# Douglas Koch

Douglas Koch is a Canadian cinematographer who has won honours at the Canadian Screen Awards and Canadian Music Video Awards.
Koch is from Vancouver and studied film at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, finishing in 1983. He went on to shoot music videos for artists such as Anne Murray and Sarah McLachlan, winning a cinematography award at the MuchMusic Video Awards in 1994 for "And if Venice Is Sinking".
He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Cinematography for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) and Last Night (1998), as well as for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature for Last Night. In 2015, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Comedy Program or Series for HBO Canada and Bell Media's episode "The Three Sisters" in the TV series Sensitive Skin. He was nominated for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Theatrical Feature Cinematography for the 2018 Through Black Spruce.

## Filmography
### Film

Documentary film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1984 | Snowscreen | Robert Shoub | With Robert Shoub |
| 1987 | The Sexiest Animal | Stephen Withrow | With Rhett Morita |
| 1991 | The Falls | Kevin McMahon | |
Feature film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1987 | I've Heard the Mermaids Singing | Patricia Rozema | |
| 1987 | Night Friend | Peter Gerretsen | |
| 1988 | Martha, Ruth & Edie | Deepa Mehta Norma Bailey Danièle J. Suissa | |
| 1988 | Dear John | Catherine Lord | |
| 1988 | Turnabout | Don Owen | With John Herzog |
| 1989 | Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics | Stephen Withrow | |
| 1990 | Defy Gravity | Michael Gibson | |
| 1995 | When Night Is Falling | Patricia Rozema | |
| 1998 | Last Night | Don McKellar | |
| 2002 | Bollywood/Hollywood | Deepa Mehta | |
| 2003 | The Republic of Love | Deepa Mehta | |
| 2013 | The Grand Seduction | Don McKelllar | |
| 2018 | Through Black Spruce | Don McKelllar | |
| 2020 | Funny Boy | Deepa Mehta | |
| 2022 | Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | |
| 2024 | Humane | Caitlin Cronenberg | |
| 2024 | The Shrouds | David Cronenberg | |
Short film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1991 | Battle of the Bulge | Arlene Hazzan Green | |
| 1993 | Collateral Damage | Leonard Farlinger | |
| 1999 | Rusty | Jeremy Hindle | |
| 2000 | A Word from the Management | Don McKellar | Segment of Preludes |
| 2008 | The Catsitter | Tim Hamilton | |
| 2015 | It's Not You | Don McKellar | |
| 2023 | Moments Away | Stephanie Morgenstern | |
| 2023 | Alone | Charles Uwagbai | |
| 2023 | Meta Mom | Simone Stock | |
| 2023 | Black Paris | Sid Zanforlin | |

### Television

TV movies
| Year | Title | Director |
| 1987 | The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe | Peter Gerretsen |
| 2002 | Untitled Secret Service Project | Rupert Wainwright |
| 2004 | Meltdown | Jeremiah S. Chechik |
| 2017 | Perverts Anonymous: Episodes 1-3 | Tim Hamilton |
| 2017 | Perverts Anonymous: Episode 1, Disguises | Tim Hamilton |
TV series
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 2007 | Not This But This | Mark Mainguy | |
| 2007 | The Bronx Is Burning | Jeremiah S. Chechik | Miniseries |
| 2008 | The Middleman | Jeremiah S. Chechik | Episode "The Pilot Episode Sanction" |
| 2011–2017 | Michael: Every Day | Don McKellar Alison Maclean Patricia Rozema | All 18 episodes |
| 2013 | Bodyslam | Robert Budreau | TV special |
| 2014–2016 | Sensitive Skin | Don McKellar | All 12 episodes |
| 2015 | The Second City Project | Tim Hamilton | |
| 2022 | Children Ruin Everything | Renuka Jeyapalan Melanie Orr | Season 1 |