# Nick Hector

Nick Hector is a British Canadian film producer and editor, and professor of film production at the University of Windsor.

## Career

Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini for editing King's TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" and Gemini Award-winning Dying at Grace, which the Toronto International Film Festival described as “one of the best ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on Yvan Patry’s Hot Docs Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson’s Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary.
Hector's credits include Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning Crimes of the Heart; Min Sook Lee’s Hogtown and Allan King’s Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company. He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and also the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner Monsoon. Most recently, Hector was awarded a Canadian Screen Award for editing the Canadian instalment of Ridley Scott's Life in a Day franchise Canada in a Day.
In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries The Perfect Story, Prey, Sharkwater Extinction, Wiebo's War, Thay - The Teacher, War Surgeon, Actuality, and the award-winning El Chogui. He served as series producer for Birth Stories and Love is Not Enough and co-director of the CSA Award-winning series War Story. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for Wiebo's War.
In 2018, Hector completed the movie Sharkwater Extinction after the death of Rob Stewart.
Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, Canadian Cinema Editors, and British Film Editors and holds a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1989 | Electronic Jam | Editor, Sound Editor | Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound |
| 1991 | Nuit et silence | Editor, Sound Editor | Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire |
| 1996 | Hand of God | Editor | HotDocs Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 1997 | Chronique d'un genocide | Editor | Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire |
| 1999 | The Dragon's Egg | Editor | Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2002 | El Chogui | Producer, Editor | Contra el Silencio todas las Voces (Mexico) Award for Best Documentary La Festival Medias Nord-Sud (Switzerland) Award for Best Independent Film Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival Award for Best Documentary San Francisco Latino Film Festival Award for Best in Festival La Cinemafe Film Festival (New York) Special Jury Prize |
| 2003 | Inside Information | Editor | Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2003 | Dying at Grace | Editor | Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team |
| 2005 | Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company | Editor | Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team |
| 2006 | EMPz 4 Life | Editor | Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team |
| 2009 | Air India 182 | Editor | Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2010 | Experimental Eskimos | Editor | Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award |
| 2011 | Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie | Editor | Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award |
| 2012 | Wiebo's War | Producer, Editor | Finalist - Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2013 | Echoes | Editor | Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2014 | War Story | Co-director, Editor | Finalist - Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2015 | Monsoon | Editor | Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award |
| 2016 | This Changes Everything | Editor | Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2017 | Canada in a Day | Editor | Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2017 | Unfractured | Editor | Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2017 | How to Prepare for Prison | Editor | Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2018 | Sharkwater Extinction | Producer, Editor | Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2019 | Prey | Co-producer, Editor | HotDocs Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing |
| 2020 | Fight to the Finish | Co-producer, Editor | Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary |
| 2022 | The Perfect Story | Co-producer, Editor | Best Canadian Documentary - Calgary International Film Festival Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Program |
| 2023 | The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain | Editor, Story Editor | Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Film Editing |