Nick Hector

Nick Hector is a DGC, CCE, HotDocs and multi-Gemini Award winning Canadian film editor, story editor and Genie Award nominated producer.

Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini for editing King’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" and Gemini Award-winning Dying at Grace – which the Toronto International Film Festival described as “one of the best films ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God . He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on Yvan Patry’s Hot Docs Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson’s Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary editing.

Hector's credits include Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning Crimes of the Heart; Min Sook Lee’s Hot Docs "Best Canadian Feature" Hogtown; and Allan King’s TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company. He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner Monsoon.

In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries Wiebo's War, Thay - The Teacher, War Surgeon, Actuality and the award-winning El Chogui. He served as series producer for Birth Stories and Love is Not Enough and co-director of the CSA Award winning series War Story. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for Wiebo's War.

Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Canadian Cinema Editors honours society. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Filmography

Awards and recognition

References

Canadian Who's Who , University of Toronto Press, 2011.

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