Mark Sawers

Mark Sawers is a Canadian film and television director.[1] Best known for his feature films Camera Shy and No Men Beyond This Point,[2] he is also a four-time Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama for his films Stroke at the 13th Genie Awards,[3] Hate Mail at the 14th Genie Awards, Shoes Off at the 19th Genie Awards[4] and Lonesome Joe at the 24th Genie Awards. Shoes Off also won the Canal+ Award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[5]

As a television director, his credits have included segments of The Kids in the Hall, and episodes of Alienated,[6] Alice, I Think, About a Girl, The Assistants, Mr. Young and Anticlimax.

From Vancouver, British Columbia, Sawers is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.[7]

References
  1. "A short life in Cannes : Vancouver film-maker Mark Sawers enjoys acclaim at the world's most famous film festival -- and obscurity at home. That's the price he pays for making short films". Vancouver Sun, May 21, 1999.
  2. "Director Mark Sawers explores extinction in humourous No Men Beyond This Point". The Georgia Straight, September 23, 2015.
  3. "French-Canadian films steal Genie show: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch leads the pack with 11 nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 1992.
  4. "They dream of Genies". Halifax Daily News, December 8, 1998.
  5. "Belgian movie wins top prize at Cannes ; Toronto's Egoyan misses ceremony when film shut out". Toronto Star, May 24, 1999.
  6. "Sci-fi TV comedy filmed in Saanich opens on New VI". Victoria Times-Colonist, September 4, 2003.
  7. "Film-maker Mark Sawers tastes big time in Cannes". Vancouver Sun, May 12, 1993.


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