About

  

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.

Recently, along with Byron Chief-Moon and an all First Nation cast, he developed an original and successful theatre production for the Vancouver Dance Centre.

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 AWARDS

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

WRITING GRANT

2005 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS

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

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

Articles

  • Chaucer - Man of Lynn, East Anglia Review
  • Birth of a Ballet, British Music Magazine
  • Regular columnist for The Apsley Voice, 2010
  • Various articles for The Bancroft Times, 2008/2010

POETRY

  • 2010 Award for poem “IN THE MORNING OF THE SILENCE“

STORIES FOR CHILDREN by Alex Hamilton-Brown

  • Snoozie’s First Christmas (with CD reading by author)
  • The Swan and the Snowgoose (with CD reading by author)
  • When Trees Could Walk (with CD reading by author)

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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