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Artistic Visionary
Name: Vic Sarin
Year: 2017
Presented By: Perminder Chohan of Desjardins
Bio:
In Honour of Your Extraordinary Achievement and Contribution to World Cinema
Vic Sarin’s career includes award-winning feature films, documentaries and television movies. Sarin began his career in Australia making documentaries that he produced, wrote, directed and shot, while working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a cameraman.
He then emigrated to Canada and went on to become one of Canada's most celebrated Directors of Photography, receiving numerous accolades including Genie, Gemini and Emmy nominations and awards among others.
Sarin is the recipient of the prestigious Kodak Lifetime Achievement Award for having created some of Canadian cinema’s most moving and memorable images.
He wrote his first feature film screenplay Partition, a story of love set against the turmoil at the end of the British reign of India in 1947, based on events he had heard about and witnessed growing up in Kashmir. Sarin has recently completed Desert Riders, a feature documentary exploring the world of children camel jockeys in the Middle East; the globally-shot feature documentary Hue: A Matter of Colour, an exploration of colourism in various cultures through Sarin’s perspective; and The Boy From Geita, following the journey of a young Tanzanian boy with albinism.
He is currently filming Keepers of the Magic, a documentary delving into the hearts and minds of the world’s master cinematographers, and is also co-writing and will direct the epic feature film Jack of Diamonds, celebrating the journey of maverick Canadian geologist Jack Williamson.
