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Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films which has solidified his popularity and... acclaim in alternative film circles. While Maddin strives to recreate the styles and moods of early film melodramas, Weimar Republic German silent films, and 1920s Soviet agit-prop, his own personal style lies in his use of clichés, psychosexual situations, bizarre stories and humour. Reminiscent of the early work of American director David Lynch, it is this self-conscious and surreal merging of early film-making techniques with a post-modern sensibility that give Maddin's films a style referred to as "Ultra-Conformist" or "Anti-Progressive". Assistance from provincial and national Arts Councils as well as the Winnipeg Film Group aid in Maddin's pursuit in the making of his films. Maddin himself attributes his embarkation into the film world with his viewing of Luis Buñuel's L’âge d’Or, as told to journalist Robert K.
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Jon Jones is a British television director and screenwriter whose works include the ITV drama series Cold Feet, the Channel 4 drama A Very Social Secretary and the 2007 ITV adaptation of Northanger Abbey. His work on Cold Feet led to a nomination for New Director at the BAFTA Television Craft... Awards. In 2005 he adapted The Alan Clark Diaries for BBC Four. Further work for BBC Four includes a biographical television film about Mrs Beeton, The Diary of Anne Frank and the ITV/AMC remake of The Prisoner.
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