Daniel Cross (filmmaker)

Daniel Cross (filmmaker)

Daniel Cross a Canadian documentary filmmaker, producer and activist whose films deal with social justice.

He is co-founder of EyeSteelFilm with fellow director/producer Mila Aung-Thwin. He is the president of the company. He is also founder of Homeless Nation, a non-profit internet endeavor that started in 2006 and has become a Canadian national collective voice by and for Canada's homeless population.

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Career

Cross, the multi-disciplined award-winning director made the films "The Street: A Film with the Homeless" and "S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic", where hundreds of homeless people from Montreal shared their many, amazing stories with him. Out of the movie, came the idea of a forum where these stories would not be lost and where Canada's homeless community could share their stories and refuse to be ignored. Both films received theatrical distribution, international broadcast and critical acclaim

Cross also has experience in TV broadcast, having directed and produced the Gemini nominated "Too Colourful for the League" and "Chairman George" on the stations CTV, BBC's Storyville and TV 2 (Denmark).[1]

Chairman George won awards at the AFI/Silverdocs and at Guangzhou Documentary Festival.

He was the executive producer of the internationally acclaimed Up the Yangtze, about a pleasure cruise through the devastation the world's largest hydro-electric dam caused.[2]

In addition to making films, Daniel is active in the film community, serving on the Boards of CFTPA , Observatoire du Documentaire and DOC (formerly CIFC).[.[3] He also teaches film production at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Previously he also taught at University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Awards and Participations

  • Trailblazer award at MIPDOC in France
  • In 2006, he won the Golden Sheaf Award at Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival for Chairman George alongside Mila Aung-Thwin

He also serves as board member of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and the "Documentary Organization of Canada".

See also

References

  1. ^ Biography on Documentary Educational Resources (DER) site
  2. ^ Biography on EyeSteelFilm website
  3. ^ Biography page on NFB site

External links

v · d · eEyeSteelFilm
Founders
Daniel Cross  • Mila Aung-Thwin
Directors
Mila Aung-Thwin  • Laura Bari  • Richard Boyce • Yung Chang • Daniel Cross  • Eric "Roach" Denis • Lixin Fan • Brett Gaylor  • Mitchell Kezin • Omar Majeed • Halima Ouardiri
Documentaries
The Street: A Film with the Homeless (1997)  • Too Colourful for the League (2001)  • S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic (2001)  • Music for a Blue Train (2002)  • Bone (2002)  • RoachTrip (2003)  • Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive (2004)  • Chairman George (2005)  • Punk the Vote! (2006)  • Up the Yangtze (2007)  • RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008) • Antoine (2008) • Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (2009) • Last Train Home (2009)

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