Biography of Film Maker - Barry Stevens

Barry Stevens is a Toronto writer and filmmaker. For many years he was an actor and then a screenwriter, writing TV series and movies such as the award-winning The Diary of Evelyn Lau, (Sandra Oh's debut starring role.) After his work on Gerrie and Louise, the Emmy-winning documentary about the South African Truth Commission, Barry decided to focus on docs. He wrote and/or directed a number of history and other films. A one-off called Offspring about his search for the man from whose sperm he was made was seen in 61 countries and was nominated for an Emmy and a Grierson, and won the Donald Brittain Award as well as being voted the most popular film at IDFA, the world's largest doc festival. He wrote the film adaptation of Douglas Coupland's Souvenir of Canada, co-wrote The Last Just Man, about Dallaire in Rwanda, and directed a film about strategic bombing called The Bomber's Dream. He has won several Geminis and Writer's Guild Awards. He hopes in the future to make intimate films about nuclear weapons, world government, monkeys and Stalin.