fiction.wikisort.org - DirectorMort Ransen (August 16, 1933 – September 4, 2021) was a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known for his Genie Award-winning 1995 film Margaret's Museum.[1]
Film and television director (1933–2021)
Ransen was born in Montreal, Quebec, and was educated at the High School of Montreal. He began his career as an actor and theatre director, later becoming a director and producer of documentary films for the National Film Board.[2] He later left the NFB to work on his first dramatic feature film, Bayo. He has also directed television, including an episode of Street Legal and three films in the Shades of Love series of romance films.
Ransen was a nominee for Best Director, and winner of Best Screenplay with his cowriter Gerald Wexler, at the 16th Genie Awards for Margaret's Museum.
Due to the effects of dementia, Ransen chose to die with medical assistance in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia on September 4, 2021.[3]
Filmography
Feature films
Documentaries
- The Teacher: Authority or Automaton? (1961)
- Jacky Visits the Zoo (1962)
- Among Fish (1964)
- Zero Point One (1964)
- The Transition (1964)
- The Inner Man (1964)
- Fighting Fit (1964)
- John Hirsh: A Portrait of a Man and a Theatre (1965)
- Labour College (1966)
- No Reason to Stay (1966)
- The Circle (1967)
- Christopher's Movie Matinée (1968)
- Falling from Ladders (1969)
- You Are on Indian Land (1969) (recredited to Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell in 2016)[4]
- The Burden They Carry (1970)
- Untouched and Pure (1970)
- The Three I's (1970)
- Overspill (1970)
- Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky (1985)
Television
- Street Legal, episode "A Matter of Honour" (1987)
- Shades of Love: Sincerely, Violet (1987)
- Shades of Love: The Emerald Tear (1988)
- Shades of Love: Tangerine Taxi (1988)
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