Screamers
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In the presence of co-producer Tom Berry
On a distant mining planet colonized by Earth and ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers. They are designed for one purpose only: to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms, including humans...
Christian Duguay
Christian Duguay is a Quebecois director and cinematographer from Montreal. Duguay graduated from the Film Production program of Concordia University, in 1979. That year, his film Piece interrompue pour piano sauvage, co-directed by Harold Trépanier, took the Best Cinematography award at the 11th Canadian Student Film Festival. He began his professional career as a cameraman and jack-of-all-trades, working in documentaries, commercials and music videos. He became known as an expert with the Steadicam and shot many movies of the week in the United States. He is best known for directing the action films Screamers (1995) starring Peter Weller and Roy Dupuis and The Art of War (2000) starring Wesley Snipes and Michael Biehn. In May 2003, he directed the Emmy nominated miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, which aired on the CBC. He directed a few miniseries before more recently making French and Franco-Canadian films, including the first sequel to Belle and Sebastian (2015).
Photo: Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
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