Allan Winton King, OC (February 6, 1930 – June 15, 2009) was a Canadian film director.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia during the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver. He says he became a documentary filmmaker because, "I used to have a fantasy everyone would see my films and be changed for the better. That's why you want to make films."
In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. A coll...
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Allan Winton King, OC (February 6, 1930 – June 15, 2009) was a Canadian film director.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia during the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver. He says he became a documentary filmmaker because, "I used to have a fantasy everyone would see my films and be changed for the better. That's why you want to make films."
In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. A collection of ten of King's films was released as a collection representing various stages of life. His work was also the focus of a retrospective at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2007 New York City's Museum of Modern Art hosted a retrospective of his work.
King was a leader of the documentary technique known as cinema-verite. He ran Allan King Films Limited in Toronto. King describes his style as "actuality drama - filming the drama of everyday life as it happens, spontaneously without direction, interviews or narrative". He...
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