Stephen Zoller

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Stephen Zoller (born 1952) is a Canadian film and television writer and producer. [1] He is most noted for the film Metal Messiah , for which he received a Canadian Film Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 28th Canadian Film Awards in 1977. [2]

He began his career as a partner with Tibor Takács in the independent film studio Mega-Media Productions. [3] He initially wrote Metal Messiah as a stage musical in 1975, before working with Takács to readapt it as a film. [4]

Zoller and Takács then collaborated on the feature film The Tomorrow Man (1981), also known as 984: Prisoner of the Future. [5] Their 1983 short film Snow was a Genie Award nominee for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984. [6]

He later wrote other screenplays including Office Party and Windsor Protocol , and episodes of the television series Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Charlie Jade .

References

  1. Robert Paton, "Stephen Zoller: His quiet revolution". Cinema Canada , April 1980.
  2. Frank Daley, "Omens good for film awards show". Ottawa Journal , November 19, 1977.
  3. Robert Martin, "New TV movie is based on London work". The Globe and Mail , July 4, 1979.
  4. "Metal Messiah Review". canuxploitation.com. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  5. Lloyd Wasser, "Tibor Takács' The Tomorrow Man". Cinema Canada , July 1981.
  6. Carole Corbeil, "Does anybody care about Genie shorts and documentaries?". The Globe and Mail , March 16, 1984.