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Barry Greenwald

Barry Greenwald

Known for

Directing

Biography

Barry Greenwald is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus. While in his final year as a student at Conestoga College, he directed the 1975 film Metamorphosis, inspired by Czech documentary filmmaker Vaclav Taborsky, which won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Upon graduation, he worked with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as a film editor, before directing documentary films independently.

Greenwald's films include the 1990 one-hour documentary Between Two Worlds, about Inuit Joseph Idlout. Produced by the NFB and Investigative Productions Inc., the film is included in the 2011 Inuit film collection, Unikkausivut:...

Best known work

Taxi!

Taxi!

1982
High Risk Offender

High Risk Offender

1998
Teleplay

Teleplay

1976
Pitchmen

Pitchmen

1985
Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels

1980
The Experimental Eskimos

The Experimental Eskimos

2009
Who Gets In?

Who Gets In?

1989
Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

1975
The Negotiator

The Negotiator

1995
Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds

1990

Filmography

  1. 2009

    The Experimental Eskimos

    Director

  2. 1998

    High Risk Offender

    Director, Producer, Sound

  3. 1995

  4. 1990

  5. 1989

    Who Gets In?

    Director

  6. 1985

    Pitchmen

    Director, Editor

  7. 1982

    Taxi!

    Director, Writer

  8. 1980

  9. 1976

    TeleplayTV

    Director, Writer

  10. 1975

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