- Paul Jay
Paul Jay is a
Canadian journalist andfilm director , and creator ofThe Real News . Jay was born and raised inToronto , [http://jfilm.org/paulbio/index2.html jfilm bio cover page ] ] and holds dual-citizenship with theUnited States .Film and television work
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Return to Kandahar " was a feature length documentary co-directed withNelofer Pazira , star of the movie "Kandahar". Although "Kandahar" was fictional, "Return to Kandahar" follows Pazira's return toAfghanistan in search of her childhood friend; her first attempt inspired the fictional movie. "RTK" won the Donald Brittain Gemini award for best social political documentary."Lost in Las Vegas" was a feature length documentary for A&E. "Equal parts hilarious, heroic and heartfelt... often surprising, occasionally inspiring, frequently hilarious... You've got to see this thing to believe it. It's so good." (Rob Salem, "
The Toronto Star "). Jay's "Hitman Hart: wrestling with shadows", a feature length documentary, was screened in 25 major festivals and won more than a dozen awards. It has been called "one of the most acclaimed Canadian films in years"("eye magazine"), "A tale as bizarre as Kafka and as tragic as Shakespeare" ("Ottawa Citizen") and "one of the best films of 1998"(Peter Plagens, art critic for "Newsweek "). "Hitman" was produced in cooperation with the National Film Board of Canada, TVOntario, The 'A' Channel, CTV, A&E, BBC's Storyville, and "La Sept/Arte"."Never-Endum-Referendum", also a feature length documentary, (CTV, SRC, Arte) was called "a moving, masterful piece of film-making about a tough subject". (Tony Atherton "Ottawa Citizen")
Jay was the creator and executive producer of
CBC Newsworld 's flagship debate program "counterSpin", for six seasons the prime time debate show about the news of the day.Other work includes "Justice Denied" (Turner), "The Life and Death of Owen Hart" (TVO, A&E), "Albanian Journey:End of an Era" (TVOntario, CBC Witness), "The Birth of Language" (TVOntario and Discovery U.S.), "Here's to the Cowboy" (CBC, Disney, London Weekend, Central TV). Jay exec-produced "Through Thick and Thin" (CBCNewsworld), "Machine Gun" (3x1 Discovery Canada&US), and "The Famine Within" (TVO). Jay was the co-creator and co-executive producer of Face Off, a nightly prime time debate program that ran four years on CBC Newsworld.
A past chair of the [http://www.docorg.ca/ Canadian Independent Film Caucus] (now called DOC), the main organization of documentary filmmakers in Canada, Jay is the founding chair of [http://www.hotdocs.ca/ Hot Docs!] , the Canadian international documentary film festival. He chaired the Hot Docs! board for its first five years.
Currently, he works as the main producer on his flagship news program
The Real News .References
External links
* [http://jfilm.org/ j films inc.]
* [http://www.therealnews.com TheRealNews]
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