Leningradskaya – A Village in Southern Russia and Leningrad – the opening two films of the trilogy use first person accounts to reveal the tragic details of the famine and political persecution suffered under Stalin’s regime. (October Films, PTV Productions, BBC broadcast)
Awards/Nominations
Gemini Award – Best Documentary Director
Earth Peace International Film Festival – Special Merit Award
Royal Television Society Nomination – Best Series
British Press Guild Nominatioin – Best Series
Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television Nomination – Best Series
Gemeaux nominations – Best Documentary, Best Director of Photography in all categories
Credits: Episode 1
Director: John Walker
Cinematographer: John Walker, csc
Editor: Steve Stevenson
Sound: John Martin
Series Producer: Tom Roberts
Associate Producer: Angus Macqueen
Executive Producer: Bill Nemtin
Production Company: PTV Productions/October Films for BBC Television
Credits: Episode 2
Director: John Walker
Cinematographer: John Walker, csc
Editors: Peter Lindley, Simon Price
Sound: John Martin
Music: Ilona Sekacz
Series Producer: Tom Roberts
Producer: Angus Macqueen
Executive Producer: Bill Nemtin
Production Company: PTV Productions/October Films for BBC Television
"John Walker’s extraordinary direction, visually stunning in its portrayal of landscape, concentrating in its depiction of human grief on the still faces of individuals, told more than words. And these, God help them, are the survivors. The lucky ones."
A personal look at the master photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand who inspired Walker. Their meetings in the late seventies lead to the film looking back at Strand’s lifework, returning to the locations of his art in New Mexico, Scotland, France and Italy.
The film includes interviews with Strand’s wives, Hazel Kingsbury and Virigina Stevens, and colleagues and friends Leo Hurwitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cesare Zavattini, Fred Zinneman and others. 81min (Theatrical release, BBC broadcast)
Awards/Nominations
Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television – Genie Award – Best Feature Documentary
Nyon International Documentary Festival – Public Jury Award
Festival International Du Film Sur L’Art – Best Biography
Credits
Director: John Walker
Writers: Seaton Findlay, John Walker
Cinematographer: John Walker, csc
Editors: Cathy Gulkin, John Kramer, Geoff Bowie
Sound: Aerlyn Weissman and Jean-Pierre Delmore, and David Springbett and Bob Withey
"Strand: Under the Dark Cloth takes us on a journey that is as spiritual and psychological as it is physical and historical. As its title suggests, the film lifts the cloth which conceals the artist and the man."
Clip 1
53 sec | Paul Strand as he discusses the importance of his portraiture.
Clip 2
62 sec | Director John Walker talks about Paul Strand’s marriage to his first wife Rebecca Salsbury Strand.
Clip 3
61 sec | Clips from Paul Strand’s Mexican film by director Fred Zinnermann and discussion of how he challenged the social order of the time.
Clip 4
62 sec | Strand’s co-director Leo Hurwitz talks about the film ‘Native Land’ and its challenge to American racism and the KKK.
57 mins, 1982
Portrait of the celebrated Canadian artist and experimental filmmaker, Jack Chambers who died at the peak of his career from leukemia. (CBC broadcast)
Awards/Nominations
Canadian Film & Television Association Award – Best Documentary
Yorkton Film Festival – Golden Sheaf Awards – Best Film of Festival and Best Human Condition
American Film Festival – Blue Ribbon
Houston Film Festival – Bronze Award
Canadian Film Editors – Best Editing
Canadian Society of Cinematographers – Best Documentary Photography
Credits
Director: John Walker
Writers: Seaton Findlay, Christopher Lowry
Cinematographer: John Walker, csc
Editor: Sally Patterson
Sound: Aerlyn Weissman, David Springbett, Andy McBrearty, Robin Russell, Richard Lightstone
Music: Larry Crosley
Narrator: Cedric Smith
Producer: Christopher Lowry
Executive Producers: Michael MacMillan, Janice Platt, Seaton McLean
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