Nick Hector
| Nick Hector | |
|---|---|
| Born | Brampton, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation |
Professor Film Editor Film Producer |
| Years active | 1986 - present |
Nick Hector is a CSA, DGC, CCE, HotDocs, and Gemini Award-winning film and story editor, a Gemini Award-nominated sound editor, and a Genie Award nominated producer. Hector is also a professor at the University of Windsor where he teaches film production arts.
Career
Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini for editing King’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" and Gemini Award-winning Dying at Grace, which the Toronto International Film Festival described as “one of the best ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on Yvan Patry’s Hot Docs Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson’s Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary.
Hector's credits include Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning Crimes of the Heart; Min Sook Lee’s Hot Docs "Best Canadian Feature" Hogtown and Allan King’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company. He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and also the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner Monsoon.
In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries Sharkwater Extinction, Wiebo's War, Thay - The Teacher, War Surgeon, Actuality and the award-winning El Chogui. He served as series producer for Birth Stories and Love is Not Enough and co-director of the CSA Award-winning series War Story. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for Wiebo's War.
In 2018, Hector completed the movie Sharkwater Extinction after the death of Rob Stewart (filmmaker).[1]
Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Canadian Cinema Editors honours society.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Sharkwater Extinction | Producer, Editor | Nominated - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2017 | Canada in a Day | Editor | Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2017 | Unfractured | Editor | Planet in Focus Award for Best Canadian Feature Earthx Film (Texas) Award for Best Feature Nominated - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2017 | How to Prepare for Prison | Editor | Nominated - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2016 | This Changes Everything | Editor | Cinema Politica Audience Choice Award Nominated - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2015 | Monsoon | Editor | Toronto International Film Festival Top Ten Canadian Film TIFF Top Ten Festival Audience Award Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film Nominated - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Nominated - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award |
| 2014 | War Story | Co-director, Editor | Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Series Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary Series Houston International Independent Film Festival WorldFest Award Nominated - Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2013 | Echoes | Editor | Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2012 | Wiebo's War | Producer, Editor | Nominated - Genie Award for Best Feature Documentary Nominated - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Nominated - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Nominated - Sheffield Green Award Honourable Mention - Hot Docs Best Feature Documentary Honourable Mention - RIDM Award for Best Canadian Feature |
| 2011 | Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie | Editor | Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Documentary Award Canadian Environmental Media Award of Excellence Vancouver International Film Festival Award for Best Environmental Film Byron Bay Film Festival Award for Best Film Cinéfest Award for Best Documentary |
| 2010 | Experimental Eskimos | Editor | Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award Yorkton Film Festival's NFB Kathleen Shannon Award Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival Award for Best Documentary |
| 2009 | Air India 182 | Editor | Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Documentary |
| 2006 | Memory | Editor | Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound Nominated - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team |
| 2006 | EMPz 4 Life | Editor | Nominated - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team |
| 2004 | Dying at Grace | Editor | Gemini Award for Best Documentary Gemini Award for Best Documentary Directing Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team Cinematheque Ontario Award for Top Ten Canadian Film |
| 2004 | Hogtown | Editor | HotDocs Award for Best Canadian Documentary |
| 2003 | Inside Information | Editor | Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2002 | El Chogui | Producer, Editor | Contra el Silencio todas las Voces (Mexico) Award for Best Documentary La Festival Medias Nord-Sud (Switzerland) Award for Best Independent Film Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival Award for Best Documentary San Francisco Latino Film Festival Award for Best in Festival La Cinemafe Film Festival (New York) Special Jury Prize |
| 1999 | The Dragon's Egg | Editor | Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 1997 | Chronique d'un genocide | Editor | Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Hot Docs Award for Best of Festival Hot Docs Award for Best Theatrical Film Chalmers Arts Awards for Best Documentary Film Cinemateque Quebecois Award for Best Quebeccois Film Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire |
| 1996 | Hand of God | Editor | HotDocs Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 1996 | Drowning in Dreams | Editor | Nominated - Genie Award for Best Documentary |
| 1992 | Winds of Memory | Editor | Festival of the Americas Special Jury Prize, Best Human Rights Film Havana International Film Festival Coral Festival Cine-Iberamerican (Huelva, Spain) Best Documentary |
| 1991 | Nuit et silence | Editor, Sound Editor | Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Best Television Reportage Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Best Reportage in any Media |
| 1989 | The Forbidden Land | Editor, Sound Editor | Nyon International Documentary Film Festival Jury Prize American Film & Video Festival Blue Ribbon |
| 1989 | Electronic Jam | Editor, Sound Editor | Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound |
References
- Lumley, Elizabeth (2018). Canadian Who's Who 2018. University of Toronto Press.
- Tong, Allan (2011). Montage Magazine "Cut to Nick Hector". Directors Guild of Canada. pp. 20–23.
- Nick Hector on IMDB
- Nick Hector on Criterion