Stephen Low is a Canadian film director and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 who works extensively in the IMAX

IMAX

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 film format. Based in Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

Quebec

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, Low has directed numerous film documentaries including Titanica (1992), Beavers (1988), The Last Buffalo (1990),Across the Sea of Time, Super Speedway

Super Speedway

Super Speedway is a 1997 documentary racing film chronicling one man's quest to get his new Champ Car Lola chassis up to speed, and another's goal of rebuilding an old 1964 roadster once driven by the legendary Mario Andretti. The film was directed by renowned IMAX director Stephen Low and...

, Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea is a 2003 documentary film directed by Stephen Low in the IMAX format about undersea volcanoes.-Production:Richard Lutz served as Principal Investigator and Lutz and Peter Rona served as Science Directors of the film, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and...

(2003) and most recently, Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag is an IMAX film centered around the experiences of a USAF F-15 Eagle fighter pilot, then-Captain John Stratton, who wants to be professionally successful as a fighter pilot. It chronicles his experience during USAF Red Flag training at Nellis AFB, a simulated air...

(2004). The latter film stars Captain John Stratton

John Stratton (Air Force)

John Stratton is a former American soccer defender and currently an active duty U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot. Stratton played one season in the A-League....

, Major Robert Novotny and Major Sam Morgan, who are all US Air Force pilots. Beavers is the most successful Canadian film ever made. Costing under two million dollars to create, it has earned over $80 million.

Son of animator and documentary film maker Colin Low

Colin Low (filmmaker)

Colin Archibald Low, CM, RCA is a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker.Born in Cardston, Alberta, Low attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Calgary Institute of Technology, now known as the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology...

, Stephen Low was born in Ottawa

Ottawa

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 and raised in Montreal. He attended Lakehead University

Lakehead University

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 in Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, graduating in 1974. He began his career with the National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...

 about 1979 after four years spent in Newfoundland as a cameraman and editor. A brief daliance with Hollywood filmmaking convinced him to stick with documentaries: "Hollywood plays with toys," he said, "they never get close to the real thing."

Among his projects as director at the NFB were Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980) and Next Generation

Next Generation

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(1982) (both films are about the Challenger

Bombardier Challenger 600

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 aircraft), and The Defender (1988). He wrote a short film, Acting Classes (1980), directed by John N. Smith

John N. Smith

John N. Smith is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He began his career making documentary and short films before moving on to feature films and then finally working primarily in television. His work has been nominated in the Academy Awards, Genie Awards, and Gemini Awards, but has only...

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His company is called The Stephen Low Company, established in 1985.