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His film ''[[Strand: Under the Dark Cloth]]'' won the [[Genie Award]] for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary|Best Feature-Length Documentary]] at the [[11th Genie Awards]] in 1990,<ref name=canenc/> and he won [[Gemini Award]]s in 1992 for ''Leningradskaya: The Hand of Stalin''<ref>"CBC drama tops Gemini ceremonies". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 9, 1992.</ref> and 1996 for ''[[Utshimassits: Place of the Boss]]''.
 
He was also a Genie Award nominee for [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Achievement in Direction|Best Director]] at the [[10th Genie Awards]] in 1989 for ''[[A Winter Tan]]'', a collective film that he codirected and coproduced with [[Louise Clark]], [[Jackie Burroughs]], [[Aerlyn Weissman]] and [[John Frizzell]],<ref>"Dead Ringers tops Genie picks". ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'', February 14, 1989.</ref> and his film ''[[The Fairy Faith]]'' was a nominee for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the [[21st Genie Awards]] in 2001.<ref>"Maelstrom storms the Genies". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', December 13, 2000.</ref>
 
His other films have included ''Chambers: Tracks and Gestures'', ''Distress Signals'', ''[[Calling the Shots]]'', ''[[Utshimassits: Place of the Boss]]'', ''God's Dominion: Shepherds to the Flock'', ''[[Men of the Deeps]]'', ''[[Passage (2008 film)|Passage]],'' ''Quebec My Country Mon Pays'' and ''[[Assholes: A Theory (film)|Assholes: A Theory]]''. In 2011 he was a participant in the [[National Parks Project]], collaborating with musicians [[Chad Ross]], [[Sophie Trudeau (musician)|Sophie Trudeau]] and [[Dale Morningstar]] on a short film about [[Prince Edward Island National Park]].<ref>"The parks are alive with the sound of indie music". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 20, 2011.</ref>