Charles Wilkinson is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and film and
television director. He is best known for his "environmental
quadrilogy" of documentaries: Peace Out, Oil Sands Karaoke and Haida
Gwaii: On the Edge of the World and Vancouver: No Fixed Address. All
four films premiered at Hot Docs International Documentary Festival,
and have gone on to win awards at Hot Docs, the Vancouver
International Film Festival and Yorkton Film Festival. Before moving
into documentaries, Wilkinson worked for many years in dramatic
television series and on feature films. His directing credits include
such TV series as The Highlander, The Immortal, So Weird, Dead Man's
Gun, Road to Avonlea and The Beachcombers, the feature films My Kind
of Town, Max, Blood Clan and Breach of Trust, and the TV movie Heart
of the Storm. As a preteen, he was one of the original performers in
the Calgary Safety Roundup, paired with his brother Billy as kid
cowboy singers. "We sang both kinds - country and western."
television director. He is best known for his "environmental
quadrilogy" of documentaries: Peace Out, Oil Sands Karaoke and Haida
Gwaii: On the Edge of the World and Vancouver: No Fixed Address. All
four films premiered at Hot Docs International Documentary Festival,
and have gone on to win awards at Hot Docs, the Vancouver
International Film Festival and Yorkton Film Festival. Before moving
into documentaries, Wilkinson worked for many years in dramatic
television series and on feature films. His directing credits include
such TV series as The Highlander, The Immortal, So Weird, Dead Man's
Gun, Road to Avonlea and The Beachcombers, the feature films My Kind
of Town, Max, Blood Clan and Breach of Trust, and the TV movie Heart
of the Storm. As a preteen, he was one of the original performers in
the Calgary Safety Roundup, paired with his brother Billy as kid
cowboy singers. "We sang both kinds - country and western."
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