Evan Beloff

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Evan Beloff is a Canadian film writer/producer/director and production company executive.

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[edit] Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Evan Beloff graduated from Concordia University with a double major in Playwriting and Theatre. Since then, he has worked as a writer, actor, director, script editor and producer. He has written plays for the theatre (see Credits section below) and scripts for film. He is a former researcher, archivist and cameraman for Steven Spielberg's visual history archives of World War II (The Shoah Foundation. More recently he has moved into the world of docu-series, mockumentaries and documentary film writing, directing and production.

In 1998 Beloff co-founded the Montreal film-house Diversus Productions and in 1999 co-produced the Felix Award-winning music video (Best music video, Quebec) La Vie est Laide for Quebec rock star Jean Leloup. In 2000-2001 Beloff served as the Producer and Second Unit Director for the Gemini Award-nominated documentary Too Colorful for the League: A History of Blacks in Hockey for the CBC. Then, in 2002, he produced, starred in and narrated the festival hit mockumentary Schmelvis: Searching for the King's Jewish Roots (Nodance, HBO Comedy Arts Fest).

In 2002 and 2003 Beloff co-produced, wrote and directed the popular 19 part documentary series (two seasons) Women Warriors for WTSN, SCN, CBC, Radio Canada and CFCF12/CTV. He also produced an episode of Life & Times for CBC on one of Canada's most famous poets, Irving Layton. In 2003 Beloff co-produced the reality comedy-documentary Cruising Quebec for Global, and produced, co-wrote and co-directed the mockumentary The Legend of Memphre for Space and City TV. In 2004 he co-produced "Being Osama" for CBC's Passionate Eye, RDI and Al Arabiya. His final documentary project at Diversus was an architecture and leisure documentary for Global titled "Winter Wonderland: The Making of the Ice Hotel". Beloff wrote, directed and produced the film which is distributed by the National Film Board of Canada and broadcast internationally on such channels as: HBO Europe, Spektrum TV RT Hungary, CPS Czech Republic, TVC Spain, NHK Japan and TV2 in France

In 2005 Beloff relinquished partnership in Diversus Productions to establish his own company, Ontic Media Inc. and has since written, directed and produced (in collaboration with Bunbury Film's Frederic Bohbot) the award-winning, biopic thriller, Once a Nazi on former Waffen SS soldier turned professor Adalbert Lallier for SCN, CTV, Canal D, CLT, American Public Television / PBS and distributed internationally by the National Film Board of Canada • Once a Nazi... was recently awarded the 2006 J. I Segal Award for Canadian, Jewish-Themed Film of the Year .

In 2007 he is set to produce the documentaries Quitter le Bercail (Leaving the Fold) by acclaimed director Eric Scott for Radio Canada, and the biopic "Chasing Dov" on controversial Montreal fashion mogul and founder of American Apparel, Dov Charney for Canal D and CBC. Beloff is also producing "Killer Gold" a Yukon murder thriller for CBC West (directed by Bunbury Film's Frederic Bohbot) and co-writing/producing/directing an update of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch legend titled "Bigfoot's Reflection" for CHUM, City TV, CLT, Space and SCN *World Premiere Broadcast slated for May 07*

Evan is also the recipient of a prestigious CTV Producer's Fellowship from the Banff International Television Festival (2000).

[edit] Credits

[edit] Plays

  • The Wait, produced by Vilna Players
  • Never by Rightime Productions
  • Natural Times , produced by the OK Theatre

[edit] Films

  • Winter Wonderland: Making of the Ice Hotel
  • Schmelvis: Searching for the King's Jewish Roots
  • Too Colorful for the League: A History of Blacks in Hockey
  • Cruising Quebec
  • The Legend of Memphre
  • Being Osama
  • Once a Nazi
  • Quitter le Bercail (Leaving the Fold)

[edit] Television

  • Women Warriors
  • Life & Times: Irving Layton

[edit] Music videos

  • La Vie est Laide

[edit] Sources and references

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