Mark Sawers
Mark Sawers is a Canadian film director and writer.Hate Mail at the 14th Genie Awards,[4] Shoes Off! at the 19th Genie Awards[5] and Lonesome Joe at the 24th Genie Awards.[6]
Shoes Off also won the Canal+ Award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[7]
As a television director, his credits have included segments of The Kids in the Hall, and episodes of Alienated,[8] Alice, I Think, About a Girl, The Assistants, Mr. Young and Anticlimax.
From Vancouver, British Columbia, Sawers is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.[9]
Filmography
- Absolute Trash: A Recycling Story - 1980
- The Middle Child - 1989
- Stroke - 1992
- Hate Mail- 1993
- Shoes Off! - 1998
- Lonesome Joe - 2002
- Exposed - 2010
- Camera Shy - 2012
- No Men Beyond This Point - 2015
- Call from Josie - 2017
References
- ^ "A short life in Cannes : Vancouver film-maker Mark Sawers enjoys acclaim at the world's most famous film festival -- and obscurity at home. That's the price he pays for making short films". Vancouver Sun, May 21, 1999.
- ^ "Director Mark Sawers explores extinction in humourous [sic] No Men Beyond This Point". The Georgia Straight, September 23, 2015.
- ^ "French-Canadian films steal Genie show: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch leads the pack with 11 nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 1992.
- ^ "Genie nominations". Calgary Herald, October 20, 1993.
- Halifax Daily News, December 8, 1998.
- CanWest News Service, April 29, 2004.
- ^ "Belgian movie wins top prize at Cannes ; Toronto's Egoyan misses ceremony when film shut out". Toronto Star, May 24, 1999.
- Victoria Times-Colonist, September 4, 2003.
- ^ "Film-maker Mark Sawers tastes big time in Cannes". Vancouver Sun, May 12, 1993.
External links
- Mark Sawers at IMDb