Mort Ransen
Mort Ransen (born August 16, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known for his Genie Award-winning 1995 film Margaret's Museum.[1]
Ransen 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.
Filmography[]
Feature films[]
- Running Time (1974)
- Bayo (1985)
- Falling Over Backwards (1990)
- Margaret's Museum (1995)
- Touched (1999)
- Ah...the Money, the Money, the Money (2001)
- Bastards (2003)
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)[3]
- 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)
References[]
- ^ Mort Ransen Archived 2011-09-07 at the Wayback Machine at northernstars.ca.
- ^ Mort Ransen at the Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
- ^ Tracey, Andrew (24 February 2017). "Now Reconciled: Nearly 50 years later, the director of a landmark First Nations film gets his rightful recognition". The Review. Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
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