Jeth Weinrich

Jeth Weinrich is a Canadian music video director and documentary filmmaker. One of the most influential Canadian video directors of the 1990s, he is the only person ever to have won the Juno Award for Video of the Year three times. Two of those wins were for videos he directed for Jann Arden, "I Would Die for You" and "Good Mother", and the third was for Junkhouse's "Burned Out Car". He also directed videos for Chantal Kreviazuk, 54-40, The Rankin Family, Sonia Dada and Van Halen, among others.

In 2003, Weinrich began working on a documentary film about crack cocaine addiction, and became addicted to the drug himself when one of his interview subjects pulled out a crack pipe and invited him to try the drug. [ [http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story.html?id=c3c2fecf-276d-4ac4-9854-e1ea0fd22e54 "Through a lens, darkly"] , "Calgary Herald", February 17, 2007.] He spent three years addicted to the drug before going clean in 2006. His documentary, tentatively titled "1000 Days", is still in production for an expected 2008 release.

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