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Peter Wintonick

Peter Wintonick
Peter Wintonick, winner, 2006 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (photo: Martin Lipman)

Artist Profiles and Success Stories

Peter Wintonick is a producer, director, critic and editor of independent film, video and new media. His work includes dramatic features, theatrical documentaries, educational and socio-political works. Born in 1953 in Trenton (ON), Wintonick graduated from Algonquin College in Ottawa. He has lectured at Concordia University in Montreal and at universities around the world. A leader in digital documentary production, web work and media literacy, Wintonick is noted for co-producing and directing (with Mark Achbar) one of the most successful documentaries in Canadian history, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. It has played in 200 cities, won 22 awards at more than 50 international film festivals and has been broadcast in a dozen languages. He also directed (with the NFB) Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment and Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News. Wintonick contributes to film magazines and advises film festivals and film institutions around the world. He lives in Montreal.

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