Canadian filmmaker, editor and producer (1933–2002)
Don Haig
Born
Donald George Haig
(1933-07-22)22 July 1933
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died
2 March 2002(2002-03-02) (aged 68)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)
Film producer Film editor
Years active
1955 - 1998
Awards
Governor General's Awards Academy Award Genie Award
Don Haig (22 July 1933 — 2 March 2002) was a Canadian filmmaker, editor, and producer.
Haig's work in film and television spanned nearly five decades. Over the course of his career, he won Academy, Genie,[1] and Gemini awards, and the Governor General's Performing Arts Award.
Haig was known as the "godfather of Canadian film" for nurturing young talent and producing many award-winning films. He is recognized by some as "the most important person on the Canadian film scene," helping create over 500 films.[2]
^Topalovich, Maria (2000). And the Genie Goes To... Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film awards. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Company Ltd. p. 249. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
^"Don Haig". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
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Documentary Festival, where producer Alison Duke was named winner of the DonHaig Award. It subsequently screened at the 2024 Inside Out Film and Video Festival...
focusing on the early days of local comic lore, with partner Hirsh. With DonHaig, he scripted and directed 125 Rooms of Comfort, another live-action project...
Moore. All three of the principals in the firm have been winners of the DonHaig Award for independent documentary film production from the Hot Docs Canadian...
Choice Awards and Canadian Screen Awards. Fichman was the recipient of the DonHaig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 2018...
Boston Underground Film Festival. In 2012, she was named the winner of the DonHaig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Donovan...
Heroes of Movie Sound – Film Arts and Movement Films, DonHaig and Terry Burke producers, DonHaig director Cities: Glenn Gould's Toronto – John McGreevy...
pre-Confederation debates. The film was produced by Paul Pope, with executive producer DonHaig. The film was shot in Petty Harbour and St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada...
- Diminutive Smalls (Season 4) Grossology - Andy Spliced - Peri 2005 DonHaig Award "Lovechild (1995)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original...
honoured by the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival with its DonHaig Award, recognizing his "creative vision and entrepreneurship, as well as...
Philip Lyall, her collaborator on 65 Redroses, were named winners of the DonHaig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Mukerji's...
Pool, A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) Don Owen, Unfinished Business Air Canada Award: DonHaig Golden Reel Award: The Dog Who Stopped the War...
Sheila Nevins (2009), Nick Fraser (2008), and Rudy Buttignol (2007) The DonHaig Award is presented to a Canadian producer with a film in the festival,...
films ever produced about the war, with editing by DonHaig. Earlier, the creative team of Fox and Haig, along with cameramen Richard Leiterman, John Foster...
Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri, Georgina Haig, and Josh Quong Tart. Incorporating elements of documentary filmmaking and...
the run and hides out in the small town where he grew up. John Vernon as Don "Luce" Luciano Kate Vernon as Mindy Al Waxman as Sam Margot Kidder as Dolores...
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