Ian Toews
Producer, Director, D.O.P.
Internationally acclaimed documentarian Ian Toews has been making films and videos since 1996. His works are primarily concerned with the natural environment and often, its degradation. In 1997, he took his camera to the Navajo land of the US southwest to explore the legacy of the nuclear arms race. The resulting film, Four Corners, has gone on to screen at more than 50 film festivals and exhibitions in 17 countries and to television in 3. The film has won numerous awards including, in 2000, the Grand Prix at the prestigious Tampere International Film Festival. Toews was one of 13 Canadian visual artists representing Canada at the 2005 World Expo in Japan, where his short films Four Corners and Japan Kesei Line Single Take were presented.
Currently, Toews is the producer and director of the Gemini and CFTPA Indie Award-winning Landscape as Muse television series, which airs in Canada on Bravo!, SCN, Knowledge, CBC’s Bold & Documentary, ACCESS, AVRO (Netherlands) and The Arts Channel (New Zealand). With fifty-one half-hour episodes to date, featuring artists like Edward Burtynsky, Takao Tanabe, and Jane Ash Poitras, Landscape as Muse has become a significant record of visual arts in Canada. It is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, as well as numerous other galleries, museums, universities, and art colleges. Toews holds a BFA in film production from the University of Regina. |
