Jerry Ciccoritti

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Jerry Ciccoritti
Jerry Ciccoritti at Canadian Film Centre 25th Anniversary Celebration in Los Angeles, March 20, 2013
Born (1956-08-05) August 5, 1956 (age 67)
Toronto, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
EducationYork University
Occupation(s)Filmmaker and theater director

Jerry Ciccoritti (born August 5, 1956) is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him a successful director.

Biography

Born in Toronto, Ciccoritti became active in amateur drama in high school and was one of the founders of Buddies in Bad Times theatre in 1978 and of the Rhubarb Theatre Festival in 1979. He attended the film program at York University but dropped out to work in the burgeoning Toronto film industry.

He co-produced, co-wrote, and directed the low-budget horror film Psycho Girls (1985). Several other genre films followed, eventually leading to work in episodic television and television movies. Ciccoritti was instrumental in developing the TV series Catwalk (1992) and Straight Up (1996) and began a secondary career as a director of big-budget television movies and miniseries with Net Worth (1995), a drama about hockey player Ted Lindsay's battles with the National Hockey League on behalf of his fellow players. Another popular film of Ciccoritti's that deals with Canadian history is Trudeau.

The director has also depicted the Italian-Canadian experience, with films like

Lives of the Saints. His theatrical release Blood
(2004) was a well-received black comedy shot in one continuous take. More recently, in 2012, Ciccoritti co-wrote, produced and directed the feature The Resurrection of Tony Gitone, a comedy set in Toronto's Little Italy.

Films

His credits include the theatrical films

situation comedy Schitt's Creek. In 2016, he directed the television miniseries 21 Thunder, which was expected to debut on CBC in 2017.[1]

His most recent film, Lie Exposed, was released in 2019.

Awards

Ciccoritti has been nominated for and won several Gemini Awards, including a record number of wins for Best Director (Television). He won the inaugural Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for the CBC TV movie John A.: Birth of a Country.[2]

Blood was nominated for a

Best Original Screenplay at the 25th Genie Awards,[3] and Ciccoritti was also nominated for a Directors Guild of Canada award for the movie.[4]

Ciccoritti has also won three awards from the Directors Guild of Canada.[5]

Quotes

"I hate to be the guy who keeps the old saw going of comparing us to the States, but if you direct a whole bunch of really quality MOWs for HBO and you get a bunch of Emmys, your phone is ringing off the hook. Everybody wants to work with you. Up here it just doesn't happen. I don't know why."[6]

References

  1. ^ JERRY CICCORITTI Director ON - Ontario District Council, DGC
  2. ^ "CBC's Rick Mercer Report snags 3 Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News. February 28, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  3. ^ "Nominees in top categories for Genie Awards". Toronto Star, February 9, 2005.
  4. Kamloops Daily News
    , August 5, 2005.
  5. ^ "Cronenberg, McDonald among DOC winners". The Globe and Mail. June 10, 2003.
  6. ^ Vamos, Peter. "The many wins of one Jerry Ciccoritti". Playback, 2003.

External links

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