About Tom Radford
Born 1946. Tom Radford is a Canadian film producer, film director, director and producer.
Tom Radford (born March 12, 1946) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta. A cofounder with Anne Wheeler and P. J. Reese of the Filmwest Associates studio, Radford is most noted for films on the history, culture and politics of Western Canada. in 1975, he won both Best of Festival and Best Director at Yorkton for The Man Who Chooses the Bush.
In 1980 Radford left Filmwest to launch the Northwest Studio of the National Film Board of Canada, serving as executive producer of the division until 1985. Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta (2008) he also previously won Gemini Awards in 1988 for Foster Child and in 2004 for Arctic Dreamers, and received nominations for Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands and The Perfect Runner.
He was inducted as a member of the Order of Canada in 2020.
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Canadian filmmaker
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Tom Radford was born in 1946 in Edmonton.
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Tom Radford is a film producer, film director, director and producer.
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