Mike Downie is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. The older brother of
late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, he is best known for his
work with the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund.The founder of the
film production company Edgarland Films, Downie won a Gemini Award for
Best Sports Program or Series in 2005 as coproducer with Nicholas de
Pencier of The Hockey Nomad. He has won three Canadian Screen Awards,
for Best Science or Nature Documentary in 2014 as director of
"Invasion of the Brain Snatchers", which aired as an episode of The
Nature of Things; Best Social or Political Documentary Program in 2018
as a producer of The Secret Path; and Best Direction in a Documentary
Program in 2020 for the documentary Finding the Secret Path.He was
also a Gemini Award nominee in 2000 for Blue Rodeo: The Scenes in
Between and in 2010 for One Ocean: Birth of an Ocean, and a CSA
nominee in 2018 for Running on Empty: Surviving California's Epic
Drought.
late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, he is best known for his
work with the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund.The founder of the
film production company Edgarland Films, Downie won a Gemini Award for
Best Sports Program or Series in 2005 as coproducer with Nicholas de
Pencier of The Hockey Nomad. He has won three Canadian Screen Awards,
for Best Science or Nature Documentary in 2014 as director of
"Invasion of the Brain Snatchers", which aired as an episode of The
Nature of Things; Best Social or Political Documentary Program in 2018
as a producer of The Secret Path; and Best Direction in a Documentary
Program in 2020 for the documentary Finding the Secret Path.He was
also a Gemini Award nominee in 2000 for Blue Rodeo: The Scenes in
Between and in 2010 for One Ocean: Birth of an Ocean, and a CSA
nominee in 2018 for Running on Empty: Surviving California's Epic
Drought.
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