Zale Dalen

Zale Dalen is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for the 1980 film The Hounds of Notre Dame, for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981, and the cult films Skip Tracer (1977) and Terminal City Ricochet (1990).

His television credits have included episodes of For the Record, The Edison Twins, Danger Bay, Airwolf, Wiseguy, The Beachcombers, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 21 Jump Street, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and Call of the Wild. In addition he directed two made for TV movies: "Anything to Survive" (1990) for ABC and "On Thin Ice, the Tai Babalonia Story" (1990) for NBC.

His non-television work includes educational and sponsored films, plus the Saskatchewan Pavilion film for Expo '86.

Toward the end of the last century he explored digital film production, founding the Volksmovie Movement for cooperative digital production, and making the feature length romantic comedy, "Passion". Failing to get any returns from that effort, he nonetheless proceeded to attempt a feature-length film about tree planters, "Getting Screefed", which lead to his bankruptcy and nine-year exile from Canada.

Zale Dalen fled to China in 2004 where he taught a variety of subjects at Chinese universities. He returned to Canada in 2014 and now resides in Nanaimo, B.C. where he considers himself semi-retired.

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