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Alex Hamilton-Brown - Writer/Director/Producer

PROFILE

Alex Hamilton-Brown (photo credit: Lin Winans)
Photo credit: Lin Winans

Following a background in music and theatre, Alex began his film career in the British film industry with Pathé and Elstree Studios.

A graduate of New York University’s School of Film and Television, for the past forty years, he has written, produced and directed award-winning films and videos for broadcast organizations worldwide.

Alex is the recipient of twenty-five international film awards including festival winners and two gold medals. He has been nominated Best Director by both the New York Film and Television Festival and the Academy of Canadian Film and Television.

Over the years, Alex has built a reputation as one of the preeminent film producers of the arts in Canada; some of these include, architecture, sculpture, prehistoric art and music productions. He was the creator and Executive Producer of ELEGY, a dance-drama filmed in Paris starring Canada’s Prima-ballerina, Karen Kain.  Networked in prime-time by CBC Television and ARTV, ELEGY has been nominated for three international awards, including a Prix Gemeaux.

A native of Stirlingshire, Scotland, Alex is a Canadian citizen and lives in Bancroft, Ontario.  He has two daughters and a dog named Cody.

 

SELECTED FILM AWARDS

LIFE ANOTHER WAY

  • Yorkton Film festival, Saskatchewan, Canada, FESTIVAL JURY AWARD.
  • United States Film Festival, SILVER PLAQUE.

SPIRIT OF THE ARCTIC 

  • AMTEC Best Documentary

PATHWAY FROM WITHIN

  • NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL, Silver Medal
  • COLUMBUS FILM FESTIVAL, Christopher Plaque
  • CHICAGO FILM FESTIVAL, Outstanding Achievement Award

SPIRIT OF STONE

  • COLUMBUS FILM FESTIVAL, Christopher Plaque

I AM A GUITAR

  • SCOTTISH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Jury Award Winner

ELEGY

  • AMTEC Documentary Arts Award
  • GEMEAUX nomination

SELECTED PRODUCER AWARDS for TVO

  • QUEST INTO MATTER, Chicago Film Festival, GOLD PLAQUE
  • ELEMENTS OF CHANGE, Festival of the Americas, GOLD MEDAL
  • IRREVERSIBLE WORLD, Bell Northern Award, WINNER

FESTIVAL AND COMPETITION JUDGE

  • Chaired Gemini Awards for Best Television Drama and Best Documentary.
  • 2006, judge of “Best Dance Film” for Canada Council for the Arts.
  • 2011, judge for the Haliburton Highlands Writers’ and Editors’ Network poetry competition.

WRITING GRANT

2005 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS

  • $30,000 grant for the film script of ELEGY

TEACHING FILM PRODUCTION AND WRITING

  • 1993-97, taught screenwriting and producing for Vancouver and Toronto film schools.
  • 1994, created the first 2 year film course for CDIS School of Communications, Vancouver.
  • 2006, with Byron Chief Moon, wrote and produced an original ballet for the Vancouver Dance Theatre.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

SHORT STORIES, ARTICLES AND POETRY

  • 2011, short story, WHEN TREES COULD WALK, Published in “From The Cottage Porch.” (An Anthology of Canadian short stories and poetry).
  • 2010, short story, SNOOZIE’S FIRST CHRISTMAS, published in special Christmas edition of the Ottawa Citizen.
  • Published many articles in Canadian and U.K. magazines.
  • Over a hundred scenarios for film and television.
  • 2011, short story, A CHRISTMAS VISIT (work in progress).
    Publication, November 2011.
  • 2011, first novel, (work in progress).

POETRY

  • 2010, two awards for poem IN THE MORNING OF THE SILENCE.
  • 2010/2011, published various poems in The Ontario Poetry Society journal.

STORIES FOR CHILDREN by Alex Hamilton-Brown

  • WHEN TREES COULD WALK, a chapter book for ages 6-12.
  • THE SWAN AND THE SNOWGOOSE, ages 5-8. (With CD reading by the author).
  • SNOOZIE’S FIRST CHRISTMAS, ages 4-6. (With CD reading by the author).
  • 2011, A CHRISTMAS VISIT, a Science Fiction Christmas story for all ages.

For schools, Alex gives an entertaining and informative presentation about writing stories for children. He also delights his audience with lively character voices, as he reads extracts from his stories.

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