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Photo by Lois Siegel |
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STEPHEN REIZES CSC |
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.]
FILMS |
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1981 |
Second Story Man [Stephen Surjik] c; short/16m; prod CU |
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1981 |
Terminal Case [Ray Roth] c; short/22m; prod CU |
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1983 |
Trilogy [Bashar Shbib] 16mm/b&w; comp of 3 short films: 'Or'd'ur', 'Betsy' & 'Amour impossible'; + co-ed seg 'Betsy'; prod CU |
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1983 |
[Part Two of the Critical Years:] The Dexter Reports [Gérald L'Écuyer] 16mm/?; cph: Gérald L'Écuyer & Andrew Nevard; prod CU |
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1983 |
Lettre à Catherine [Marie Potvin] c; short/8m |
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1985 |
Cazalla de la sierra [Bashar Shbib] 16mm/c; doc/26m |
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1985 |
Sting of the Bee [Max Berdowski] c; short/12m |
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1986 |
Du pain et des jeux [Marie Potvin] c; short/15m |
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1988 |
The Expatriate/L'expatrie [James Dunnison] ?; short/22m |
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1988 |
Clair-obscur/The Stork [Bashar Shbib] c |
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1988 |
Horses in Winter [Rick Raxlen & Patrick Vallely] 16mm/c |
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1989 |
15 Ugly Sisters [Bashar Shbib] c |
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1989 |
Julia Has Two Lovers [Bashar Shbib] c; addph: Geza Sinkovics |
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1989 |
Crack Me Up [Bashar Shbib] c; released 1994 |
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199? |
Fun and Games [D. Terry] c |
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1990 |
You're Driving Me Crazy [Michel Wachniuc] c; comp of 3 shorts (or tv-ep?); cph: Bruno Philip |
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1990 |
Lana in Love [Bashar Shbib] c |
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1991 |
Love $ Greed/Swift and Natural [Bashar Shbib] c |
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1991 |
With Friends Like These... [Chris Malazdrewicz, Tom Parkinson & Alain Zaloum] c/V; 3 seg; other ph: Michel Lamothe & Bruno Philip |
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1991 |
Canvas [: The Fine Art of Crime] [Alain Zaloum] c |
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1992 |
Rockhead's Paradise [Marie Potvin] ?; doc/?m |
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1992 |
Gambit/La combine [F.W. Samms] c; short/8m |
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1993 |
Lip Gloss [Lois Siegel] c; doc/68m; cph: Jean-Yves Dion, Glen MacPherson, Andrew Nevard & Daniel Villeneuve |
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1993 |
The Paper Boy [Douglas Jackson] c; 2uc; ph: Rodney Gibbons |
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1994 |
Relative Fear/The Child [George Mihalka] c; co-2uc; ph: Rodney Gibbons |
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1994 |
Silent Hunter [Fred Williamson] c; cph: Curtis Petersen |
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1994 |
Broken Promises - The High Arctic Relocation [Patricia Tassinari] c; doc/52m |
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1995 |
Harm's Way [Yan Cui] 16mm/?; short/16m |
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1995 |
The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red [Rick Raxlen] 16mm/c |
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1995 |
Marked Man [Marc F. Voizard] c; 2uc: Jürgen Baum |
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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 |
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1998 |
Running Home [Marc F. Voizard] c |
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1998 |
Sway [Paul Carrière] 16mm/c; short/17m |
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1999 |
Deep Cut [William Phillips] 16mm/c; short/19m |
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1999 |
Saint Jude [John L'Ecuyer] s16/c |
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2007 |
Diamonds in a Bucket [Sherry White] c; short/21m |
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2008 |
Spoiled [Sherry White] c; short/15m |
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2008 |
Crackie [Sherry White] c |
TELEVISION |
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1993 |
Sirens/La courte échelle [13 ep dir by various] 35-part series, 1993-95; other ph: Jack Wallner |
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1995 |
Little Criminals [Stephen Surjik] tvm |
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1995 |
Les nouveaux exploits d'Arsène Lupin [ep 'L'étrange demoiselle' dir by Marc F. Voizard] series |
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1995 |
Ready or Not/Les premières fois [13 ep dir by various] 65-part series, 1993-97; 4th season, 1996 |
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1996 |
The Rez [19 ep dir by various] series |
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1996 |
My Hometown [11 ep dir by Jean Mercier] series |
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1996 |
Ready or Not/Les premières fois [13 ep dir by various] 5th season, 1997; see 1995 |
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1998 |
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes [, Detective] [20 ep dir by various] 52-part series, 1997-2000 |
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1998 |
Escape From Wildcat Canyon [Marc F. Voizard] tvm; 2uc: Guy Kinkead |
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1999 |
Cold Feet [ep dir by Nicole Holofcener] 6-part series; other ph: Roy H. Wagner (pilot) & Attila Szalay |
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1999 |
Cold Squad [various] 98-part series/s16, 1998-2005; 3rd season, 1999-2000; other ph: Paul Mitchnick & A.J. Vesak |
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2000 |
Cold Squad [various] 4th season, 2000-01; other ph: Paul Mitchnick & A.J. Vesak; see 1999 |
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2001 |
Murder Among Friends/Isabella Rocks [Michael Kennedy] tvm |
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2001 |
Cold Squad [various] 5th season, 2001-02; other ph: Paul Mitchnick & A.J. Vesak; see 1999 |
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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) |
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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 |
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2003 |
Beautiful Girl [Douglas Barr] tvm/b&w-c |
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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 |
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2004 |
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery [Stephen Surjik] tvm/s16 |
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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 |
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2006 |
Proof of Lies/Trace Evidence [Peter Svatek] tvm |
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2006 |
Tipping Point [Michel Poulette] tvm |
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2006 |
The Dresden Files [various] series, 2007; other ph: Alwyn Kumst |
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[Right] with Michel Poulette - "Too Young to Marry" - photo by Lois Siegel |
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2007 |
Too Young to Marry [Michel Poulette] tvm |
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2007 |
I Me Wed/Marry Me [Craig Pryce] tvm |
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2007 |
Intelligence [6 ep dir by various] pilot (2005) + 25-part series, 2006-07; 2nd season, 2007 |
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2008 |
Flashpoint [7 ep dir by various] series, 2008-present; 1st season, 2008 (9 ep); other ph: David Perrault |
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2008 |
Flashpoint [13 ep dir by various] 2nd season, 2009 (13 ep); see 2008 |
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2009 |
Flashpoint [1 ep dir by David Frazee] 3rd season, 2009; see 2008 |
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2009 |
Living in Your Car [David Steinberg] series, 2010; 1st season (13 ep); shooting started in September |
MISCELLANEOUS [e.g. as director] |
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1985 |
At the Wheel: Under the Influence/Facultés affaiblies [Paul Cowan; doc/69m] asst ed; ed: Margaret Wong; ph: P. Cowan & Mike Mahoney |
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1986 |
Evixion [Bashar Shbib] co-scrpl; ph: David Wellington |
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1990 |
A Bullet in the Head [Attila Bertalan & John Kay] co-add c.op; ph: Michel Lamothe |
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2001 |
Cold Squad [dir/cph ep #67 'The Needle and the Debutante'] 5th season, 2001-02; cph: Michael Balfry; see Television |
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2002 |
Cold Squad [dir ep #78 'Flamers'] 6th season, 2002-03; ph: Michael Balfry; see Television |