Phillip Borsos

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Phillip Borsos May 5 1953 February 13 1995 was Canadian film director and film producer Borsos showed an early interest in filmmaking while attending high school in Maple Ridge BC He studied film at the Banff Centre School for Fine Arts and at the Vancouver School of Art now the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design His early work included several shorts notable for their cinematography and pacing Three outstanding documentaries done in his early years are Cooperage 1976 Spartree 1977 and Nails 1979 All three won Best Theatrical Short at the Canadian Film Awards The Genie Awards and also received a nomination for an Oscar in the Documentary Short category He began working on featurelength films and his first The Grey Fox earned him a Best Director and Best Film at the Genies in 1983 It told the story of Bill Miner Canadas first train robber and starred Richard Farnsworth He followed that success with The Mean Season 1985 and One Magic Christmas 1985 Production problems dogged his biopic Bethune The Making of a Hero 1990 which starred Donald Sutherland as Dr Norman Bethune His final film Far From Home The Adventures of Yellow Dog was produced in 1994 During the same time he was diagnosed with leukemia He died February 2 1995 at age 41 Description above from the Wikipedia article Phillip Borsos licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia