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Biography Roy Cross, Roy Cross grew up in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, home of North America’s longest running short film festival. He found himself making Super 8 films in highschool where an interest in punk rock, fast cars and the pursuit of the plastic arts snuffed out a promising career as a grocery clerk. Since receiving a Fine Arts degree from the University of Regina in 1988, he has written, produced and directed short films over the past 20 years. His films have played Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, New York, Paris and other festivals around the world. In 1994, after a three-year stay in Banff, Alberta, he moved to Montreal where he completed a Master’s Degree in Fine Art at Concordia University. In 2002, Roy accepted a full-time faculty position at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal where he teaches writing, sound and film production courses. Roy’s most recent and first feature - So Faraway and Blue - was commercially released in Canada in 2003 to critical praise. He was the sole producer on Faraway where he financed the development and a significant portion of the production phase. Roy recently received development funding to write his second feature - Falling to Earth which continues a fascination of solitary characters in motion through urban and rural landscapes searching for missing pieces of themselves. Additionally, he has returned to shooting black and white film stocks and continues to work in the fiction genre utilizing small casts and crews. In July of 2008 he wrapped production on One Morning in June, his very first High Defintion, digital cinema project (this, in spite of the fact that hell did not freeze over). He is also in development stages of a longer black and white fiction film - Heavy Water. He is currently shooting parts of a 35mm anthology film - A Dark Blue Sky which consists of 64 short films. |
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