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Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent the bulk of his career with the National Film Board of Canada. [1] Career. Cowan was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature for Going the Distance, a documentary about the 1978 Commonwealth Games.
In his 40-year career as a filmmaker, Paul Cowan has never been one to shy away from controversy. He’s chronicled the rise and fall of renegade billionaire Robert Campeau (Double or Nothing), followed Dr. Henry Morgentaler on his controversial abortion crusade (Democracy on Trial), dramatized wrongly-convicted murderer Donald Marshall ...
Oct 12, 2010 · Paul Cowan is a Canadian filmmaker who spent many years working at the NFB. He retired from the Film Board in 2009, after directing Paris 1919 , a film adaptation of Margaret MacMillan’s Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War.
A British producer whose best known credits included The Krays (1990) and The Crying Game (1992), Cowan began his career as a lab technician at Technicolor. He was also infamously the third assistant director tasked with causing Barbara Windsor’s bra to fly off in Carry On Camping (1969).
Nov 1, 2016 · Paul Cowan , who has died aged 77, was one of the great unsung contributors to the revival of the British film industry in the 1980s and 1990s.
Oct 20, 2021 · Paul Cowan was a rising star behind the camera when he was drafted in to help on the 1969 film, one of the most popular in the Carry On series.
In this documentary, Paul Cowan delivers unprecedented access to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping, and the determined and often desperate manoeuvres to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC).
