Guy Maddin made his first short film THE DEAD FATHER in 1985. His feature films include ARCHANGEL (1990), CAREFUL (1992), and TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997), all of which screened in Perspective Canada, and TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL. His short ODILON REDON (1995) won a Special Jury Citation at the Toronto International Film Festival. Maddin was also the subject of a Noam Gonick documentary, GUY MADDIN: WAITING FOR TWILIGHT which screened in Perspective Canada in 1997. In 1998, Maddin presented 1959's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH at SPROCKETS Toronto International Film Festival for Children, a film that inspired him as a child. Maddin also presented Tod Browning's THE DEVIL DOLL in Dialogues: Talking With Pictures in 1997. Most recently, Maddin wrote, directed, and edited three short films TYGERS, HOSPITAL, and THE COCK CREW. Maddin was born in 1957 in Winnipeg. 

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Writer and Director - Guy Maddin
Executive Producer - Niv Fichman
Producer - Jody Shapiro
Co-Producer - Jennifer Weiss
Cinematographer - Guy Maddin
Co-Camera - deco dawson
Co-Editors - Guy Maddin and deco dawson
Production Designer - Rejean Labrie
Sound - David McCallum, Lou Solakofski
Principal Cast - Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar, Hryhory Yulyanovitch Klymkyiev