John Kastner (filmmaker)

John Kastner is a four-time Emmy Award winning Canadian documentary filmmaker whose recent work has focused on the Canadian criminal justice system. His films include the documentaries Out of Mind, Out of Sight (2014), a film about patients at the Brockville Mental Health Centre, named best Canadian feature documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival;NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (2013), exploring the personal impact of the mental disorder defence in Canada;Life with Murder (2010), The Lifer and the Lady and Parole Dance, and the 1986 made-for-television drama Turning to Stone, set in the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario.

Early in his career, Kastner occasionally took a break from making documentary films on serious topics with lighter fare, which included co-hosting a short-lived children's series for CTV in the early 1980s, Just Kidding, as well as doing comedy segments for the CBC-TV late-night talk show 90 Minutes Live.

A former child actor, Kastner's first screenwriting credit came in 1983, when he co-wrote The Terry Fox Story, starring Robert Duvall.

Kaster has won four Emmy Awards. He won International Emmys for his 1978 film Four Women, a look at breast cancer for the CBC-TV investigative news series The Fifth Estate; the 1980 documentary Fighting Back, about young people with leukemia; and most recently, the 2011 film Life With Murder. He also received a News & Documentary Emmy Award for The Lifer and the Lady.

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