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Award-winning filmmaker Tjardus Greidanus has over 25 years of experience in all facets of the filmmaking process. Dutch-born and with dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship, he has successfully straddled documentary and narrative filmmaking, with deep cross-disciplinary expertise.
- A Shot to Save the World
Writer/Director: Tjardus Greidanus At a time when polio, one...
- Burden of Genius
His breakthrough provoked enormous controversy -– critics...
- A Shot to Save the World
Award-winning filmmaker Tjardus Greidanus has over 25 years of experience in all facets of the filmmaking process. Dutch-born and with dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship, he has successfully straddled documentary and narrative filmmaking, with deep cross-disciplinary experience.
- Cinematographer, Director, Writer
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The Final Sacrifice (also known as Quest for the Lost City) is a 1990 independent Canadian adventure film produced and directed by Tjardus Greidanus, a freshman at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, and stars Christian Malcolm and Bruce J. Mitchell.
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- Laura Davis Productions inc.
Writer/Director: Tjardus Greidanus At a time when polio, one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century strikes 50,000 children a year, a young researcher named Jonas Salk delves into the mystery of “the crippler” while battling the scientific establisment to achieve one of modern medicine’s greatest breakthroughs.
His breakthrough provoked enormous controversy -– critics accused him of of arrogance, recklessness, even murder. This award-winning film is a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century, and the father of transplantation.
Burden of Genius is Laura’s latest film with director Tjardus Greidanus. It is their follow-up to the CINE Golden Eagle-winning A Shot to Save the World about the creation of the Salk polio vaccine.
