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Bruce Pittman Resume

The Bruce Pittman resume shows vast experience he can offer for your DVD family portrait.

His feature film and television work reflects the diversity of his directorial talents — comedy, drama, action, adventure, sci-fi and thriller genres.

His early career was exclusively devoted to documentaries.

He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Directors Guild of Great Britain and the Directors Guild of Canada.

For a more complete listing of Bruce Pittman's work go to his Complete Filmography, Awards his films have won, Quotes from Reviews. and his Production Gallery.

In 1985 Bruce Pittman's short film The Painted Door was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.

His latest film, the mini-series Shattered City, the epic story of the 1917 Halifax explosion, won 2 Directors Guild of Canada Awards and
5 Gemini Awards.
The film stars Oscar nominees Graham Greene and Pete Postlethwaite.
A TV Times reader’s poll named it as the most popular movie or
mini- series of the year.

The Secret Path, starring Della Reese, Ossie Davis and Crystal Bernard won it's Sunday evening ratings and placed second in overall ratings for the week when it went to air on CBS.

To Dance with Olivia, an intense family drama, starring Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr., Joe Don Baker, and Lonette McKee was shot on location in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Flood: A River’s Rampage, a story of a Mississippi flood stars Richard Thomas and was filmed in September of 1997. It was the winner of a Young Artists Award.

Also in 1997, ABC aired To Brave Alaska, an action adventure starring Alyssa Milano.
 

CBS aired the 1840's period adventure Captive Heart that same year.
It was named Best TV Movie, winning both the Grand Award and Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals International Television Programming Awards, as well as, the E Pluribus Unum Award for Best TV Movie. 

Pittman directed the mini-series Steve Martini's Undue Influence, a suspense drama for CBS, starring Brian Dennehy, Patricia Richardson and Jean Smart.

The critically acclaimed Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, a futuristic black comedy for Showtime, was named one of the 10 Best TV Movies at the prestigious Cologne Conference in Germany. 

Where the Spirit Lives, Pittman's heart-rending drama about Indian residential schools, received numerous international awards including a Gemini for Best TV Movie. 

Bruce Pittman's films have won 4 Best Drama Awards in Canada and he has received 4 nominations for Best Director at the Gemini Awards.

Locked in Silence received 4 Daytime Emmy nominations including Outstanding Children’s Special and two acting nominations for Bonnie Bedelia and Marc Donato.

Apart from his feature length productions, Bruce Pittman has directed 87 episodes on 27 series for 12 different networks.

Bruce Pittman directed television shows have garnered 13 Best Series nominations at the Gemini Awards and 2 nominations for Best Series at the ACE Cable Awards.

These nominated series reflect the diversity of Pittman’s talents.

From the science fiction of Earth: Final Conflict, Beyond Reality and Tekwar; the comedy of Maniac Mansion and Due South; the drama of Street Legal and E.N.G.; to the family values of Road to Avonlea and Doc as well as the action of Destiny Ridge, Bruce Pittman has always delivered the needs of the producer.

Twice series which he has directed have been named by Time Magazine as one of the 10 Best of the Year - Maniac Mansion of which he directed 11 episodes and Ray Bradbury Theatre in which he directed Drew Barrymore in The Screaming Woman.

Bruce Pittman has received nominations for Best Director at both the Gemini and ACE Cable Awards for his direction in episodic television.

In addition, his specific episodes have received 5 Gemini acting nominations with two wins.

His work on series television has also won 12 international film festival awards including the Ustinov Humanitarian Award at the Banff Festival for Neon Rider of which Bruce Pittman directed 17 episodes.

Bruce Pittman's earliest work was in the documentary field.
His film on the Hollywood director John Frankenheimer was nominated for a Canadian Film Award.

In 1974 Bruce with Elwy Yost co-created the program Saturday Night At The Movies which is in it's 38th year on the TVO Network.
During its production, Elwy and Bruce interviewed many of the greats from Hollywood's golden era - from the directors Frank Capra (It Happened One Night) to King Vidor (The Big Parade) and hundreds of actors, directors and technicians in-between.
It was a great schooling in filmmaking and the lessons were well learned.

As a result of this education Bruce Pittman became a storyteller.
Be it documentary, drama, comedy, action, adventure, or suspense, the stories are always told cinematically with a keen awareness of the impact on the audience and an eye on efficient production.

He has proven to be a creative collaborator who can bring a wealth of experience and energy to your DVD family portrait.