Titus Heckel

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Titus Heckel is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. [1] He is most noted for his 2020 film Chained , for which he received three Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nominations at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2020, for Best Screenplay in a Canadian Film, Best British Columbia Film and One to Watch. [2]

His first feature film, With Child, was released in 2014. [3] He also wrote and directed the short film The Better Man (2012), and wrote the television thriller film A Deadly Vendetta (2018).

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