Peter Wintonick

Nascimento : 1953-01-01, Trenton, Ontario, Canada

Filmes

Wintopia
Director of Photography
IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard worker and often far from home, visiting festivals around the world. In 2013, he died after a short illness. His daughter Mira was left behind with a whole lot of questions, and a box full of videotapes that Wintonick shot for his Utopia project. She resolved to investigate what sort of film he envisaged, and to complete it for him.
Wintopia
Himself
IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard worker and often far from home, visiting festivals around the world. In 2013, he died after a short illness. His daughter Mira was left behind with a whole lot of questions, and a box full of videotapes that Wintonick shot for his Utopia project. She resolved to investigate what sort of film he envisaged, and to complete it for him.
Maneuvers in the Dark
Producer
Maneuvers in the Dark is the story of how three young Swedish entrepreneurs manage to sneak through the backdoor of North Korea in an attempt to produce jeans in the country, and of the spiraling repercussions that follow as they begin to trade with the worlds most sealed dictatorship.
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam
Editorial Consultant
Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans.
Capturing Reality
Himself
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?
Second Sight
Executive Producer
A non-fiction ghost story, featuring the last generation of Gaelic storytellers on Scotland's Isle of Skye.
Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News
Director of Photography
The impact of consumer video equipment on international political activism efforts.
Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News
Producer
The impact of consumer video equipment on international political activism efforts.
Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News
Writer
The impact of consumer video equipment on international political activism efforts.
Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News
Director
The impact of consumer video equipment on international political activism efforts.
Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment
Director
A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.
The Street
Executive Producer
The Street is a gritty portrait of 3 homeless men living on the streets near Guy metro in Montreal. Made over a period of 6 years, the film follows the ups and downs of these deteriorating lives and is an intense, intimate portrait of street life.
The Street
Editor
The Street is a gritty portrait of 3 homeless men living on the streets near Guy metro in Montreal. Made over a period of 6 years, the film follows the ups and downs of these deteriorating lives and is an intense, intimate portrait of street life.
Concision: No Time for New Ideas
Director of Photography
A Propaganda Model of the Media Plus Exploring Alternative Media
Director of Photography
A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor
Director of Photography
Noah Chomsky: Personal Influences
Director
Toward a Vision of a Future Society
Editor
Toward a Vision of a Future Society
Director
A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor
Editor
A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor
Producer
A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor
Director
A Propaganda Model of the Media Plus Exploring Alternative Media
Editor
A Propaganda Model of the Media Plus Exploring Alternative Media
Producer
A Propaganda Model of the Media Plus Exploring Alternative Media
Director
Concision: No Time for New Ideas
Editor
Concision: No Time for New Ideas
Producer
Concision: No Time for New Ideas
Director
Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech
Editor
Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech
Producer
Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech
Director
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Director of Photography
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Editor
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Producer
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Director
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution
Editor
A chronicle of the three points of a political triangle — the legal left, the illegal (armed) revolution, and the enemy which threatens them both: the armed reactionary right. It is 1987. The dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos has just been overthrown. Newly elected President Corazon Aquino struggles to wrench control of the country from her own military. A Rustling of Leaves poses the key question facing the revolutionaries and the Filipino Left: Should the People’s Movement continue the guerilla war, or do they dare enter legal politics and reveal the hidden face of the revolution?
The Journey
Editor
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it, as well as a meditation on the inherent bias of the media, and documentaries themselves.
Agência de Assassinos
Editor
A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
In Praise Of Older Women
Assistant Sound Editor
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
In Praise Of Older Women
Editor
Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.