Tom Radford

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Tom Radford CM (born March 12, 1946) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta. [1] A cofounder with Anne Wheeler and P. J. Reese of the Filmwest Associates studio, Radford is most noted for films on the history, culture and politics of Western Canada. [1]

Born in Edmonton, Radford was the son of diarist Gertrude Hogg and the grandson of a former editor of the Edmonton Journal . [1] He studied Canadian history at the University of Alberta, but left halfway through his master's program to begin working on his first documentary film, Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer. [1] The film won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best of Festival at the Yorkton Film Festival in 1973; [2] in 1975, he won both Best of Festival and Best Director at Yorkton for The Man Who Chooses the Bush. [3]

In 1980 Radford left Filmwest to launch the Northwest Studio of the National Film Board of Canada, serving as executive producer of the division until 1985. [1] He was subsequently a founding partner in the National Screen Institute, and in the commercial firms Film Frontiers, Great North Productions and Clearwater Media. [1]

His other films have included Land (1971), [1] Death of a Delta (1972), [1] Every Saturday Night (1973), The Forests and Vladimir Krajina (1978), Life After Hockey (1989), [1] The Buffalo Ground (1995), [1] Tickling the Dragon's Tail (1999), [1] The Honour of the Crown (2000), Arctic Dreamer: The Lonely Quest of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (2003), [4] Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta (2008) [1] and Lost Years: A People's Struggle for Justice (2011), as well as episodes of the television documentary series West , Pacificanada , The Nature of Things and A Scattering of Seeds .

He won the Gemini Award for Best Science and Nature Documentary at the 26th Gemini Awards in 2011 for "Code Breakers", a Nature of Things episode he produced in collaboration with director Niobe Thompson; [5] he also previously won Gemini Awards in 1988 for Foster Child and in 2004 for Arctic Dreamers, [6] and received nominations for Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands and The Perfect Runner.

He was inducted as a member of the Order of Canada in 2020. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Tom Murray, "Tom Radford". The Canadian Encyclopedia , March 22, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Edmonton film chosen best at Yorkton festival". Regina, Saskatchewan: Regina Leader-Post. October 22, 1973. p. 2. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  3. ↑ Humphries, Don (October 27, 1975). "Film board shows dominate film festival". Regina, Saskatchewan: Regina Leader-Post. p. 7. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Documentary on discoverer of Arctic "blond Eskimos" makes TV debut". Canadian Press, January 29, 2004.
  5. ↑ Fish Griwkowsky, "Locally produced doc wins two Geminis". Edmonton Journal , September 1, 2011.
  6. ↑ Olenka Melnyk, "Study of last great Arctic explorer yields Gemini for filmmaker". Edmonton Journal , December 20, 2004.
  7. ↑ Josee St-Onge, "'Such a surprise': Edmonton filmmaker awarded Order of Canada". CBC News Edmonton, November 27, 2020.
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