Stephen Low
Stephen Low is a Canadian film director and screenwriter who works extensively in the IMAX and IMAX 3D film formats. Based in Montreal, Quebec, over his 30-plus year career Low has directed numerous award-winning film documentaries including Challenger: An Industrial Romance , Beavers , Titanica ,... Super Speedway , Volcanoes of the Deep Sea , Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag , Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D , Legends of Flight 3D , Rescue 3D and Rocky Mountain Express . Son of National Film Board animator and documentary filmmaker Colin Low, Stephen Low was born in Ottawa and raised in Montreal. In his youth he showed no interest in the family business although his varied interests—painting, photography, auto racing, aviation, scuba diving, trains, travel, history—would all eventually show up in his future films. “As a child,” he recalls, “filmmaking seemed like extremely boring stuff. Everything just took forever.” He moved to Thunder Bay, Ontario, where he studied Political Science at Lakehead University and also worked as a brakeman for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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