Nick Hector
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Nick Hector is a Canadian film editor.
Hector is a ten-time Gemini Award
http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?nname=nick+hector&winonly=0&awards=0&rtype=1&curstep=4&submit.x=25&submit.y=12 nominee. Hector collaborated with legendary Canadian filmmaker Allan King
and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini for editing Allan King
’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film"http://filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=419&navid=46 and Gemini Award-winning Dying at Gracehttp://filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=419&navid=46 – which the Toronto International Film Festival
described as “one of the best films ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs
"Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry
’s Hand of God http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Hot_Docs_Canadian_International_Documentary_Festival/1996. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on Yvan Patry
’s Hot Docs
Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson
’s Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary editing.http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm
Some of Hector's numerous credits include Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning Crimes of the Heart; Min Sook Lee’s Hot Docs
"Best Canadian Feature" Hogtownhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-132677054.html; and Allan King
’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company.http://www.topten.ca/content/thelist/memoryformax.asp He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki
, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking.
In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries Wiebo's War
, Thay - The Teacher, War Surgeon, Actuality and the award-winning El Chogui. He served as series producer for Birth Stories and Love is Not Enough.
Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada
and the Canadian Cinema Editors
honours society. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Hector is a ten-time Gemini Award
Gemini Award
The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are...
http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?nname=nick+hector&winonly=0&awards=0&rtype=1&curstep=4&submit.x=25&submit.y=12 nominee. Hector collaborated with legendary Canadian filmmaker Allan King
Allan King
Allan Winton King, OC was a Canadian film director.-Life:During the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver...
and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini for editing Allan King
Allan King
Allan Winton King, OC was a Canadian film director.-Life:During the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver...
’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film"http://filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=419&navid=46 and Gemini Award-winning Dying at Gracehttp://filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=419&navid=46 – which the Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
described as “one of the best films ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs
Hot Docs
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference, and market, held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
"Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry
Yvan Patry
Yvan Patry was a Québécois documentary filmmaker.Yvan was born in Iroquois Falls, Ontario.During the 1970s he worked as a professor at Montmorency College in Laval, Quebec, where he produced several educational films....
’s Hand of God http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Hot_Docs_Canadian_International_Documentary_Festival/1996. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on Yvan Patry
Yvan Patry
Yvan Patry was a Québécois documentary filmmaker.Yvan was born in Iroquois Falls, Ontario.During the 1970s he worked as a professor at Montmorency College in Laval, Quebec, where he produced several educational films....
’s Hot Docs
Hot Docs
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference, and market, held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson
Sturla Gunnarsson
Sturla Gunnarsson is a Canadian film director.Gunnarsson was born in Iceland in 1951. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his parents when he was seven years old. As he grew up he became interested in filmmaking and went to the University of British Columbia where he completed...
’s Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary editing.http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm
Some of Hector's numerous credits include Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning Crimes of the Heart; Min Sook Lee’s Hot Docs
Hot Docs
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference, and market, held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
"Best Canadian Feature" Hogtownhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-132677054.html; and Allan King
Allan King
Allan Winton King, OC was a Canadian film director.-Life:During the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver...
’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company.http://www.topten.ca/content/thelist/memoryformax.asp He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki
David Suzuki
David Suzuki, CC, OBC is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department of the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001...
, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19, 2010. The opening night gala presented Score: A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film. Last Night closed the festival on September 19.2010 TIFF included...
, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking.
In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries Wiebo's War
Wiebo's War
Wiebo's War is a 2011 Canadian documentary about accused eco-terrorist Wiebo Ludwig, directed by David York.Ludwig was first approached by York in 2008. Filming began in late 2008 and continued into 2010, with York living as a guest in the isolated Ludwig family compound in the community of Trickle...
, Thay - The Teacher, War Surgeon, Actuality and the award-winning El Chogui. He served as series producer for Birth Stories and Love is Not Enough.
Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada
Directors Guild of Canada
The Directors Guild of Canada is a Canadian labour union, founded in 1962, which represents more than 3,700 professionals from 48 different occupations in the Canadian film and television industry. The DGC represents directors, assistant directors, location managers, production assistants and...
and the Canadian Cinema Editors
Canadian Cinema Editors
Canadian Cinema Editors is an professional association of film editors, founded in 2007. The non-profit organization promotes picture editing in television, film and new media.- 2011 C.C.E. Award Winners : Best Editing in Feature Length Dramatic...
honours society. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Filmography
- Wiebo's War (2011)
- Force of Nature (2010)
- Thay - The Teacher (2010)
- Experimental Eskimos (2009)
- Air India 182 (2008)
- The Rise and Fall of the Grumpy Burger (2007)
- EMPz 4 Life (2006)
- Actuality (2006)
- Memory (2005)
- Hogtown (2004)
- Crimes of the Heart (2003)
- Dying at Grace (2003)
- Inside Information: Stories from the War Zone (2002)
- El Chogui (2001)
- Divorce What I See (2001)
- Hand of Fate (1999)
- Dragons Egg (1998)
- Drowning in Dreams (1997)
- Chronicle of a Genocide (1996)
- Hand of God (1995)
- Winds of Memory (1992)
- Nuit et silence (1990)
- Forbidden Land (1989)
Awards and recognition
- 2011 Directors Guild of Canada - Winner - Allan King Award - "Force of Nature"
- 2011 Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Force of Nature"
- 2010 Directors Guild of Canada - Winner - Allan King Award - "Experimental Eskimos"
- 2009 Gemini Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Air India 182"
- 2009 Directors Guild of Canada - Winner - Allan King Award - "Air India 182"
- 2006 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing - "Memory"- Nominated
- 2006 Directors Guild of Canada Award - Best Documentary Team- "Memory" - Nominated
- 2005 Directors Guild of Canada Award - Best Documentary Team- "EMPz 4 Life" - Nominated
- 2004 Gemini Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Dying at Grace"
- 2003 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing "Inside Information"- Nominated
- 2001 Gemini Award for Best Editing in an Information Program "Birth Stories" - Nominated
- 1999 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing "The Dragon's Egg"- Nominated
- 1998 Gemini Award - Winner - Best Documentary Editing - "Chronicle of a Genocide"
- 1997 Prix Gemeaux - Meilleur montage documentaire - "Chronique d'un genocide" - Nominated
- 1996 HotDocs Award - Winner - Best Editing - "Hand of God"
- 1991 Prix Gemeaux - Meilleur montage documentaire - "Nuit et silence" - Nominated
- 1989 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound - "Electronic Jam" - Nominated
External links
- Nick Hector at the Internet Movie Database
- Zamasti Films http://web.mac.com/zamastifilms/Site/zamasti.html
- Nick Hector at the Canadian Awards Database http://www.academy.ca/hist/history.cfm?nname=Nick+Hector&winonly=0&awards=0&rtype=1&curstep=4&submit.x=0&submit.y=0