DUNCAN McDOWALL / TV & Film Writer / Director
duncan.mcdowall@gmail.com / +1.514.802.1057
Professional Experience
Ongoing
January 2015
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
May 2016
October 2013
March 2009
September 2008
November 2007
February 2007
April 2006
December 2005
August 2005
April 2005
January 2005
September 2004
November 2003
June 2003
February 2003
January 2002
Founder/Writer-Director/Producer – Before the Wire (indie film prodco)
Co-founder/Director – PAISAN Creative Services (branded film content)
TV Doc Scriptwriter – Idéacom International
Immersive Media Experience Writer/Director – GSM Project
Freelance TV Commercial Scriptwriter (occasionally Director) – Marketel, Publicis, BCP, JAVA, BAM, Sid Lee, NEWAD, NFB, People Like Us Communications… and more
TV Content Writer – Media Ranch (TV)
Senior Writer at OgilvyAction – a division of Ogilvy & Mather (Ad Agency)
Writer & Content Developer for 2-Plus International (Museum Exhibition)
Writer – CBC Montreal’s English Television News
TV Broadcast Analyst – IHS Markit (London, UK)
Story Producer – CMJ Productions (TV)
Story Producer – Instinct Films (TV)
Project Manager/Marketing Director – Galafilm (TV)
Resource Producer – CMJ Productions (TV)
Scriptwriter – MAJ Productions (TV)
Development Producer – Eclipse Productions (TV)
Researcher – Film Legend Corp. and the Stephen Low Company (IMAX)
Assistant Director/Production Coordinator – Amerimage-Spectra (TV)
Researcher – CMJ Productions (TV)
Assistant Director Marketing and Communications – Bluesponge (Web)
Communications Analyst – Primesco Communications (IMAX)
Distinctions (excluding film festival selections and awards)
Awarded SODEC, CALQ, Canada Council, BravoFACT, BravoFACTUAL and SACD writing and production grants.
May 2012 & 2015 – Selected for Telefilm “Not Short on Talent” at Cannes Film Festival
September 2010 – Winner of the Grand Prix of the 12th edition of “Cours écrire ton court”
April 2008 – Astral Media Hotdocs Emerging Filmmaker Award
Independent Filmography
PAINTED
The Horse Latitudes
Brief Candle
Mountain in Thailand
Step Well Pilgrim
I,22
Faces of God
Whalebone
One Big Breath
Pianoman / Bike to Light / Osheen
2011 – 5mins
2012 – 15mins
2013 – 6mins
2013 – 9mins
2014 – 6mins
2014 – 20mins
2014 – Feature-length script
2015 – Feature-length script
2015 – 9mins
2016 – trilogy of doc portraits for the CBC
Films by Montreal based
Writer Director
Duncan McDowall
