Peter Wronski
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Peter Vronsky Peter Wronski
Canadian filmmaker, artist, writer and historian.
Born in Toronto 1956.
1970s: Film writer for magazine Cinema Canada and University of Toronto's Varsity; Member of Toronto Film Coop; studied with Canadian directors Don Shebib, Clarke Mackey, and Peter Pearson; wrote and directed two thirty-minute short drama films starring Paul Young from the Cardboard Brains: American Nights (1976) and The Sheep-Eaters (1977); Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council Grants; directed and produced thirty-minute music documentary special on punk rock for CBC television Crash’n’Burn (Dada’s Boys)(1977) with the Viletones, Teenage Head, Dishes, The Ramones and The Deadboys, filmed at CBGB in New York and the New Yorker Theater and Crash’n’Burn in Toronto. Produced and directed feature film, Bad Company (Fast Company)(1978). Assistant-Director on Canadian feature films: Nothing Personal (1979), The Last Chase (1979) and Screwballs (1981).
1980s: Created numerous videoart tapes and formal video installationsexhibited in Canada and internationally in Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, New York and London. Artist-in-residence with Sony Corporation at Video/Culture International, 1983. Undercover video specialist – field producer with CBC’s The Fifth Estate and CTV’s W-5. Head of Interactive Laser Optical Software Development, Sony Corporation-Video/Culture, 1984-1985. Project Director, Berlin Wall Videodisc, Sony Canada-Image Over Time, 1985. Field Producer/Cameraman, CNN International, Rome Bureau, 1986-1990. Producer-director, Russian Rock Underground, a thirty-minute special on rock music in the Soviet Union, 1988.
1990s: Writer-producer-director, Mondo Moscow, feature length documentary on Stalinism and underground culture in the USSR, 1991. In 1991 investigates Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in the USSR in 1959-1962--first Westerner ever to inteview Oswald's friends, lovers and acquaintances in Russia. Cameraman-line producer, The Hunt for Red Mercury, investigative one-hour documentary (Discovery Channel - CTV) on nuclear weapons material smuggling in Chechnya, 1992. Writer-director, The Uncanadians, NFB feature documentary 1994-1995. (Withdraws own name from director’s credit when censored by National Film Board.) Head of English Language Production, Panavideo, Venice Italy – service producer for Italy’s national television network, RAI, 1997-1999.
2000s: Queens Park/Toronto Bureau Chief, E-Press, Canada's first online news streaming service, 2000. Broadband Content Specialist, Canada-Invest.com, financial news streaming service, 2000-2001. Author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters, Berkley-Penguin Books (2004) and Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters, Berkley-Penguin Books (2007).
Currently PhD candidate in Canadian and Criminal Justice history and security-intelligence studies at University of Toronto, History Department, where his doctoral dissertation deals with the early history of the Toronto Police and its intelligence functions during the Fenian threat. Instructor at Ryerson University in the history of the Third Reich and international relations between the two world wars.
Peter Vronsky resides in Toronto and Venice, Italy.
