Jerry Ciccoritti

Jerry Ciccoritti was born on Aug 05, 1956 in Canada. Jerry Ciccoritti's big-screen debut came with Psycho Girls directed by Jerry Ciccoritti in 1986. Jerry Ciccoritti is known for Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy directed by Jerry Ciccoritti, Meg Tilly stars as Lorna Corbett and Jodi Balfour as Gladys Witham. Jerry Ciccoritti has got 20 awards and 12 nominations so far. The most recent award Jerry Ciccoritti achieved is Directors Guild of Canada. The upcoming new movie Jerry Ciccoritti plays is Angel Falls Christmas which will be released on Nov 26, 2021.

One of Canada's most provocative and in-demand directors, Jerry Ciccoritti has directed feature films, television movies and mini-series, and garnered accolades in all mediums over the course of his career. His features have consistently been invited to film festivals throughout the world and, in television, he has been awarded a Gemini for Best Film, seven Geminis for Best Director, three Directors Guild of Canada Awards and a Genie nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.A second-generation Italian-Canadian, Jerry has always made telling Canadian stories--particularly ones that reflect issues of the immigrant experience in Canada--a career priority. He has directed biographies of some of our most influential and inspiring citizens, including the critically acclaimed Trudeau (2002) mini-series. With "Trudeau", Ciccoritti made exciting and dynamic television about a Canadian for Canadians, and changed the face of home-grown television in the process. In the recent past he directed the adaptation of the beloved novel Lives of the Saints (2004), recounting the personal story of an Italian family that immigrated to Canada; the harrowing true story of a woman's fight for justice in The Many Trials of One Jane Doe (2002); a true account of the murder of Nancy Eaton, The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton (2004); and the emotional bio-pic of singer Shania Twain, Shania: A Life in Eight Albums (2005).Jerry first began working in film in his 20s, writing and directing low-budget indie horror films such as Psycho Girls (1986), Central Park Driver (1986) and The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II (1988), establishing himself as a genre cult figure. Jerry turned his hand to television in the early 1990s, where he quickly earned critical acclaim and awards working on projects including Le voyageur (1983), Nikita (1997), Catwalk (1992), Un tandem de choc (1994) and the groundbreaking mini-series Straight Up (1996) I and II. It was his work on television movies, however, that brought him the greatest degree of recognition. He was awarded Gemini Awards for Best Direction for Net Worth (1995), Chasing Cain (2001).While honing his distinctive style in television, Ciccoritti continued making feature films such as the controversial Paris, France (1993), a box-office hit and included in the collection "The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time". His 1999 feature The Life Before This (1999) was selected for the Toronto and Berlin film festivals and earned Catherine O'Hara a Genie Award as Best Supporting Actress. Boy Meets Girl (1998), which also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, was named Best Film at the Cologne Film Festival.In 2004 Jerry brought a very personal film, Blood (2004), adapted from the stage play of the same name, to the Toronto International Film Festival. A highly experimental work that challenges notions of singular perception and truth, "Blood" became a festival favorite, won him a Genie nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and, most recently, a Directors Guild of Canada award nomination for Best Achievement in Direction for a feature film.Alongside his nomination for "Blood", Jerry has also been nominated by the Directors Guild for Best Achievement in Direction in the TV movie/mini-series category, for "Lives of the Saints". It is the first time he has been nominated for television and feature film simultaneously - a very fitting acknowledgment for a man who has worked so fluidly in both mediums.