Mark Sawers is a Canadian film director and writer."A short life in Cannes : Vancouver film-maker Mark Sawers enjoys acclaim at the world's most famous film festival -- and obscurity at home. That's the price he pays for making short films". Vancouver Sun, May 21, 1999. Best known for his feature films Camera Shy and No Men Beyond This Point,"Director Mark Sawers explores extinction in No Men Beyond This Point". The Georgia Straight, September 23, 2015. he is also a four-time Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama for his films Stroke at the 13th Genie Awards,"French-Canadian films steal Genie show: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch leads the pack with 11 nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 14, 1992. Hate Mail at the 14th Genie Awards,"Genie nominations". Calgary Herald, October 20, 1993. Shoes Off! at the 19th Genie Awards"They dream of Genies". Halifax Daily News, December 8, 1998. and Lonesome Joe at the 24th Genie Awards.Katherine Monk, "Time for Genie to come out of the bottle with a bit more pizzazz". CanWest News Service, April 29, 2004.
Shoes Off also won the Canal+ Award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival."Belgian movie wins top prize at Cannes; Toronto's Egoyan misses ceremony when film shut out". Toronto Star, May 24, 1999.
As a television director, his credits have included segments of The Kids in the Hall, and episodes of Alienated,"Sci-fi TV comedy filmed in Saanich opens on New VI". Victoria Times-Colonist, September 4, 2003. Alice, I Think, About a Girl, The Assistants, Mr. Young and Anticlimax.
From Vancouver, British Columbia, Sawers is a graduate of the University of British Columbia."Film-maker Mark Sawers tastes big time in Cannes". Vancouver Sun, May 12, 1993.
Filmography Absolute Trash: A Recycling Story - 1980 The Middle Child - 1989 Stroke - 1992 Hate Mail - 1993 Shoes Off! - 1998 Lonesome Joe - 2002 Exposed - 2010 Camera Shy - 2012 No Men Beyond This Point - 2015 Call from Josie - 2017
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