Peter Wintonick
{{Short description|Canadian documentary filmmaker (1953 - 2013)}}
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Peter Kenneth Wintonick (June 10, 1953 – November 18, 2013) was a Canadian independent documentary filmmaker based in Montreal. A winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, former Thinker in Residence for the Premier of South Australia, prolific award-winning filmmaker, he was one of Canada's best known international documentarians.
Biography
Born in Trenton, Ontario in 1953, Wintonick was the son of John Wintonick and Norma Latham. He was of Ukrainian descent.{{cite web|title=Remembering documentary film legend Peter Wintonick|url=http://artthreat.net/2013/11/remembering-peter-wintonick/|publisher=Art Threat|accessdate=14 July 2017}}Ontario, Canada, The Ottawa Journal (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1885-1980
He founded Necessary Illusions Productions with Mark Achbar, and subsequently ran it with Francis Miquet. Wintonick was a co-founder of DocAgora, an event inserted into various film festivals showcasing cutting-edge digital strategies. He co-directed, with his daughter, Mira Burt-Wintonick, the 2009 documentary PilgrIMAGE, a film about documentary filmmaking.{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/peter-wintonick-canadian-documentary-great-dead-at-60-1.2430697|title=Peter Wintonick, Canadian documentary great, dead at 60|date=18 November 2013|work=CBC News|accessdate=November 18, 2013}}
Wintonick died of cholangiocarcinoma on November 18, 2013, aged 60.[http://realscreen.com/2013/11/18/ridm-13-industry-rallies-behind-peter-wintonick/#ixzz2l2RmcWKu ReelScreen obituary (November 18, 2013)]
Select filmography
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) with Mark Achbar and Francis Miquet
- Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment (1999) with the National Film Board of Canada
- Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News (2002) winner of the Dan & Ewa Abraham and Tammy Abraham Award for Films of Conflict & Resolution at the 2002 Hamptons International Film Festival and Gemini Award nominee, co-directed with Katerina Cizek
Other work
In early 2005, at the invitation of the premier of South Australia, he filled the post of Thinker in Residence, examining the future of documentaries and the digital revolution with a focus on educational and cultural legislation.{{cite web|url=http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/thinkers/Wintonick/|title=Adelaide Thinkers in Residence - Peter Wintonick|publisher=Govt. of South Australia|accessdate=2011-03-03|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222003134/http://thinkers.sa.gov.au/thinkers/Wintonick/|archivedate=2011-02-22}}
Governor General's Award
Wintonick was the winner of a 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. His body of work includes dramatic features, theatrical documentaries, educational and socio-political works.
Legacy
In 2014, a new award called the Peter Wintonick Award was given at Sheffield Doc/Fest to Vessel. The award was presented by Martin Rosenbaum, who read a message from Wintonick's daughter Mira, which said that she was very happy to see the award go to "a filmmaker who embodies his activist spirit."{{cite web|title=Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 Awards Announced|url=https://sheffdocfest.com/articles/218-sheffield-doc-fest-2014-awards-announced|website=sheffdocfest.com|accessdate=17 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090559/https://sheffdocfest.com/articles/218-sheffield-doc-fest-2014-awards-announced|archive-date=19 August 2014|url-status=dead}} Wintonick's film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media was also screened at the festival.
He is the subject of his daughter Mira's 2019 film Wintopia.Alex Rose, [https://cultmtl.com/2021/03/montreal-filmmaker-peter-wintonick-subject-of-very-personal-new-film-wintopia-documentary/ "Montreal filmmaker Peter Wintonick is the subject of a very personal new film"]. Cult MTL, March 26, 2021.
References
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External links
- [http://www.necessaryillusions.ca/ Necessary Illusions]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100808141551/http://docagora.org/ DocAgora]
- [http://www.seeingisbelieving.ca Seeing is Believing]
- [http://www.filmswelike.com Films we Like]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041013081732/http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/home.html Thinkers in Residence]
- {{IMDb name|id=0936092|name=Peter Wintonick}}
- [http://realscreen.com/2013/11/18/ridm-13-industry-rallies-behind-peter-wintonick/#ixzz2l2RmcWKu Obituary at ReelScreen]
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Category:Film directors from Ontario
Category:Canadian documentary film directors
Category:People from Quinte West
Category:Anglophone Quebec people
Category:Deaths from cholangiocarcinoma in Canada
Category:Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners