Jason Buxton

{{short description|Canadian film director and screenwriter|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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Jason Buxton is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed three short films, A Fresh Start, The Garden and The Drawing,{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} before debuting his first full-length feature film, Blackbird, in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/09/10/jason-buxton-talks-about-his-film-blackbird/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216133317/http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/09/10/jason-buxton-talks-about-his-film-blackbird/|title=Jason Buxton on Blackbird: 'There's a meditative quality to it'|work=National Post|date=September 10, 2012|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}

Career

Buxton's first feature film Blackbird was nominated for two awards at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, including a nomination for Best Original Screenplay. It was also a co-winner, alongside Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral, of the Best Canadian First Feature Film award at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/136807-chester-filmmaker-wins-tiff-award-for-blackbird|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912131853/http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/136807-chester-filmmaker-wins-tiff-award-for-blackbird|title=Chester filmmaker wins TIFF award for Blackbird|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=September 17, 2012|archive-date=September 12, 2018}} The film won three awards at that year's Atlantic Film Festival: Best Atlantic Feature, Best Atlantic Director, and the Michael Weir Award for Outstanding Atlantic Screenplay (sponsored by the Michael Weir Foundation for the Arts).{{cite press release |url=http://atlanticfilm.com/media/archive/winners-32nd-atlantic-film-festival-announced |title=Winners of the 32nd Atlantic Film Festival announced! |publisher=Atlantic Film Festival |date=2012-09-20 |accessdate=2013-03-04 |archive-date=2013-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305052705/http://atlanticfilm.com/media/archive/winners-32nd-atlantic-film-festival-announced |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|last=Nemetz|first=Andrea|title=Blackbird continues to soar with three AFF awards|url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/137985-blackbird-continues-to-soar-with-three-aff-awards|accessdate=6 October 2012|newspaper=The Chronicle Herald|date=21 September 2012}}

Blackbird also won the 2013 Claude Jutra Award for the year's best Canadian film by a first-time director.{{cite news|title=Blackbird director Jason Buxton wins first-film honour|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/blackbird-director-jason-buxton-wins-first-film-honour-1.1329626|access-date=30 January 2013|newspaper=CBC News|date=29 January 2013}}

His second feature film, Sharp Corner, premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/toronto-adds-angelina-jolie-mike-leigh-edward-burns-david-mackenzie-titles/5195622.article|title=Toronto film festival adds Angelina Jolie, Mike Leigh, Edward Burns, David Mackenzie titles|work=Screen Daily|first=Jeremy|last=Kay|date=July 22, 2024|access-date=November 10, 2024}}

Personal life

Buxton is based in Chester, Nova Scotia.

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Category:Film directors from Nova Scotia

Category:Canadian male screenwriters

Category:People from Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia

Category:Living people

Category:Best First Feature Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:21st-century Canadian screenwriters

Category:21st-century Canadian male writers

Category:Screenwriters from Nova Scotia