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Nicholas Kinsey is a Canadian of English origin, born in Ontario and raised in England (dual nationality). With a scientific background and a capacity to write that he inherited from his mother, a short story writer, he began working in the film industry as a cameraman. His feature credits include Short Change (1989) and Women Without Wings (2002) starring Katya Gardner and Micheline Lanctôt which premiered at the Montreal Film Festival and the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival in 2002. The film was selected for the Victoria, Edmonton, Tiburon, Newport Beach, Atlantic, Bergamo Film Meeting, and New Delhi film festivals and went on to win a Silver Remi at the Houston Worldfest 2003.

Kinsey was producer, director of photography and editor on Doug Sutherland’s recent feature, Lakefront (2004) starring Dennis Cutts and Julie Reitzel which opened on Empire theatre screens in Atlantic Canada in April 2005. He also produced, photographed and edited the feature comedy, The Backup Man, starring Isabelle Cyr, Dennis Cutts, Patrice Sanzari and Constantine Kourtidis which was released theatrically in Canada in 2007. He has directed and photographed some 500 films and videos over his career including his recent award-winning documentary Martin Frobisher and the Baffin Fraud (2004) that won a Gold Remi at the Houston Worldfest 2005.

Over his career Kinsey has written ten feature screenplays and worked as script-editor on two recent feature productions. Kinsey is a highly versatile and technically proficient filmmaker who has hosted European co-production seminars (The Minority Co-Producer & Deal Breaker Conference at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International film festival in November 2004) and has written technical articles on film editing (The Cut Film Interface for 35mm Movie Production) and on film production in foreign locations. His knowledge of the industry is wide-ranging, having been a director of photography, a scriptwriter, a film editor and a feature film director. Although Kinsey is committed to drama, he still loves the documentary form and its challenges.