Damian Pettigrew

Damian Pettigrew
Born	Damian (Damien) Pettigrew Québec, Canada
Occupation	filmmaker, screenwriter, author
Years active	1982–present
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Awards	UNESCO Grand Prize - Best Documentary 1997 Balthus Through the Looking Glass Lausanne IFAF Prize - Best Photography 1997 Balthus Through the Looking Glass Prix Arte Nomination - Best Documentary 2003 Fellini: I'm a Born Liar Marseille IFF Award - Coup de Coeur 2003 Fellini: I'm a Born Liar Banff World Television Festival Rockie Award - Best Arts Documentary 2003 Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Damian (also Damien) Pettigrew (born in Quebec) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author, and multimedia artist, best known for his cinematic portraits of Balthus, Federico Fellini and Jean Giraud.

Released theatrically in fifteen countries, his film Fellini: I'm a Born Liar won the Rockie Award for Best Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival and was nominated for the Prix Arte at the European Film Awards, Europe's equivalent of the Oscars.

Pettigrew's mother was a child psychologist who trained with Anna Freud at the Hampstead Child Therapy Course in 1947. His father, Dr. J.F. Pettigrew, was the first Canadian surgeon to diagnose the heart condition known as aortic coarctation in 1953.

After reading English, French and Italian Literature at the universities of Bishop's, Oxford, and Glasgow (where he discovered the work of Scottish film director Bill Douglas), Pettigrew studied cinema at IDHEC in Paris. At the Cinémathèque Française, he met Brion Gysin and Steve Lacy and began frequenting their artists' circle. If his work is influenced by Gysin's celebrated cut-up technique, the profound and lasting effect on his life was his friendship with Samuel Beckett.

...
Wikipedia