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Tony Ianzelo is a Director, Director of Photography and Cinematography Canadien born on 13 june 1935 at Toronto (Canada)
Tony Ianzelo, CM, RCA (born June 13, 1935) is a Canadian documentary director and cinematographer.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and attended Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnical School (now Ryerson University). His career at the National Film Board of Canada was characterized by an empathic portrayal of his subjects, and he gained a reputation for compassion and honesty through sensitive films and unobtrusive cinematography.
He joined the NFB in 1960 as a camera assistant and in 1966 made his first film, Antonio. This short piece, which uses his own father as a subject to explore the themes of family, immigration and alienation, was shown in schools and institutions for three decades after its release. A prolific and innovative artist, he retired in the late 1990s with over one hundred film credits.
Best known for his quiet empathy and unobtrusive camera-work, he worked with the NFB program Challenge for Change, where he used his skills on such films as Cree Hunters of Mistassini with Boyce Richardson, and other projects in Canada's Far North. One of the first cinematographers nominated to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, he received numerous awards and commendations, including two Academy Award nominations (both for Best Documentary Short, for Blackwood in 1976 and High Grass Circus in 1977), as well as the Order of Canada in 2003 for his lifetime contribution to world documentary cinema.
In 1986, with Colin Low, he co-directed Transitions, the first 3D IMAX film, which was shown at the Expo 86 in Vancouver.
He is currently retired and living in Montreal.
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Tony Ianzelo
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and attended Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnical School (now Ryerson University). His career at the National Film Board of Canada was characterized by an empathic portrayal of his subjects, and he gained a reputation for compassion and honesty through sensitive films and unobtrusive cinematography.
He joined the NFB in 1960 as a camera assistant and in 1966 made his first film, Antonio. This short piece, which uses his own father as a subject to explore the themes of family, immigration and alienation, was shown in schools and institutions for three decades after its release. A prolific and innovative artist, he retired in the late 1990s with over one hundred film credits.
Best known for his quiet empathy and unobtrusive camera-work, he worked with the NFB program Challenge for Change, where he used his skills on such films as Cree Hunters of Mistassini with Boyce Richardson, and other projects in Canada's Far North. One of the first cinematographers nominated to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, he received numerous awards and commendations, including two Academy Award nominations (both for Best Documentary Short, for Blackwood in 1976 and High Grass Circus in 1977), as well as the Order of Canada in 2003 for his lifetime contribution to world documentary cinema.
In 1986, with Colin Low, he co-directed Transitions, the first 3D IMAX film, which was shown at the Expo 86 in Vancouver.
He is currently retired and living in Montreal.
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Filmography of Tony Ianzelo (8 films)
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Momentum (1992)
, 20minutesDirected by Colin Low, Tony Ianzelo
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Rating60%
Transitions (1986)
, 20minutesDirected by Colin Low, Tony Ianzelo
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Documentary films about technology
Rating61%
Blackwood (1976)
, 28minutesDirected by Tony Ianzelo
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Gordon Pinsent
Rating61%
High Grass Circus (1976)
, 57minutesDirected by Tony Ianzelo
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Circus films, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Rating63%
Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)
, 57minutesDirected by Tony Ianzelo
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about nature
Rating70%
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Blackwood (1976)
, 28minutesDirected by Tony Ianzelo
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Gordon Pinsent
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)
, 57minutesDirected by Tony Ianzelo
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about nature
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
, 49minutesDirected by Peter Pearson
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Chris Wiggins, Kate Reid, Margot Kidder
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74%
You Are on Indian Land (1969)
, 36minutesOrigin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Cosmic Zoom (1968)
, 8minutesOrigin Canada
Genres Documentary, Animation
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
The film starts with an aerial image of a boy rowing a boat on the Ottawa River. The movement then freezes and the view slowly zooms out, revealing more of the landscape all the time. The continuous zoom-out takes the viewer on a journey from Earth, past the Moon, the planets of the Solar System, the Milky Way and out into the far reaches of the known universe. The process is then reversed, and the view zooms back through space to Earth, returning to the boy on the boat. It then zooms in to the back of the boy's hand, where a mosquito is resting. It zooms into the insect's proboscis and on into the microscopic world, concluding at the level of an atomic nucleus. It then zooms back out to the original view of the boy on the boat.
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Blackwood (1976)
, 28minutesDirected by Tony Ianzelo
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Gordon Pinsent
Roles Cinematography
Rating61%
, 49minutesDirected by Peter Pearson
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Chris Wiggins, Kate Reid, Margot Kidder
Roles Cinematography
Rating74%
You Are on Indian Land (1969)
, 36minutesOrigin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Roles Cinematography
Rating68%
Cosmic Zoom (1968)
, 8minutesOrigin Canada
Genres Documentary, Animation
Roles Cinematography
Rating70%
The film starts with an aerial image of a boy rowing a boat on the Ottawa River. The movement then freezes and the view slowly zooms out, revealing more of the landscape all the time. The continuous zoom-out takes the viewer on a journey from Earth, past the Moon, the planets of the Solar System, the Milky Way and out into the far reaches of the known universe. The process is then reversed, and the view zooms back through space to Earth, returning to the boy on the boat. It then zooms in to the back of the boy's hand, where a mosquito is resting. It zooms into the insect's proboscis and on into the microscopic world, concluding at the level of an atomic nucleus. It then zooms back out to the original view of the boy on the boat.