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Subsequent feature films include the comedic drama, Rare Birds, starring William Hurt, Molly Parker and Andy Jones, described by Roger Ebert as “a sweetheart of a film, whimsical and touching” and Beowulf & Grendel, a revisionist adaptation of the Old English epic poem, starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgaard, Sara Polly and Eddie Marsan, which was reviewed by the Toronto Star as “a successfully strange and strangely moving adventure”, and by the Village Voice as ““good, bloody fun that stirs the intellect whenever it feels like it.” It combines politics, religion, illness and scheming in the story of one family in upheaval, and is very serious and always amusing.” Such A Long Journey was one of the top grossing Canadian films of 1999 and nominated for 12 Canadian Academy Awards. The Times Of India declared, “it’s not exotic, it’s Indian”, British Film Review described it as “a modern masterpiece”, while Roger Ebert wrote “Such a Long Journey, filmed on location in Bombay, is a film so rich in atmosphere it makes Western films look pale and under populated. Starring two generations of Indian acting royalty, including Roshan Seth, Om Puri, Naseeridan Shah, Irfan Khan and Soni Razdan, the film resonated in both India and the West.

Working with screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, Gunnarsson created a rich, deeply humanistic film set in Bombay on the eve of the 1971 India-Pakistan war, about a Parsi bank clerk who’s drawn into a world of intrigue out of loyalty to an old friend. In 1998, Gunnarsson was invited to adapt Rohinton Mistry’s Booker Award shortlisted novel of Such A Long Journey. Described by The New Republic’s Stanley Kauffmann as “ the gripping account of a journey through delusion to enlightenment ”, Gerrie & Louise won the 1998 International Emmy Award for best feature documentary Returning to documentary filmmaking Gunnarsson went to South Africa to film the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, The result, Gerrie & Louise, is a darkly fascinating film that explores unlikely marriage between a one-time apartheid hit-squad commander and the investigative reporter who exposed him.

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Gunnarsson moved into drama, directing seminal Canadian television series including The Beachcombers (1989), North of Sixty (1993 ), DaVinci’s Inquest (2003 ), Intelligence (2006) and Degrassi ( 2008-2011 ), as well as television movies including: The Diary Of Evelyn Lau (1994) for which Sandra Oh’s stunning debut performance won her the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Television Festival Scorn (2000) and 100 Days In The Jungle (2002), which both won Canadian Academy Gemini Awards for Best TV Movie, and the CBS classic, The Man Who Saved Christmas (2002). His next film, the cinema verite classic, Final Offer, about the landmark GM Canada strike that led to the breakup of the United Autoworkers Union, won the Canadian Academy Genie Award for best feature documentary in 1985, and was selected as one of the ‘top ten of the decade’ by the International Documentary Association. After the Axe, a genre-blending docu-fiction about a corporate hit man and the executive he’s hired to terminate, made for the National Film Board of Canada, was nominated in the Feature Documentary category at the 1982 Academy Awards.

His first film was nominated for an Oscar. He studied at the University of British Columbia, and completed an undergraduate degree in English Literature and the Masters Film/Theater program. He left Iceland at six for Vancouver, where he grew up.

Recent work includes multiple episodes of the hit CBC/Netflix comedy, Schitt’s Creek, and the acclaimed Montreal police drama, 19-2 as well as directing and co–executive producing the pilot and multiple episodes of the CBC’s Street Legal reboot. His feature films, TV drama, comedy and documentary films have received dozens of awards, including an Emmy, the Prix Italia, multiple Canadian Screen Awards and Directors Guild Awards and an Oscar© nomination. Sturla Gunnarsson is a Canadian screen director whose work moves fluidly between fiction and non-fiction.