Jonathan Tammuz
Jonathan Tammuz is a British-Canadian film director, best known for directing the short film The Childeater and the feature film Rupert's Land. The Childeater was a shortlisted Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 62nd Academy Awards,[1] and Rupert's Land which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Picture at the 19th Genie Awards, with Tammuz also nominated for Best Director.[2]
The son of Israeli writer Benjamin Tammuz, he grew up in England where his father was a cultural attaché at the Israeli embassy and a writer in residence at Oxford University. He met and married Lib Stephen, a Canadian, when they were both studying at England's National Film and Television School; Stephen was the screenwriter for both The Childeater and Tammuz's film Cordoba.[1]
Tammuz subsequently directed a 1987 film adaptation of his father's novel Minotaur before making Rupert's Land.[3]
Tammuz and Stephen currently reside in Vancouver, British Columbia, where they are partners in a production firm; Tammuz is also a film instructor at Langara College and Stephen also works as an illustrator.
References
- ^ a b "Eyes for Oscar". Vancouver Sun, March 9, 1990.
- ^ "Genies genuflect for Red Violin". Montreal Gazette, December 8, 1998.
- ^ Peter Cowie, The Variety Insider. Penguin Group, 1999. ISBN 9780399525247. p. 186.
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