Moose Jaw: There’s a Future in Our Past
1992 · 7.0/10
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Rick Hancox
Director & actor · born 1 January 1946 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hancox, Richard, "Rick," filmmaker, film teacher, musician (born in Toronto, January 1, 1946). Hancox grew up in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island. All three locations have informed his poetic and finely crafted experimental documentaries, which fuse personal landscapes with issues of time, memory and history.
Hancox was introduced to film at the University of Prince Edward Island by American documentary filmmaker George Semsel. He went on to do graduate work in film and photography at New York University and at Ohio University, where he earned an MFA in film in 1973. During that period his short films won five major awards in the Canadian Student Film Festival.
Where to start: Moose Jaw: There’s a Future in Our Past (1992).
