Born: ?, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Education: McGill University, Montréal [Literature & Communications]; Concordia University [CU], Montréal [Film].

Career: 'I grew up in a home that had a predisposition towards the visual arts, but in a city, Montreal, where children under 10 [at that time] weren't allowed to go to movies. Also, we didn't have a television until a certain age, so I lived without that. So when my father sneaked us in to see 'The Bridge on the River Kwai', when I was eight or nine, while it was playing in reruns, it made a huge impression on me. I don't remember seeing many movies until I got to high school, when I started skipping classes to see films. When I was in high school, my friends and I had a Super 8 camera and we made some little movies. As it turned out in Canada, partly as the result of government policy and nationalism, they wanted to create a film industry. I was interested in storytelling. I was studying literature in Montreal. At one point I lost interest and I switched to communications because it was closer to film. At the same time, I shot some 16mm for a friend's short no-budget film. Then I transferred to Concordia, which has a film production program, probably the biggest in Quebec.'

Ph commercials and music videos.

Awards: Festival des Films du Monde 'Student Award' [1981; ex aequo] for 'Second Story Man'; Golden Sheaf Award nom [1994] for 'Gambit'; 'Gemini' Award nom [1997] for 'Little Criminals'; 'Leo' Award nom [200?] for 'Cold Squad' [ep #69 'The Shed' dir by Peter Mitchell]; 'Leo' Award nom [2008] for 'Intelligence' [ep #14 'A Man Escapes' dir by Stephen Surjik]; ASC TV Award nom [2008] for 'Flashpoint' [ep #5 'Who's George?' dir by Holly Dale].

Stephen Reizes: 'People talk about these hour-long tapes, but video cameras do not have the same sensibility as movie cameras. One has a different attitude when one's shooting this very precious and still magical chemical thing that has to go to the lab and you can't see the results 'til later. The whole experience of waiting to see how the images look is lovely, because they don't look the same as through the viewfinder or the video assist. It's somehow always better on film. If you can just roll the digital media 24 hours a day and capture it, you might capture some great moments, but the story may never be a reflection of what's in the director's head. There may never be the confluence of everybody's focus, like a live performance where all the pieces are in place, and it's rolling through the camera like that. I don't think things are going to change in the next while anyway.' [From interview with KODAK Canada OnFilm.]

1981        Second Story Man [Stephen Surjik] c; short/16m; prod CU

1981        Terminal Case [Ray Roth] c; short/22m; prod CU

1983        Trilogy [Bashar Shbib] 16mm/b&w; comp of 3 short films: 'Or'd'ur', 'Betsy' & 'Amour impossible'; + co-ed seg 'Betsy';

                    prod CU

1983        [Part Two of the Critical Years:] The Dexter Reports [Gérald L'Écuyer] 16mm/?; cph: Gérald L'Écuyer & Andrew

                    Nevard; prod CU

1983        Lettre à Catherine [Marie Potvin] c; short/8m

1985        Cazalla de la sierra [Bashar Shbib] 16mm/c; doc/26m

1985        Sting of the Bee [Max Berdowski] c; short/12m

1986        Du pain et des jeux [Marie Potvin] c; short/15m

1988        The Expatriate/L'expatrie [James Dunnison] ?; short/22m

1988        Clair-obscur/The Stork [Bashar Shbib] c

1988        Horses in Winter [Rick Raxlen & Patrick Vallely] 16mm/c

1989        15 Ugly Sisters [Bashar Shbib] c

1989        Julia Has Two Lovers [Bashar Shbib] c; addph: Geza Sinkovics

1989        Crack Me Up [Bashar Shbib] c; released 1994

199?        Fun and Games [D. Terry] c

1990        You're Driving Me Crazy [Michel Wachniuc] c; comp of 3 shorts (or tv-ep?); cph: Bruno Philip

1990        Lana in Love [Bashar Shbib] c

1991        Love $ Greed/Swift and Natural [Bashar Shbib] c

1991        With Friends Like These... [Chris Malazdrewicz, Tom Parkinson & Alain Zaloum] c/V; 3 seg; other ph: Michel Lamothe &

                    Bruno Philip

1991        Canvas [: The Fine Art of Crime] [Alain Zaloum] c

1992        Rockhead's Paradise [Marie Potvin] ?; doc/?m

1992        Gambit/La combine [F.W. Samms] c; short/8m

1993        Lip Gloss [Lois Siegel] c; doc/68m; cph: Jean-Yves Dion, Glen MacPherson, Andrew Nevard & Daniel Villeneuve

1993        The Paper Boy [Douglas Jackson] c; 2uc; ph: Rodney Gibbons

1994        Relative Fear/The Child [George Mihalka] c; co-2uc; ph: Rodney Gibbons

1994        Silent Hunter [Fred Williamson] c; cph: Curtis Petersen

1994        Broken Promises - The High Arctic Relocation [Patricia Tassinari] c; doc/52m

1995        Harm's Way [Yan Cui] 16mm/?; short/16m

1995        The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red [Rick Raxlen] 16mm/c

1995        Marked Man [Marc F. Voizard] c; 2uc: Jürgen Baum

1996        Hang the DJ/Disc Jockey [Marco & Mauro La Villa] b&w-c; doc/90m; cph: Steve Beasse & Bill St. John; filmed October

                    1996-February 1997

1998        Running Home [Marc F. Voizard] c

1998        Sway [Paul Carrière] 16mm/c; short/17m

1999        Deep Cut [William Phillips] 16mm/c; short/19m

1999        Saint Jude [John L'Ecuyer] s16/c

2007        Diamonds in a Bucket [Sherry White] c; short/21m

2008        Spoiled [Sherry White] c; short/15m

2008        Crackie [Sherry White] c

1993        Sirens/La courte échelle [13 ep dir by various] 35-part series, 1993-95; other ph: Jack Wallner

1995        Little Criminals [Stephen Surjik] tvm

1995        Les nouveaux exploits d'Arsène Lupin [ep 'L'étrange demoiselle' dir by Marc F. Voizard] series

1995        Ready or Not/Les premières fois [13 ep dir by various] 65-part series, 1993-97; 4th season, 1996

1996        The Rez [19 ep dir by various] series

1996        My Hometown [11 ep dir by Jean Mercier] series

1996        Ready or Not/Les premières fois [13 ep dir by various] 5th season, 1997; see 1995

1998        The Adventures of Shirley Holmes [, Detective] [20 ep dir by various] 52-part series, 1997-2000

1998        Escape From Wildcat Canyon [Marc F. Voizard] tvm; 2uc: Guy Kinkead

1999        Cold Feet [ep dir by Nicole Holofcener] 6-part series; other ph: Roy H. Wagner (pilot) & Attila Szalay

1999        Cold Squad [various] 98-part series/s16, 1998-2005; 3rd season, 1999-2000; other ph: Paul Mitchnick & A.J. Vesak

2000        Cold Squad [various] 4th season, 2000-01; other ph: Paul Mitchnick & A.J. Vesak; see 1999

2001        Murder Among Friends/Isabella Rocks [Michael Kennedy] tvm

2001        Cold Squad [various] 5th season, 2001-02; other ph: Paul Mitchnick & A.J. Vesak; see 1999

2002        Cold Squad [various] 6th season, 2002-03; other ph: Paul Mitchnick & A.J. Vesak; see 1999; (1999-2003: Reizes ph a

                    total of 53 ep)

2003        [Zoe Busiek:] Wild Card [pilot dir by Stephen Surjik] 36-part series, 2003-05; 1st season, 2003-04; other ph: Milan

                    Podsedly & Albert Dunk

2003        Beautiful Girl [Douglas Barr] tvm/b&w-c

2004        Instant Star [ep #1-4 dir by Pat Williams] 52-part series/s16-to-HD, 2004-08; 1st season, 2004-05; other ph: Philip

                    Earnshaw

2004        Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery [Stephen Surjik] tvm/s16

2006        Rent-a-Goalie [ep #1 'The Arrivalist', #2 'The Irish Are Fags', #3 'Malta', #4 'Blue Balls', #5 'Bar Code', #6 'Shit Zone',

                    #7 'Going to the Chapel' & #8 'Fire in the Hole' dir by T.W. Peacocke] 26-part series/HD, 2006-08; 1st season, 2006

2006        Proof of Lies/Trace Evidence [Peter Svatek] tvm

2006        Tipping Point [Michel Poulette] tvm

2006        The Dresden Files [various] series, 2007; other ph: Alwyn Kumst

2007        Too Young to Marry [Michel Poulette] tvm

2007        I Me Wed/Marry Me [Craig Pryce] tvm

2007        Intelligence [6 ep dir by various] pilot (2005) + 25-part series, 2006-07; 2nd season, 2007

2008        Flashpoint [7 ep dir by various] series, 2008-present; 1st season, 2008 (9 ep); other ph: David Perrault

2008        Flashpoint [13 ep dir by various] 2nd season, 2009 (13 ep); see 2008

2009        Flashpoint [1 ep dir by David Frazee] 3rd season, 2009; see 2008

2009        Living in Your Car [David Steinberg] series, 2010; 1st season (13 ep); shooting started in September

1985        At the Wheel: Under the Influence/Facultés affaiblies [Paul Cowan; doc/69m] asst ed; ed: Margaret Wong; ph: P.

                    Cowan & Mike Mahoney

1986        Evixion [Bashar Shbib] co-scrpl; ph: David Wellington

1990        A Bullet in the Head [Attila Bertalan & John Kay] co-add c.op; ph: Michel Lamothe

2001        Cold Squad [dir/cph ep #67 'The Needle and the Debutante'] 5th season, 2001-02; cph: Michael Balfry; see Television

2002        Cold Squad [dir ep #78 'Flamers'] 6th season, 2002-03; ph: Michael Balfry; see Television