Giles Walker

Giles Walker (1946-2020), born in Scotland, earned a master's degree at the Stanford film school before joining the National Film Board, where he began with documentary, notably on skiing. Having moved to fiction, he was nominated for an Oscar for a short film. He became a figure of the organisation's alternative drama programme, which combines non-professional performers with documentary methods. He died of cancer in Toronto, after ten years of illness.

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• Cinema90 DaysGiles Walker · 1985Cinema