Anne Wheeler
Nacimiento : 1946-09-23, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Historia
Anne Wheeler, OC (born September 23, 1946 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director. Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years of travels inspired her to become a storyteller and when she returned she joined a group of old friends to form a film collective. For most of the seventies, she made documentaries, including A War Story for the National Film Board which was about her father, Ben Wheeler and his time as a doctor in a P.O.W. camp. In the eighties she turned to dramatic films, beginning with Teach Me to Dance, about an unlikely friendship between two girls from different cultures.
In addition to her films, she has directed episodes of Cold Squad, Da Vinci's Inquest, Mysterious Ways, This Is Wonderland and The Guard.
She has been awarded six honorary doctorates and in 1995, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Bridget and Amelia, set up by their parents, pretend that they are dating to make their families happy for the holidays.
Director
An engaged couple who have been together since their days as high school sweethearts in a close-knit mountain town, but have found themselves in a rut and out of love.
Executive Producer
Five hundred miles north of Vancouver is Kitamaat, an Indian reservation in the homeland of the Haisla people. Growing up a tough, wild tomboy, swimming, fighting, and fishing in a remote village where the land slips into the green ocean on the edge of the world, Lisamarie has always been different. Visited by ghosts and shapeshifters, tormented by premonitions, she can't escape the sense that something terrible is waiting for her. She recounts her enchanted yet scarred life as she journeys in her speedboat up the frigid waters of the Douglas Channel. She is searching for her brother, dead by drowning, and in her own way running as fast as she can toward danger. Circling her brother's tragic death are the remarkable characters that make up her family: Lisamarie's parents, struggling to join their Haisla heritage with Western ways; Uncle Mick, a Native rights activist and devoted Elvis fan; and the headstrong Ma-ma-oo (Haisla for "grandmother"), a guardian of tradition.
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A Anna le disgusta la noticia de que su tía Belle vaya a casarse con Martin, un veterano y mujeriego actor. Por ello no dudará en regresar a Seattle para detener la boda. Allí conocerá a Clay, el hijo de Martin, quien también quiere impedir el enlace.
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Un famoso cantante de country que se va a casar con una glamorosa actriz de Hollywood regresa a sus raíces en un pequeño pueblo. Cuando se cruza con su novia de la infancia y finalmente se siente inspirado para escribir canciones nuevamente, vuelve a evaluar su vida, sus valores y su opinión sobre el amor verdadero. A medida que se acerca el día de su boda, debe decidir si ha elegido a la mujer adecuada para ser su esposa.
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Después de que el cáncer reclame la vida de Matt Kell el día de Navidad de 2005, su viuda, Gina y dos niños pequeños se quedan para hacer frente al dolor de su pérdida, mientras que su comunidad cercana de la iglesia se reúne alrededor de ellos para darles apoyo.
Self
Director and editor Anne Wheeler reflects on her early documentaries with the NFB, the birth of the North West and Prairie Studios and working with Donald Sutherland.
Director Anne Wheeler joins actress Babz Chula on a trip to India to rid herself of cancer.
Self
Director Anne Wheeler joins actress Babz Chula on a trip to India to rid herself of cancer.
Director
Director Anne Wheeler joins actress Babz Chula on a trip to India to rid herself of cancer.
Director
Dos hermanas distanciadas deciden dejar de lado sus diferencias para salvar la floristería de su madre y de su difunto padre, quien les había ocultado la enfermedad cardíaca que padecía.
Writer
Los residentes de una pequeña ciudad canadiense se unen para cavar una trinchera de varias millas de largo a través de lo profundo de la nieve para rescatar a dos famélicos caballos que fueron abandonados.
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Los residentes de una pequeña ciudad canadiense se unen para cavar una trinchera de varias millas de largo a través de lo profundo de la nieve para rescatar a dos famélicos caballos que fueron abandonados.
Director
Dan Barnes, es un boxeador retirado que trabaja como conserje en una escuela, y trata de ayudar al nuevo estudiante del centro educativo, principal objetivo de los abusones. A la vez que el joven aprende a pelear y a oponerse a sus acosadores, Dan encuentra una vía para hacer frente a su pasado ...
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Two mortal enemies must band together to defend the ranch they've both staked their claim on.
Director
Emily, una esposa y madre dedicada, acaba de enterarse de que padece cáncer de mama. Pese al apoyo de su familia, necesitará volver a soñar para luchar contra la enfermedad. Antes de casarse, Emily tenía aspiraciones y el talento necesario para ser una buena cantante o compositora, pero abandonó su sueño para casarse, aunque sigue en contacto con la música como profesora. En este momento tan difícil de su vida, un nuevo amigo la animará a dejar de pasar por su vida sin vivirla apasionada y hará que vuelva a soñar
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Martha (Katie Boland), 18, sees the world as animated and fun. She has a form of autism that means she is a mathematical genuis whilst incapable of looking after herself. Living in a dull routinewith her cousin Nicole (Brooke Burns), and mother Josephine (Amanda Tapping), she sees the good in everything and everyone. But suddenly, her mother is the casualty of a brutal crime before her eyes and Martha is sent to a foster home. Nicole is distraught and battle for custody of her cousin, but the police constantly block her requests. Finally, Detective Velez relents, on one condition: Martha must help solve the crime and find justice for her fallen mother.
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Una amiga de Jen muere y ella suplanta su identidad para huir de su marido. Su amiga se había prometido a un granjero que sólo conocía por carta y ella viaja hasta el pueblo y se hace pasar por ella.
Director
Sidney Foster es una adolescente problemática que se rebela contra todo tipo de autoridad. Su madre decide enviarla a pasar las vacaciones con su ex marido, que vive en un pueblo de Minnesota junto a su nueva familia.
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Cuando unos grandes almacenes encargan por error 60.000 luces de Navidad, un trabajador llamado Lou Boyd tiene una brillante idea: propone una competición de decoración para acabar con el exceso de stock. La idea le encanta al propietario, un hombre frío y materialista, al que no le importa crear una guerra entre los vecinos. Lo que el jefe no sabe es que la batalla por la mejor decoración está a punto de darle una lección sobre el verdadero significado de las Navidades.
Self
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
Writer
The story of a fictional town suffering from an outbreak of severe water contamination.
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The story of a fictional town suffering from an outbreak of severe water contamination.
Writer
1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives exhausted at the fort, a wilderness station, claiming she murdered her husband. She's placed in a cell; for the next several months, she sews while the local prefect, Henry Mullen, investigates.
Director
Tells the true story of a bungled and obstructed police manhunt for a serial killer who could and should have been imprisoned after his first crime. Two young RCMP officers, each separately investigating a rape and murder, captured the culprit, but because of legal red tape, jurisdictional chaos and incompetence, the suspect was allowed to continue his rampage until he was finally arrested and imprisoned - several murders later.
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1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives exhausted at the fort, a wilderness station, claiming she murdered her husband. She's placed in a cell; for the next several months, she sews while the local prefect, Henry Mullen, investigates.
Executive Producer
A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.
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A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.
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Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The full "Preludes" anthology was screened on the web in November 2000, and was given theatrical retrospectives at the TIFF Lightbox in the subsequent years.
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Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young lover, who begins seeing a woman his age behind June's back.
Writer
Anne Wheeler’s short links filmmaking to the pain and turmoil of giving birth.
Director
Anne Wheeler’s short links filmmaking to the pain and turmoil of giving birth.
Director
Dos atractivas jóvenes, Maggie y Kim, se conocen en Vancouver, comienzan un apasionado romance y se van a vivir juntas. Mientras tanto, Lila, la ingenua y conservadora madre de Maggie, se divorcia y decide irse a vivir con su hija. Será entonces cuando descubra la verdad sobre su hija y su poco convencional grupo de amigas. (FILMAFFINITY)
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At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques. Twenty-five years later, the last nine survivors of those gruesome experiments fight to expose the truth...of The Sleep Room.
Producer
Real-life account of a Canadian hero, a determined female truck driver who took on the mob-controlled leadership of the International Teamsters Union.
Executive Producer
Real-life account of a Canadian hero, a determined female truck driver who took on the mob-controlled leadership of the International Teamsters Union.
Teleplay
Real-life account of a Canadian hero, a determined female truck driver who took on the mob-controlled leadership of the International Teamsters Union.
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The Story of a Japanese-Canadian woman who finds friendship after her family is interned to a small town during World War II.
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A doctor's relationship with a terminally ill child adds pressure to her already rocky marriage as she spends more time with her patient and gradually neglects her home life.
Director
A Canadian boy comes of age and investigates a mystery in 1945.
Producer
Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when husband returns from war. Story watches the progression of the band as it grows into a popular, successful recording and touring group. Excellent music and soundtrack.
Writer
Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when husband returns from war. Story watches the progression of the band as it grows into a popular, successful recording and touring group. Excellent music and soundtrack.
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Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when husband returns from war. Story watches the progression of the band as it grows into a popular, successful recording and touring group. Excellent music and soundtrack.
Self
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Director
A father and son struggle to make ends meet on the rodeo circuit.
Story
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
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Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
Writer
This movie discusses the growth and discovery of a young girl named Vanessa, as she learns more about her father's side of the family.
Director
This movie discusses the growth and discovery of a young girl named Vanessa, as she learns more about her father's side of the family.
Producer
This short documentary focuses on the children of alcoholics. In the relaxed environment of a mountain campsite, a group of young people discuss their anger and frustration, and talk about their struggle to cope with the problems created by their parents' drinking. By sharing their experiences, they open a door for others like them. Aimed primarily at an audience of elementary school children and older, this film provides an excellent vehicle for generating discussion about alcohol abuse and the family.
Writer
A War Story es un docudrama canadiense de 1981 producido, escrito y dirigido por Anne Wheeler. Cuenta la historia de su padre, el mayor Ben Wheeler, cuando fue capturado por los japoneses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Director
A War Story es un docudrama canadiense de 1981 producido, escrito y dirigido por Anne Wheeler. Cuenta la historia de su padre, el mayor Ben Wheeler, cuando fue capturado por los japoneses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Producer
A woman is forcibly placed in Priory, as the filmmakers follow her struggles to adapt.
Editor
Kelly is a Métis man without treaty or hunting rights, struggling to sustain his traditional life. His daughter Theresa longs for a red dress from France that she believes will give her power and strength, as the bear claw once did for her great-grandfather Muskwa. When Theresa escapes an assault and Kelly turns his back on his daughter, he realizes that he must reconnect with his culture in order to make things right. Today, the red dress is a powerful symbol recognizing over 1000 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.
Director
In this drama, Lesia convinces her English-Canadian friend Sarah to perform a Ukrainian dance with her as part of their school's Christmas pageant. Sarah's father, angry at the growing number of Ukrainian settlers, won't allow his daughter to participate. Despite the prejudices of their parents, the girls' friendship remains strong, and they meet in Sarah's barn to celebrate Christmas Day together. Part of the Adventures in History series.
Editor
This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin without running water or electricity. Augusta is a non-status Shuswap Indian living in the Williams Lake area of British Columbia. She recalls past times, but lives very much in the present. Self-sufficient, dedicated to her people, she spreads warmth wherever she moves, with her songs and her harmonica.
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This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin without running water or electricity. Augusta is a non-status Shuswap Indian living in the Williams Lake area of British Columbia. She recalls past times, but lives very much in the present. Self-sufficient, dedicated to her people, she spreads warmth wherever she moves, with her songs and her harmonica.
Director
This short film is an ode to the women who settled the Prairies, from the days of early immigration to 1916 - when Manitobans became the first women in Canada to receive the provincial vote - and beyond. Recollections of women are complemented by a series of quotations drawn from letters, diaries, and newspapers of the day, which are spoken over re-enacted scenes and archival photographs.
Editor
Visually seductive, this film uncovers a few hard truths under the packaging. Dr. Vladimir Krajina, botanist and teacher, is waging a successful battle in British Columbia for the creation of ecological reserves. He explains the importance of such sanctuaries and why people must know and respect nature's laws if the future needs of industry and the desire for a high quality of life are to be reconciled.
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Morag Gunn (Sonja Smits), a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence with Jules (Tom Jackson). While she and Jules have known each other since childhood, he is no rock of stability. In addition, he is white, while she is part Native American, so the teenage Morag (Mairon Bennett) experienced racism he can only imagine. Even after they have a daughter, she struggles against the emptiness within her.
