Mort Ransen

Nacimiento : 1933-08-16,

Películas

Stories We Tell
Storyteller
La actriz y cineasta canadiense Sarah Polley investiga ciertos secretos relacionados con su madre, entrevistando a un grupo de familiares y amigos cuya fiabilidad varía en función de su implicación en los hechos, que son recordados de diferentes maneras; de modo que siempre queda un rastro de preguntas por responder, porque la memoria es algo cambiante y a menudo el descubrimiento de la verdad depende de quién esté contando la historia.
My Father's Angel
Producer
A Bosnian Muslim and a Bosnian Serb family have come to Vancouver to find peaceful new lives only to find themselves embroiled in the ethnic conflict they left behind.
Touched
Director
A young man runs from the voices in his head into the arms of an elderly cowgirl.
El museo de Margaret
Producer
Margaret MacNeil es una joven marginal que vive en un pueblo de mineros en Nueva Escocia, en el límite de la civilización. Margaret cosechó durante su vida su odio a las minas, las cuales mataron a su padre y a su hermano, amargando para siempre la vida de su madre. Pero la vida de Margaret se transforma cuando se enamora de Neil, un corpulento y alcohólico minero.
El museo de Margaret
Screenplay
Margaret MacNeil es una joven marginal que vive en un pueblo de mineros en Nueva Escocia, en el límite de la civilización. Margaret cosechó durante su vida su odio a las minas, las cuales mataron a su padre y a su hermano, amargando para siempre la vida de su madre. Pero la vida de Margaret se transforma cuando se enamora de Neil, un corpulento y alcohólico minero.
El museo de Margaret
Director
Margaret MacNeil es una joven marginal que vive en un pueblo de mineros en Nueva Escocia, en el límite de la civilización. Margaret cosechó durante su vida su odio a las minas, las cuales mataron a su padre y a su hermano, amargando para siempre la vida de su madre. Pero la vida de Margaret se transforma cuando se enamora de Neil, un corpulento y alcohólico minero.
Falling Over Backwards
Writer
All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.
Falling Over Backwards
Director
All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.
Shades of Love: Tangerine Taxi
Director
An odd cab driver learns that a research scientist is in dire need of funding and reveals himself to be an eccentric philanthropist in disguise. Happiness ensues.
Los colores del amor: Sinceramente Violeta
Director
La profesora Elizabeth Prentice intenta convencer a Mark Jamison de que uno de sus antepasados, que firmó la Declaración de Independencia, era una mujer, así que intenta robar unos documentos para poder analizarlos. Atrapada "in fraganti", se hace pasar por Violeta, una ladrona de gatos con la mente perturbada. Pronto, Mark se enamora de Violeta. Cuando ella le desvela su verdadera personalidad, él se sentirá profundamente herido, pero terminará amando a Elizabeth tanto como a Violeta. (KLHV)
Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky
Director
A professor is harassed by a man who is convinced he is Jewish.
Bayo
Writer
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew.
Bayo
Director
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew.
The Masculine Mystique
Mort
This feature-length drama explores the changing role of men in today's society by delving into the stories of 4 men and their relationships with women.
The Street
This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.
You Are on Indian Land
Assistant Director
The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases - a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794 - Kanien'kéhaka protesters blocked the international bridge between Ontario and New York State.
Falling from Ladders
Director
Swedish people read aloud from the Statistical Year Book.
Christopher's Movie Matinee
Director
When a camera crew are sent to document hippie protests in Yorkville, Canada's counter-culture capital, they are charmed by a group of misunderstood kids with their own ideas about what kind of movie to make.
The Circle
Script
Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to get along without drugs. Uncompromising, often brutal group therapy sessions are designed to shake loose the excuses a victim makes for himself. The people and situations shown are authentic; only one actor was employed. The results obtained at Daytop are regarded by some psychiatrists as a breakthrough.
The Circle
Director
Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to get along without drugs. Uncompromising, often brutal group therapy sessions are designed to shake loose the excuses a victim makes for himself. The people and situations shown are authentic; only one actor was employed. The results obtained at Daytop are regarded by some psychiatrists as a breakthrough.
Shades of Love: The Emerald Tear
Director
Journalist Jayne Manley tries to get back the job she lost. She leaves to investigate a millionaire who is rumored to have bought a precious gem, the Emerald Tear. If she can find proof of this, the scoop would ensure a new job at the newspaper. But Jayne and Edward fall madly in love and the secret of her true identity is revealed.