Roman Kroitor
- Production
- December 12, 1926 · Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
- September 16, 2012
Biography
Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – September 17, 2012) was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as a pioneer of Cinéma vérité, as the co-founder of IMAX, and as the creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic 3D animation system. He was also the original inspiration for The Force. His prodigious output garnered numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, three Cannes Film Festival awards, and two Oscar nominations. Roman Boghdan Kroitor was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, to Ukrainian immigrants Peter and Tatiana (Shewchuk), both of whom were teachers. Peter died when Roman was four; Tatiana moved the family to Winnipeg and continued teaching. Roman attended the University of Manitoba, graduating in 1951 with a Master of Arts in Philosophy.
Known for
Filmography
- Rebels with a Camera · Self
- CyberWorld · Co-producer
- The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max · Director
- Echoes of the Sun · Director
- Beavers · Associate Producer
- We Are Born of Stars · Writer, Co-producer
- Laughter in My Soul · Executive producer
- First Winter · Executive producer
- Hail Columbia! · Writer, Producer
- Challenger: An Industrial Romance · Executive producer
- Bravery in the Field · Executive producer, Producer
- Nose and Tina · Executive producer
- Canada Vignettes: Love on Wheels · Executive producer
- Twice Upon a Time · Producer
- The Red Dress · Executive producer
- Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka · Executive producer
- So Long To Run · Producer
- Henry Ford's America · Executive producer
- Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention · Executive producer
- Hold the Ketchup · Executive producer, Producer
- Strangers at the Door · Producer
- Bekevar Jubilee · Executive producer
- Circus World · Producer, Director
- Man Belongs to the Earth · Producer
- North of Superior · Producer
- Tiger Child · Music
- In the Labyrinth · Director
- The Baymen · Producer
- Little White Crimes · Producer
- Stravinsky · Director, Producer
- Nobody Waved Goodbye · Producer
- The Hutterites · Producer
- Above the Horizon · Director, Producer
- Toronto Jazz · Producer
- 21-87 · (Archive audio)
- Lonely Boy · Director, Producer
- The Living Machine · Director
- Festival in Puerto Rico · Director, Producer
- The Days of Whisky Gap · Producer
- I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling · Producer
- Universe · Director, Writer
- The Cars in Your Life · Producer
- The Back-breaking Leaf · Producer
- The End of the Line · Producer
- Emergency Ward · Producer
- Glenn Gould: Off the Record · Director, Producer
- Glenn Gould: On the Record · Producer, Director
- The Days Before Christmas · Editing, Producer
- Police · Producer
- Memory of Summer · Producer
- Pilgrimage · Producer
- Country Threshing · Producer
- A Foreign Language · Producer
- Blood and Fire · Producer
- City of Gold · Writer
- It's a Crime · Story
- Rescue Party · Director
- Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman · Director, Script
- Age of the Beaver · Writer, Editing
- Starbreaker · Executive producer
- Why Men Rape · Executive producer