Ken Girotti

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Ken Girotti
NationalityCanadian
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Ken Girotti is a Canadian television director who was nominated for a 2006 Gemini Award in the category "Best Direction in a Dramatic Series" for the TV series ReGenesis .

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Career

He was director of the 2008 television film Mayerthorpe , [1] for which he won a Directors Guild of Canada award [2] and was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 23rd Gemini Awards in 2008. [3]

He directed episode 9 of the first season of Supernatural . [4] He directed episodes 3 and 4 of the second season of Vikings in 2014. [5]

He was a producer on the series Anne with an E . [6] For Pure he was a season second two director and also served as a second season executive director in 2018. [7] He directed an episode of the drug trafficking drama Pure in 2019. [8] He was a director and consulting producer for Fortunate Son . [9]

As director

Girotti has directed one, two or more episodes of:

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References

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  2. "Directors Guild honours Cronenberg". Victoria Times-Colonist , November 9, 2008.
  3. Alex Strachan, "Mayerthorpe gets seven Gemini nods; CTV's retelling of RCMP tragedy up for best TV movie". Edmonton Journal , August 27, 2008.
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