Premise: Zale Dalen is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for the 1980 film "The Hounds of Notre Dame", for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981, and the cult films "Skip Tracer" (1977) and "Terminal City Ricochet" (1990).
Hypothesis: Zale garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 1st Genie Awards in 1981.