Evan Beloff

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Evan Beloff is a Canadian film writer/producer/director and production company executive.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Evan Beloff graduated from Concordia University with a double major in Playwriting and Theatre. Since then, he has worked as a writer, actor, director, script editor and producer. He has written plays for the theatre (see Credits section below) and scripts for film. He is a former researcher, archivist and cameraman for Steven Spielberg's visual history archives of World War II, The Shoah Foundation. Beloff began his film career working for renowned IMAX producer Pietro L. Serapiglia and his company Filmlegend in 1995. In the last decade he has moved into the world of docu-series, mockumentaries and documentary film writing, directing and production.

[edit] 1990s

In 1998, Beloff co-founded the Montreal indie film-house Diversus Productions and in 1999 co-produced the Felix Award-winning music video (Best music video, Quebec) La Vie est Laide for Quebec rock star Jean Leloup.

[edit] 2000s

In 2000-2001, Beloff served as the Producer and Second Unit Director for the Gemini Award-nominated documentary Too Colorful for the League: A History of Blacks in Hockey for the CBC. Then, in 2002, he produced, starred in and narrated the festival hit mockumentary Schmelvis: Searching for the King's Jewish Roots (Nodance, HBO Comedy Arts Fest).

In 2002 and 2003, Beloff co-produced, wrote and directed the popular 19 part documentary series (two seasons) Women Warriors for WTSN, SCN, CBC, Radio Canada and CFCF12/CTV. He also produced an episode of Life & Times for CBC on one of Canada's most famous poets, the late Irving Layton. In 2003 Beloff co-produced the reality comedy-documentary Cruising Quebec for Global, and produced, co-wrote and co-directed the mockumentary The Legend of Memphre for Space and City TV. In 2004 he co-produced "Being Osama" for CBC's Passionate Eye, RDI and Al Arabiya. His final documentary project at Diversus was an architecture and travel documentary for Global titled "Winter Wonderland: The Making of the Ice Hotel". Beloff wrote, directed and produced the film which is distributed by the National Film Board of Canada and broadcast internationally on such channels as: HBO Europe, Spektrum TV RT Hungary, CPS Czech Republic, TVC Spain, NHK Japan and TV2 in France

In 2005, Beloff relinquished partnership in Diversus Productions to establish his own company, Ontic Media Inc. and has since written, directed and produced (in collaboration with Bunbury Film's Frederic Bohbot) the award-winning, biopic thriller, Once a Nazi on former Waffen SS soldier turned professor Adalbert Lallier for SCN, CTV, Canal D, CLT, American Public Television / PBS and distributed internationally by the National Film Board of Canada • • • Once a Nazi... was awarded the 2006 J. I Segal Award for Canadian, Jewish-Themed Film of the Year • • •

http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/images/Flyer%20JI%20Segal%202006.pdf

In 2008, he produced the documentary Quitter le Bercail (Leaving the Fold) by acclaimed director Eric Scott for [Radio Canada, Documentary Channel Canada, ABC Australia] and co-wrote/produced/directed an update of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch legend titled "Bigfoot's Reflection" for CHUM, City TV, CLT, Space and SCN

In 2010, Beloff produced the access documentary "Burning Water" along with Frederic Bohbot's Bunbury Films for CBC's The Lens. The film is directed by Cameron Esler and Tadzio Richards. In 2010 Beloff returned to directing with the documentary "Underdog Plaza" on Quebec Super Welterweight Boxing Champion Dierry Jean for OMNI Television Canada and PBS' world Compass - and remains in development on the documentary: "Heavy Metal Revisited" on the adult animation cult classic of the same name for CTV and Space TV. "Heavy Metal Revisited" is also being produced by Bunbury Film's Frederic Bohbot.

[edit] 2011

In March Beloff completed principal production on a feature length documentary on the high profile abduction and murder of 8 year-old, Tracy, California resident Sandra Cantu."Tracy's Angel" is produced By Montreal's SLV Films.

[edit] Awards and honors

Evan is the recipient of a prestigious CTV Producer's Fellowship from the Banff International Television Festival (2000).

[edit] Personal life

Beloff is a Vegan

http://www.ivu.org/people/actors/beloff.html

[edit] Credits

[edit] Plays

  • The Wait, produced by Vilna Players
  • Never by Rightime Productions
  • Natural Times , produced by the OK Theatre

[edit] Films

  • A Red Carpet for the Sun: The Life & Times of Irving Layton"
  • Winter Wonderland: Making of the Ice Hotel
  • Schmelvis: Searching for the King's Jewish Roots
  • Too Colorful for the League: A History of Blacks in Hockey
  • Cruising Quebec
  • The Legend of Memphre
  • Being Osama
  • Once a Nazi... (Nazi un Jour...)
  • Bigfoot's Reflection
  • Quitter le Bercail (Leaving the Fold)
  • Burning Water
  • Underdog Plaza

[edit] Television

  • Women Warriors
  • Life & Times: Irving Layton

[edit] Music videos

  • La Vie est Laide

[edit] Sources and references

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