Daniel Cross

strongDastrongniel Cross is an Associate Professor and previous Chair of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Montreals Concordia University He also serves on the Universitys Board of Governors and holds a university research chair in interactive documentary filmmaking He is also a multidisciplined awardwinning documentary filmmaker with a long history of directing and producing theatrical documentaries and exploring new media approaches He made his mark directing feature length films concerning issues of homelessness emThe Street a film with the homeless SPIT Squeegee Punks In Trafficem and the online interactive documentary emHomeless Nationem winning the UN World Summit Award for einclusion Together with eight Inuit students he codirected emInuuvunga I am Inuk I am aliveem He codirected the films emAtanasoffem for History TV and emChairman Georgeem for the BBC and CTV networks Cross also coproduced the a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscaawardsarchivegenieawardsGenie Awarda films emUp the Yangtzeem and emLast Train Homeem which also won two Emmy Awards in 2014 He has won both the Trailblazer award at MIPDOC in Cannes and the Inaugural Mentor of the Year award from the Canadian Media Producers AssociationbrbrAn Executive Producer with some 25 titles to his credit including emRainforest China Heavyweight I Am The Blues Angry Inukem and emManicem which screened at the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto In 2017 he was the recipient of a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscadanielcrossgivendonhaigawardthe Don Haig Awarda which is presented by the Hot Docs Board of Directors to an outstanding Canadian independent producer with a featurelength film in competition at the Festival and is selected by a jury of independent producersbrbrbr