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Nik Sheehan
Born (1960-03-17) 17 March 1960 (age 64)
London, England
OccupationDirector

Nik Sheehan (born 17 March 1960) is a

AIDS. The film cited by world-renowned specialist Dr. Balfour Mount
as "the best film on the planet this year".

In 1995, he produced and directed Symposium, inspired by Plato’s classic and featuring multiple views of gay love as performed by Canadian artists and writers including Brad Fraser, Stan Persky, Patricia Rozema, Tomson Highway, Daniel MacIvor and others. Premiering at the Montreal World Film Festival, it was broadcast extensively by the CBC, and created national headlines.

God’s Fool (1997), shot in Morocco, tells the story of

Xtra![1]

Gemini Award in the category of Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series, and best original score by composer Edmund Eagan.[5] Sheehan was also nominated for a Canadian screenwriting award by the Writers Guild of Canada.[6]

His essay on the Toronto art group General Idea in the collection Queers Were Here[7] (Biblioasis 2016) was acclaimed in the Literary Review of Canada.[8]

In 2017, he made a series of video shorts documenting

LGBTQ
creators for national Xtra!

After moving from Toronto to Vancouver in 2013, Sheehan produced, co-wrote and directed (with Albert Nerenberg), the climate change documentary feature Who Farted?[9] for documentary Channel[10] (CBC). It was broadcast June 2020 and began streaming on CBC GEM[11] starting September 2020 in Canada. World distribution rights were sold to Syndicado.[12]

Sheehan has worked as a literary critic, essayist, and biographer, publishing in Montage,

POV, the National Post, Now, Toronto Life, Quill & Quire, Masthead and fab
.

Films (selection)

  • No Sad Songs (1985)
  • Symposium: Ladder of Love (1995)
  • God's Fool (1997)
  • The Drawing Master (2004)
  • FLicKeR
     (2008)
  • Who Farted?[13] (film) (2019)

Awards (selection)

  • 2008
    Hot Docs
    , Special Jury Prize – Best Canadian Feature Documentary (FLicKeR)
  • 2009
    Wroclaw, Poland) – Best Film in the International Films on Art Competition (FLicKeR)[14]

References

  1. ^ Scott Symons: Proud Life Archived 27 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Xtra!, 12 March 2009.
  2. ^ Geiger, John. "Chapel of Extreme Experience".
  3. ^ "Hot Docs 2008 Awards".
  4. ^ "Era New Horizons Film Festival 2009 competition results".
  5. ^ "Nominees by Category, the 24th Annual Gemini Awards". Archived from the original on 27 February 2012.
  6. ^ "2009 Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award".
  7. ISBN 978-1771960861
    .
  8. ^ "What Makes A Gay Icon?".
  9. ^ "Who Farted?".
  10. ^ "documentary Channel".
  11. ^ "Who Farted? on CBC GEM".
  12. ^ "Syndicado".
  13. ^ "Who Farted?". IMDb.
  14. ^ "FLicKeR wins Best Film at the Era New Horizons International Film Festival". news release. National Film Board of Canada. 4 August 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.

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