Nick Hector C.C.E. Film and Television Editor
“Without a doubt the best documentary editor in the country” – Allan King
Curriculum Vitae
Nick Hector is a CCE, DGC and HotDocs and multi-Gemini award winning Canadian film editor and Genie nominated producer. He has cut more than 100 films since 1986, many of which have garnered awards at international festivals.
An inaugural member of Canadian Cinema Editors honours society, Nick’s work has been screened at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Sundance, Berlin, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Smithsonian, Sheffield, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, Prague, Leipzig, Singapore, Phoenix, Montreal, Sydney, Palm Springs, HotDocs and many more.
Nick collaborated with legendary filmmaker Allan King exclusively cutting all of King’s films in his return to the documentary. One of these films, Dying at Grace, was described by the Toronto International Film Festival as “one of the best films ever made in this country”. Grace and Memory (another collaboration with King) have been added to the prestigious Criterion Collection.
He won Geminis for his work on Yvan Patry’s HotDocs Best of Festival winner Chronique d’un genocide announce and Allan King’s TIFF Top Ten Canadian Film and Gemini Award winning Dying at Grace. Nick became the only editor to have won three documentary editing Geminis with his win for Sturla Gunnarsson’s Air India 182.
Nick collected the DGC’s Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary for Air India 182 as well as Barry Greenwald’s Experimental Eskimos. He won the HotDocs Best editing award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God.
Nick collected the DGC’s Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary for Air India 182 as well as Barry Greenwald’s Experimental Eskimos. He won the HotDocs Best editing award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God.
Some of Nick’s numerous credits include Tim Southam’s Genie nominated Drowning in Dreams, John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini Award winning Crimes of the Heart, Sun-Kyung Yi’s Vanishing Acts Min Sook Lee’s HotDocs Best Canadian Feature Hogtown and Allan King’s TIFF Top Ten Canadian Film Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company.
Most recently, Nick was nominated for a Genie as co-producer of David York’s Wiebo’s War. He also won the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing as well as the Director’s Guild of Canada’s Allan King Award for his work on Force of Nature.
Nick is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the Canadian Cinema Editors honours society. He is a citizen of both Canada and Britain.
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Wiebo’s War David York National Film Board / 52 Media Video Canada 2011
Official Selection: HotDocs, Silverdocs, Sheffield, Vancouver, Halifax, Cinefest, Calgary, Thessaloniki, Tel Aviv, Cork, RIDM, Guth Gafa
Nominated: Best Feature Documentary 2012 Genie Awards Nominated: Sheffield Green Award Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature - Honourable Mention RIDM - Honourable Mention
««««« Top Ten Film of 2011 Top Ten Festival Pick “Has everything a great doc needs... a superb story” - NOW Magazine
«««« “A painstakingly etched portrait” - Eye Weekly
«««« - Torontoist
«««« - Katherine Monk, Postmedia
“Does what a great doc should do: it brings humanity to a cold and misunderstood set of headlines... a must see” - Moviefone
“It’s rare that a film hits you like a bomb and leaves your pre-conceived notions lying in a smouldering pile of rubble.” - Vancouver Metro Scene Force of Nature
Sturla Gunnarsson National Film Board Film Canada 2010
Official Selection: Toronto, MoMA, Smithsonian, Vancouver, Calgary, Byron Bay, Washington
Winner 2011 DGC Awards: Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Winner Best Documentary Editing - Canadian Cinema Editors Winner Cadillac People’s Choice Documentary Award - TIFF Winner International Award of Excellence - Canadian Media Awards Winner Environmental Film Award - VIFF
“when the film ended I found myself crying tears of joy, of renewed hope in life.” - E. Nina Rothe, Huffington Post
««««« “Enlightening, beautifully crafted and heartfelt” - Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun
«««« “this documentary about his life could be the most persuasive argument yet that saving the environment is the most critical fight for human rights occurring today.” - Guy Dixon, The Globe and Mail
«««« “This should have been the film that opened this year's Toronto International Film Festival… Force of Nature is a masterful and important documentary of considerable magnitude, very much befitting its subject.” - John Semley, Torontoist
«««« “Gunnarsson's subject is smart, fascinating and articulate…Suzuki is compelling about everything, including the economic downturn and the meaning of a single breath.” - Glenn Sumi, Now Magazine
«««« “simply fascinating” - Steve Gow, Metro Scene
“A love letter to the promises of science and the wonders of nature, Force of Nature is also a damning condemnation of greed, racism and short-sighted development.” - Devon Scoble, inMovies
Experimental Eskimos Barry Greenwald White Pine Pictures Video Canada 2009
Official Selection: HotDocs, Yorkton, DOXA, Dreamspeakers, Leipzig, Ambulante (Mexico)
Winner 2010 DGC Awards: Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Winner NFB Kathleen Shannon Award - Yorkton Film Festival Winner Best Documentary - Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival
Air India 182 Sturla Gunnarsson 52 Media & Eurasia Pictures Video Canada 2008
Selected as opening film HotDocs 2008 Winner - 2009 Gemini Awards: Best Documentary Editing Winner - 2009 DGC Awards: Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Nominated 2009 Gemini Awards: Best Documentary
“so gripping and suspenseful in its retelling of a large-scale tragedy that it frequently seems like a tautly written drama instead of grim reality.” - Canadian Press
“an incisive and poignant film that is perhaps needed now more than ever… among the most important documentaries of the past few years” - CBC Radio One
“brilliantly crafted…a classic of its genre and an important page in Canadian history” - Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun
“may be the finest and most important film of (Gunnarsson’s) career. It pushes the frontiers of non-fiction with a veracity and power on a par with movies like United 93… It's good to be reminded of the power a cinematic documentary” - Brian D. Johnson, Macleans
“top ten HotDocs films guaranteed to knock your socks off” - National Post
The Rise and Fall of the Grumpy Burger Matt Gallagher Border City Pictures Video Canada 2007
Official Selection HotDocs 2008 Official Selection Cinematheque Ontario
«««« “Matt Gallagher’s very funny portrait of a filmmaker pal seems tailor-made for cult status.” - Eye Weekly
“ a sly romp. A doc like this one can bring a man to vivid life but that does not mean it has to be serious” - Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun
“remarkable… a cinematic Portrait of the Artist as no Longer Young Filmmaker” - Phillip Marchand, Toronto Star
“top ten HotDocs films guaranteed to knock your socks off” - National Post
EMPz 4 Life Allan King Allan King Associates Video Canada 2006
««««« “King works his omniscient magic again” - Eye Weekly «««« “powerful” - NOW Magazine «««« “expertly assembled” - National Post ««« (out of 4) “vital viewing” - Globe and Mail “remarkable...powerful...riveting” - Andy Barrie, CBC Radio One 15 TIFF Movies You Must See - Toronto Life Official Selection: Toronto (Masters), Leipzig
Memory for Max, Claire Ida and company Allan King Allan King Associates Video Canada 2005
Top Ten Canadian Film of 2005 - Cinematheque Ontario Finalist - Best Documentary - 2006 Geminis Finalist - Best Documentary Editing - 2006 Geminis Finalist - Best Documentary Sound - 2006 Geminis Finalist - Best Documentary Production Team - DGC
«««« “A service to humanity” - NOW «««« - Eye Magazine
“deeply touching… yet another stunning achievement by one of the country’s foremost filmmakers” - Toronto Life
30th TIFF Top Ten Films “Incredibly moving… as close as documentary can get to anything like the truth” - Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
“gut-wrenching… astonishingly powerful and never preachy. Unforgettable” - Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun
“one of Allan King’s finest films” - Marc Glassman, Classical 96.3 FM.
“Nick Hector shapes the story and then presents it to King for comment. An interesting working method and one well worth investigation given the results.” - DOX Magazine
Actuality: The Art and Life of Allan King John Haslett Cuff TVOntario Video Canada 2006
“the irony in making a film about a documentary film genius is that you are unlikely to be as skilled as your subject. Cuff comes close.” «««« - Eye Magazine
««« “this film is a pleasure” - NOW
“an elegantly structured and inspirational biography” - HOTDOCS
Dying at Grace Allan King Allan King Associates Video Canada 2003
Winner - Best Documentary Editing - 2004 Geminis Winner - Best Documentary – 2004 Geminis Best Documentary Production Team - Directors Guild of Canada Awards
Top Ten Canadian Film of 2003 - Cinematheque Ontario
Top Ten Canadian Film of All Time - Austrian Film Museum - Melbourne Film Festival
“one of the greatest films ever made in this country” - Stacey Donan, Programmer, Toronto International Film Festival
“a masterpiece … Nick Hector has done yet another brilliant edit” – POV Magazine
Tied for favourite film of 28th TIFF «««« (out of 4) “One of the most powerful Canadian documentaries in a long time“ - Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Tied for favourite film of 28th TIFF “A major work. A profoundly humane, wrenchingly beautiful testament.” - Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star - 28th TIFF Top Five Films “magnificent” ««««« - Eye Weekly
“Thought provoking and emotionally draining. Unforgettable” ««««« - Tandem News
Hogtown Min Sook Lee ESL Video Canada 2004
Winner Best Canadian Feature: 2004 Hot Docs International Festival
Crimes of the Heart John Haslett Cuff CBC Video Canada 2003
“searing, seething… powerful” - The Globe and Mail Official Selection - INPUT Barcelona
Inside Information: Stories from the War Zone Steven Silver CBC Video Canada 2002
Finalist - Best Documentary Editing – 2003 Geminis
El Chogui Felix Zurita Alba Film Video Canada / Switzerland 2002
Best Documentary: "Contra el Silencio todas las Voces" Mexico Best Independent Film: “La Festival Medias Nord-Sud” Switzerland Best Documentary: “Los Angeles Latino Film Festival” Best of the Festival: “San Francisco Latino Film Festival” Special Jury Prize: “LaCinemafe Film Festival” New York
Hand of Fate Scott Morgan Mountain Air Films 35mm USA 1999
"Handsomely crafted... Errol Morris level mounting. Editing is particularly clever and innovative" – Variety "Extraordinary" – San Francisco Examiner
Dragon’s Egg Allan King TVO Video Canada 1998
Finalist - Best Documentary Editing – 1999 Geminis Finalist - Best Documentary – 1999 Geminis
Drowning in Dreams Tim Southam NFB 35mm Canada 1997
Finalist Best Documentary – 1998 Genies "(the structure) recalls Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury" «««« - Eye "Rashomon like structure... fascinating and artful" - Montreal Hour "artily intercut & strangely powerful" - Montreal Gazette "stylistic rapture" «««« - Toronto Star "remarkable" «««« - Windsor Star "hallucinatory" ««« 1/2 - Globe and Mail
Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold Yvan Patry and Daniele Lacourse NFB 16mm Canada 1996
Winner Best Documentary Editing – 1998 Geminis Finalist Best Documentary Editing - 1998 Gemeaux Winner Best of the Festival - 1998 Hot Docs International Festival Winner Best Theatrical Film - 1998 Hot Docs International Festival Winner Best Documentary Film - 1998 Chalmers Arts Awards Ranked in top 10 feature films made internationally - 24 Images Best Quebecois Film of 1996 - Cinemateque Quebecois
"enormously powerful" ««««- Now "raw and powerful" «««« - Eye
Hand of God Yvan Patry NFB Video Canada 1995
Winner Best Editing - Hot Docs International Festival
Winds of Memory Felix Zurita Channel 4 UK Video UK 1992
Special Jury Prize, Best Human Rights Film, 1992 Festival of the Americas Coral 1992 Havana International Film Festival Best Documentary 1993 Festival Cine-Iberamerican, Huelva, Spain
"clever cutting... carries you away with imagery and emotion" - The Times "a deep portrait done with a master hand" - Eduardo Galeano
Night and Silence Yvan Patry TVO Video Canada 1990
Finalist - Best Documentary Editing – 1991 Gemeux Canadian Association of Journalists - Best Television Reportage Canadian Association of Journalists - Best Reportage in any Media
Forbidden Land Yvan Patry TVO 16mm Canada 1989
Jury Prize Nyon International Documentary Film Festival Blue Ribbon American Film & Video Festival