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The expulsion of some intellectuals and artists by the Polish government in 1968 brought Tadeusz Jaworski, a prize-winning film/TV producer/director, in his homeland, and his wife, Tamara, a world-renowned tapestry-gobelin artist, to Canada. Arriving in Canada, 1969, Tad, MFA graduate, 1951, State Academy of Film and Theatre Arts, Lodz, Poland, has taught at both Humber College and York University, Toronto, and has worked as a celebrated independent producer/director of docudramas and various documentaries over the last 30 years. He's written and directed six-hour CBC TV production, "The Jesus Trial," starring Christopher Plummer, Douglas Campbell, and Robin Gammell, was described by "the Pope" of French critics, Jean Jacques Gauthier, of La Figaro, as a work of "great research, of great interest and of great intelligence." His docudrama SELLING OUT, 1972, based on social and family changes in Prince Edward Island, was nominated for an Academy Award, 1973, and won a Golden Etrog (Genie) at the 1972 Canadian Film Festival.
Tad Jaworski's accomplishments both as a film and TVproducer/writer have led to more than 35 major and/or international awards he has won in Europe, the U.S., Australia, and Canada. Producer of over 200 feature TV dramas, docudramas, and cinema verité documentaries, Jaworski was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1978.
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Nominated for Documentary (Shorts)