious output garnered numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, three Cannes Film Festival awards, and two Oscar nominations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Don McKellar</span> Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director

Don McKellar is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.

The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1978. These honours were conducted annually, except in 1974 when a number of Quebec directors withdrew their participation and prompted a cancellation. In the 1970s they were also sometimes known as the Etrog Awards for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saul Rubinek</span> Canadian actor and director (born 1948)

Saul Hersh Rubinek is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright.

Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses (1999) and Fugitive Pieces (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific. He has also written several films.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicholas Campbell</span> Canadian actor and filmmaker

Nicholas Campbell is a Canadian film, television and voice actor and filmmaker, who won three Gemini Awards for acting. He is known for such films as Naked Lunch, Prozac Nation, New Waterford Girl and the television series Da Vinci's Inquest.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean-Marc Vallée</span> Canadian filmmaker (1963–2021)

Jean-Marc Vallée was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université de Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including Stéréotypes (1991), Les Fleurs magiques (1995), and Les Mots magiques (1998).

Gabriel Arcand is a Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand.

Richard Condie, is a Canadian animator, filmmaker, musician and voice actor. Condie is best known for his 1985 animated short The Big Snit at the National Film Board of Canada and has won six international awards for Getting Started in 1979. Condie lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Tony Ianzelo is a Canadian documentary director and cinematographer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vic Sarin</span> Canadian film director

Victor Sarin is an Indian-born Canadian/American film director, producer and screenwriter. His work as a cinematographer includes Partition, Margaret's Museum, Whale Music, Nowhere to Hide, Norman's Awesome Experience, and Riel. He also directed such projects as Partition, Left Behind, and Wind at My Back.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ron James (comedian)</span> Canadian stand-up comedian

Ron James is a Canadian stand-up comedian.

Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter.

90 Days is a 1985 Canadian comedy film directed by Giles Walker and written by Walker and David Wilson. The film stars Sam Grana and Stefan Wodoslawsky as Alex and Blue, two unlucky-in-love guys who are trying to find new girlfriends. The film also stars Fernanda Tavares as Laura, a woman with a business proposition for Alex to become a sperm donor, and Christine Pak as Hyang-Sook, a Korean woman whom Blue is considering from a mail-order bride service.

Michael Zelniker is a Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his performance as Red Rodney in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning film Bird (1988) and as Doug Alward in The Terry Fox Story (1983), for which he won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.

Saverio "Sam" Grana is a Canadian Academy Award-nominated television and film producer and screenwriter, most noted for the film Train of Dreams and the television miniseries The Boys of St. Vincent.

Something About Love is a Canadian drama film, directed by Tom Berry and released in 1988. The film stars Stefan Wodoslawsky as Wally Olynyk, a man returning home to Cape Breton Island after several years living in the United States, to reunite with his estranged father Stan as the older man begins to suffer from dementia.

Maruska Stankova was a Czech-Canadian actress and drama teacher. She was most noted for her performance in the film Dreams Beyond Memory, for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Genie Awards, and as a teacher of filmmaking workshops through the National Film Board of Canada.

References

  1. "Something About Love is something special". Montreal Gazette , May 12, 1989.
  2. 1 2 "Dogged pursuit yields fine film". Calgary Herald , November 1, 1987.
  3. "Special shows start Sunday". Richmond Review, January 23, 1981.
  4. "They dream of Genie". Vancouver Sun , March 20, 1980.
  5. "Easygoing comedy a Canadian-made hit". Ottawa Citizen , October 18, 1985.
  6. "Father knows best". Maclean's , December 12, 1988.