John Greyson

John GREYSON (1960, Nelson, Canada) supports the gay movement soberly and humorously, but also tackles issues such as racism, disarmament and agricultural reforms in Africa. His first feature Urinal won the Teddy for the Best Gay film in Berlin. Besides filmmaking, he currently teaches film and video theory and film production at York University.

Filmography

The First Draft (1980, short), Breathing Through Opposing Nostrils (1982, short), Disrupting Diplomacy (1983, short), Manzana for Manzana (1983, short), The Perils of Pedagogy (1984, short), The Jungle Boy (1984, short), Kipling Meets the Cowboy (1985, short), Moscow Doesn't Believe in Queers (1986, short), A Moffie Called Simon (1986, short), You Taste America (1986, short), The AIDS Epidemic (1987, short), Angry Initiatives, Defiant Strategies (1988, short), Urinal (1988), The World is Sick [sic] (1989, short), The Pink Pimpernel (1989, short), No Way, Charlie Brown (1990, short), The Making of Monsters (1991, short), Zero Patience (1993), Lilies (1997), The Law of Enclosures (2000), Packin' (2001, short), Proteus (2003), Rex vs. Singh (2008, short), Fig Trees (2009), Covered (2009, short), The Ballad of Roy and Silo (2011)