Barry Greenwald

{{Short description|Canadian documentary filmmaker}}

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Barry Greenwald (born 1954) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker,Frank Daley, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77360598/ "Cannes prize-winner forced to drive taxi"]. Ottawa Journal, June 18, 1976. and co-founder of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus. While in his final year as a student at Conestoga College, he directed the 1975 film Metamorphosis, inspired by Czech documentary filmmaker Vaclav Taborsky, which won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.{{cite encyclopedia|last=McIntosh|first=Andrew|title=Metamorphosis|url=http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/films/metamorphosis|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222193434/http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/films/metamorphosis|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 February 2013|encyclopedia=Canadian Film Encyclopedia|publisher=Toronto International Film Festival|accessdate=6 April 2012}} Upon graduation, he worked with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as a film editor, before directing documentary films independently.{{cite book|last=Pratley|first=Gerald|authorlink=Gerald Pratley|title=Torn Sprockets: The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film|date=October 1987|publisher=Univ of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0874131949|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k-d7P4BD-cQC&dq=Barry+Greenwald&pg=PA134|accessdate=6 April 2012|page=134}}

Greenwald's films include the 1990 one-hour documentary Between Two Worlds, about Inuit Joseph Idlout. Produced by the NFB and Investigative Productions Inc., the film is included in the 2011 Inuit film collection, Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories.{{cite web|title=Between Two Worlds|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/index.php?id=18436|work=Collection|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=6 April 2012}}