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John Walker Honoured with 2018 Masters Award

John Walker on hand to receive the 2018 Masters Award at the Canadian Society of Cinematographers 61st annual awards gala in Toronto.

John Walker was recently awarded at the Canadian Society of Cinematographers 61st annual awards gala with the 2018 Masters Award. This award recognizes the recipient’s outstanding contribution to the art of cinematography.

The award gala, held this year in Toronto, celebrates Canadian cinematographers for their exceptional talent and contributions to Canadian cinematography. John Walker has received many awards over his career from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, including Best Documentary Photography for Chambers Tracks & Gestures and Men of the Deeps.

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John Walker Films Featured at 2018 Hot Docs Focus On Retrospective

Hot Docs will pay tribute to filmmaker John Walker with this year’s Focus On retrospective, an annual program showcasing the work of a significant Canadian filmmaker. Hot Docs will screen a selection of Walker’s films in the Focus On program during the 25th annual Festival, April 26 to May 6, 2018.

Film to be screened are as follows…

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Interview, RCI

Documentary: Quebec My Country Mon Pays

By Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International

Filmmaker and former Montrealer John Walker discusses his film, Quebec My Country Mon Pays, and the hundreds of thousands of English Montrealers who reluctantly felt they had to leave Quebec.

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CKUT 90.3FM – Off the Hour – Interview with John Walker

Listen to an interview with John Walker, the maker of Quebec My Country, Mon Pays which was screened at La Cinematheque Quebecoise de Montreal on Monday, 19th. He discussed his personal history and the Quebec’s Quiet Revolution which took place in the 1960’s and unleashed cultural and political changes that lead to the separatist movement and the FLQ crisis.

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Interview, Cult Montreal

Quebec My Country Mon Pays paints a conflicted portrait

By Alex Rose, Cult Montreal

John Walker discusses the challenges of telling a personal story, but recognizes how it helped him address a tumultuous period in both his own history and in Canada’s.

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