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Peter O’Brian, whose films have won nineteen Genie Awards, has built a reputation as a fiercely independent producer who is willing to take risks with first-time feature directors. His company, Independent Pictures Inc., has produced two classic Canadian films that have earned the Best Picture Genie: Phillip Borsos’s splendid The Grey Fox (1982) and Sandy Wilson’s sweetly nostalgic My ...
Nov 8, 2013 · Peter O’Brian made trail-blazing Canadian movies. Films like The Grey Fox and My American Cousin have vanished from our view. Nov. 8, 2013. 3 min read. Director Phillip Borsos and actor Richard ...
Jan 11, 2023 · Peter O’Brian is a Canadian film producer and the founder of Independent Pictures Inc. His production credits include The Grey Fox, My American Cousin, and Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, all of which have screened in this series. “ A gentle, intelligent, very leisurely paced western with one terrific asset: Richard Farnsworth.”.
Nov 3, 1997 · Genie Award-winning producer Peter O’Brian has merged his company Independent Pictures with Toronto’s Noble House Communications. O’Brian becomes the president and ceo of Mission, the newly named film and tv production division of the publicly traded Noble House, which holds distribution rights to over 20 films and is engaged in film and tv distribution, licensing and merchandising.
May 4, 1998 · It was announced last October that Mission was to become the film production arm of Noble House headed up by O’Brian, who would fold in Independent in exchange for Noble House stock. O’Brian, whose films have collectively won 17 Genie Awards, remains the head of Independent and its subsidiary Mission and is currently developing a pair of features, one American and the other Canadian.
The Grey Fox, Producer Peter O’Brian Posted on by admin Francis Ford Coppola protégé Phillip Borsos directs The Grey Fox, an elegiac, low- key tale about real-life bandit Bill Miner that has become a classic of Canadian cinema.
Peter O'Brian (born 1947) is a Canadian film producer and broadcast executive. Films produced by O'Brian's company, Independent Pictures, have won nineteen Genie Awards. His production credits include Blood and Guts, The Grey Fox, Outrageous!, John and the Missus, Milk and Honey and My American Cousin.
