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GEORGE HUPKA: Director and Producer
Member, Directors Guild of
Canada
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Documentary
DOWNSTREAM PICTURES, Saskatoon.
2019
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
Co-Production with National Film Board of Canada
Producer, DOP
WINNER - 2019 HOT DOCS Best Canadian Feature Documentary
WINNER - 2019 DOXA Colin Low Award for Canadian Documentary
WINNER - 2019 WEENGUSHK Film Festival - Best Documentary, Best Director (Tasha Hubbard)
WINNER - 2019 GIMLI International Film Festival - Best of Fest Audience Choice Award
WINNER - 2019 CALGARY International Film Festival - Special Jury Prize for Social Justice
WINNER - 2019 DGC Discovery Award (Tasha Hubbard, Director)
WINNER - 2019 ImagineNATIVE Best Feature (Audience Choice Award), Sun Jury Award
WINNER - 2019 RIDM MONTREAL Magnus Isaacson Award, Students' Award, Women Inmates' Award
WINNER - 2019 VANCOUVER FILM CRITICS CIRCLE Best Canadian Documentary of 2019
WINNER - 2020 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS Ted Rogers Award - Best Feature Length Documentary
WINNER - 2020 GOLDEN SHEAF AWARDS- Best Documentary (Social/Political), Best Multicultural Film
WINNER - 2020 CALIFORNIA AMERICAN INDIAN & INDIGENOUS FILM FESTIVAL - Champion of Justice Award
WINNER - 2020 AMPIA ROSIE AWARDS Best Director & Best Screenwriter (Tasha Hubbard), Best Editor (Hans Olson)
CONTENDER - 2019 MARGARET MEAD FILM FESTIVAL Filmmaker Award
SEMI-FINALIST - GZDOCS - 2019 Guangzhou International Documentary Festival
NOMINATED - 2020 YORKTON FILM FESTIVAL - Best of Festival, Kathleen Shannon Award, Best Indigenous Film, Best Research
2021
The Nature of Things - Inside the Great Vaccine Race
Location Director & DOP, VIDO-Intervac segments.
NOMINEE - 2022 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS - Rob Stewart Award for Best Science or Nature Documentary
VERITE FILMS 2021
The 2021 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards - Location Director & DOP, Tantoo Cardinal segment & Pura Fe performance. (60 Min.)
NOMINEE - 2022 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS - Best Variety or Entertainment Special
2020
Animatas No.1, Animatas No.2
Short films in collaboration with artist and photographer Lesia Maruschak
Director, DOP, Editor.
EXHIBITION - 2020-21 National Museum of Holodomor Genocide, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020
Oh, Canada! Oh, Canada!
Short film directed by Lesia Maruschak
Producer, Editor.
2019
The Diggers - a memory of making
Short film with artist and photographer Lesia Maruschak
Director, DOP, Editor.
NOMINATED - 2019 SIFA Best Short Film
2013
On The Edge - The Road to the 2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup
Co-production with Fadoo Productions & Media Rendezvous
Producer, DOP (8 x 1 hour episodes)
NOMINATED - 2013 Cynopsis Sports Media Awards - Best Documentary Series
NOMINATED - 2013 Golden Sheaf Awards - Best Documentary Series & Best of Saskatchewan
1995 - 1996
LIFE LESSONS - Reinventing Themselves
Director, Editor.
Half-hour documentary for CanWest/Global, produced in
association with Heartland Motion Pictures.
CFQC TELEVISION (CTV Saskatchewan)
Director, Producer, Writer
1989 - 1991
| OBMIN, a 60-minute documentary. Spent 2 months in the Soviet Union, resulting in a news series, two half-hour documentaries, The Sleeping Giant and Testing The Limits, and the one-hour documentary OBMIN - a 1991 CanPro Gold winner. In the photograph, George is pictured at the train station in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now in the Slovak Republic), with four of the students participating in the exchange program, and some of the 17 cases of gear he brought along! |
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2013 - 2022 Telemiracle Telethon Supervising Director.
1993 - 1999 Telemiracle Telethon Director.
1995 - 2003
Golden Harvest North American Cup Director, Producer.
9-camera mobile coverage of this annual darts tournament, broacast by CTV, TSN, and Sportsnet
3 x 90-minute programs per year (semi-final and final matches).
CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Director / Producer (Contract)
2000 2000
Today - Paul Brandt Live Concert segment for national Y2K broadcast
- Director.
Winner - 2000 Gemini Award for "Best Live Special
Event Coverage"
1998 Saskatchewan Party Leadership Convention - Live coverage - Director. (2 hours)
1997 - 1998 CBC Saskatchewan NewsHour & NewsFinal - Director, Director Trainer. (50 eps.)
1995 CBC Saskatchewan Election Coverage - Director. (Saskatoon Unit)
1993 - 1994 CBC Saskatchewan NewsHour & NewsFinal - Director. (30 eps.)
1993 Showcase 93 (60-minute variety special hosted by Tom Jackson) - Director, Producer.
Title |
Broadcaster |
Length |
Format |
Position |
Production Company |
Year |
| Frankie & Walter - One More Time..... Winner - Showcase "Best Arts & Entertainment" Nominated for 2 Gemini awards. |
CBC / A&E |
1 x 60 |
Variety |
Director - concert segments |
Camera West Film Associates |
1995-96 |
| The Saskatchewan Summit | SCN |
3 x 6 hr |
Live Event |
Director (5-camera mobile) |
Downstream Pictures |
2005 |
| Dining With Bruce | Pilot |
1 x 30 |
Lifestyle |
Director (3-camera studio) |
Independent Moving Pictures |
2001 |
| In:Culture | SCN |
13 x 30 |
Lifestyle |
Director - studio segments |
Angel Entertainment |
2003 |
| Sweetness In Life | APTN |
13 x 30 |
Lifestyle |
Director - studio segments |
Blue Hill Productions |
2002 |
| Running As One | APTN |
1 x 60 |
Variety |
Director - concert segments |
Blue Hill Productions |
2000 |
| Building Saskatchewan's Future | SCN |
1 x 6 hrs. |
Live News |
Co-Producer, Director (5-camera mobile) |
Downstream Pictures |
1998 |
| Finding Common Ground on Canada's Future - a forum on national unity | SCN |
1 x 8 hrs. |
Live News |
Co-Producer, Director (6-camera mobile) |
Downstream Pictures |
1997 |
| STREETNiX - We Forgot the Instruments! | Global |
1 x 60 |
Variety |
Producer, Director, Editor (5-camera concert film.) |
Downstream Pictures |
1996 |
| Down on the Farm Winner - Showcase 1994 "Best Children's Program " |
Educational |
1 x 30 |
Children's |
Director, DOP |
Media Group |
1994 |
| Prime Time Live | ABC |
1 x 60 |
Newsmagazine |
Live Remote Director (Saskatoon) |
ABC News |
1990 |
| The 1994 Can-Pro Awards | CTV |
3 hrs. |
Live Event |
Writer, Director |
CTV Saskatchewan |
1994 |
Empire Entertainment / Global / All-American
DIVORCE COURT 92. Associate Director, 45 eps.
Director: Cheryl Simard.
VP VIDEO POSTCARD
Director / DOP / Editor
1992 - 1993
3 x 30-minute and 1 x 60-minute travel videos, shot in Cancun, Acapulco, Cozumel,
and Mayan ruins throughout the Yucatan.
CFQC TELEVISION (CTV Saskatchewan)
Director, Producer, Writer
1989 - 1991
| 1989 - 1991 CFQC TV NEWSCENTRE - Director (420 eps). 6 & 11:30 Newscasts. |
1990 - 1991 |
1990 - 1991 |
1989 - 1990 |
1990, 1991 |
MS 1990, 1991. |
SASKATOON TELECABLE
1982 - 1985
Extensive experience directing multi-camera studio and mobile productions, including live
hockey, football, and baseball coverage, political forums, and music programs.
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Title |
Position |
Campaign |
Format |
Agency |
Year |
| SUN - "Closed," "Emergency" | Director/DOP |
2 x :30 |
HD |
Java |
2007 |
| Sask Learning "Young Families" | Director/DOP |
1 x :30 |
HD |
Bamboo Shoots |
2007 |
| Sask Highways "Slow to 60" |
Director |
1 x :30 |
Video |
Juxtapose Productions |
2006 |
| "Invitation - The Quilt of Belonging" Campaign |
Director/Editor |
2x:30, 2x:15 |
Video |
Downstream Pictures |
2006 |
| "Wide Open Saskatchewan" - National Revision |
Director/DOP |
1 x :60 |
35mm |
Phoenix Group |
2003 |
| SaskEnergy - Conservation II Campaign |
Director |
3 x :30 |
35mm |
Phoenix Group |
2002 |
| SaskEnergy - Conservation I Campaign Winner, Gold Summit Award, 2003. Winner, ACE Award of Merit (TV Campaigns Under $50,000), 2002. Winner, Best Commercial (Low Budget Category), Showcase 2002. |
Director |
3 x :30 |
35mm |
Phoenix Group |
2001 |
| Realty Executives Boardwalk - "Construction, Pelicans" Nominated for Best Commercial (Low budget category) Showcase 2002. |
Director/DOP |
2 x :30 |
Video |
Media Group |
2001 |
| Smart Learning Nominated for Best Commercial :30 and under, Showcase 2000. |
Director/DOP |
2 x :15 |
Video |
NEXT Communications |
2000 |
| Jubilee Ford, Jaguar & Volvo - Relocation Campaign |
Director |
12 x :30 |
Video |
MGM Communications |
2001 |
| Mallard And Associates - Campaign |
Director |
8 x :30 |
Video |
Marketing Den |
2001 |
| Sask Wheat Pool - "Signs of Autumn" |
Director/DOP |
1 x :30 |
16mm |
Marketing Den |
2000 |
| C:/Prompt Computers - "Fire" "Family" |
Director/DOP |
2 x :15 |
35mm |
Media Group |
1999 |
| Telemiracle - "Painting" |
Director/DOP |
1 x :30 |
Video |
MGM Communications |
1997 |
| Jubilee Ford |
Director/DOP |
1 x :30 |
Video |
MGM Communications |
1997 |
| Jubilee Ford "Signs" campaign |
Director/DOP |
5 x :30 |
Video |
MGM Communications |
1996 |
| Telemiracle - "Helping People Every Day" |
Director/DOP |
2 x :30 |
Video |
MGM Communications |
1995 |
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Title |
Position |
Format |
Agency |
Year |
Rosler Construction -Brock Timelapse |
Director/DP |
:30 HD video |
Agri-Biz |
2021 |
| From A Tiny Seed | Director/DP |
10-minute HD video |
Kevin Hursh Consulting |
2015 |
Federated Co-operatives -Loss Prevention |
Director/DP |
10-minute HD video |
Bamboo Shoots |
2011 |
Sask Industry & Resources - Asian Business |
Director/DP |
5-minute HD video |
Phoenix Group |
2006 |
| Sask Industry & Resources - Heavy Oil | Director/DP |
5-minute HD video |
Phoenix Group |
2006 |
| Sask Tel - Homenet |
Director/DP |
Internet streaming video |
Brown Communications |
2005 |
| Sask Tel - Messenger |
Director/DP |
Internet streaming video |
Brown Communications |
2005 |
| Sask Tel - Max Entertainment Services |
Director/DP |
Internet streaming video |
Brown Communications |
2005 |
| Sask Tel E-Services |
Director/DP |
5-minute Internet streaming video |
Brown Communications |
2003 |
| Federated Co-operatives Marketing Conference |
Director |
3 x :30 marketing videos |
Media Group |
2003 |
| Sask Tel Interactive Services |
Director/DP |
2 5-minute Internet streaming videos |
Brown Communications |
2002 |
| Federated Co-operatives Service Training |
Director |
Training video |
Media Group |
2002 |
| Crestline Coach - Manitoba & Ontario |
Director |
2 x 30-minute training videos for ambulance technicians
and maintenance personnel. |
Media Group |
2001 |
| Agrium Potash - Contractor Safety |
Director/DP |
Training video |
Leslie Bell & Associates |
2001 |
| Federated Co-operatives - Retail Theatre |
Director |
5 x :60 corporate presentations |
Media Group |
2000 |
| Prairie Canola |
Director/DP |
Promotional video for Sask. Wheat Pool |
Marketing Den |
2000 |
| Sears Canada |
Director, Writer/Director |
6 corporate training videos |
Sears Canada, Toronto |
1992-93 |
| Crestline Coach - BC Ambulance |
Director |
30-minute training video |
Media Group |
1998 |
| Crestline Coach - BC Ambulance |
Director |
30-minute training video |
Media Group |
1997 |
| Federated Co-operatives - Mission:Gold |
Director/DP/Editor |
3-minute product launch promotional video |
Media Group |
1997 |
| Federated Co-operatives - Director Training |
Director |
10-minute corporate training video |
Media Group |
1996 |
| E-Zeewrap |
Director |
30-minute infomercial for the US market |
Media Group |
1994 |
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1999
Re-creating a car crash for In A Heartbeat |
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DOWNSTREAM PICTURES, Saskatoon.
2021
Bone Strength Development Study. Corporate for University of Saskatchewan - Director, DP, Editor.
2020
Nordic Walking Study. Corporate for University of Saskatchewan - Director, DP, Editor.
2018
Sova Design. Corporate - Director, DP, Editor.
2014
PCS Allan - Milling Operations. Corporate for PotashCorp
- Director, Writer.
2012
PCS Allan - Underground Operations. Corporate for PotashCorp- Director, Writer.
2006
Invitation - the Quilt of Belonging. Corporate for Saskatoon Folkfest
- Director, Editor.
2005
Vision, Mission, Values. . Corporate for
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool - Director, Editor.
| Success In Saskatchewan - The Ducks Unlimited Story
- Director, DP. Promotional Video |
Winner, Best Corporate/Promotional
Video, Showcase 2000 Nominated for Best Videography (George Hupka & Gary vonKuster) and Best Host/Presenter (Jim McCrory) |
1997
Streetnix..... ignition. Promotional
video for CD - Director, Editor.
1994
10-minute promotional video
for The Saskatoon Foundation. - Producer, Director, Writer.
PSA for The Saskatoon Foundation. - Producer, Director,
Editor.
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