
Person
Nick Hector
Editing
Biography
Nick Hector CCE BFE ACE is a filmmaker and an associate professor in cinema arts at the University of Windsor. He has edited or produced more than 150 documentary films and programs across North & Central America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Nick began his career in television journalism and soon specialized in long-form documentary, particularly cinéma-vérité. Some of his best-known work stems from his long creative relationship with legendary Canadian filmmakers Allan King, Matt Gallagher, Yvan Patry, and Sturla Gunnarsson. Nick's work has been screened at most major international festivals and includes two films on Criterion, three Top Ten Canadian films, five films at MoMA, 11 at TIFF, and 15 at HotDocs. Nick has been nominated for 36 national film awards and is the winner of thirteen; including Canadian Screen, HotDocs, Directors Guild of Canada, Canadian Cinema Editors, and Gemini Awards. His creative works have won 48 national and international awards.
Known for

The Experimental Eskimos
Editor

This Changes Everything
Editor

Hand of Fate
Editor

Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
Editor

Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
Editor

Prey
Editor

Unfractured
Editor

re:LOCATION
Editor

Hogtown
Editor

Shamed
Editor
Filmography
- 2025ShamedEditor
- 2023The Man Who Stole Einstein's BrainEditor
- 2022The Perfect StoryEditor
- 2021re:LOCATIONEditor
- 2020Fight to the FinishEditor
- 2019PreyEditor
- 2018Sharkwater ExtinctionEditor
- 2018The Way OutEditor
- 2017UnfracturedEditor
- 2017Canada in a DayEditor
- 2016How to Prepare for PrisonEditor
- 2015This Changes EverythingEditor
- 2014MonsoonEditor
- 2013Sector SarajevoEditor
- 2012EchoesEditor
- 2012PaybackEditor
- 2011Force of Nature: The David Suzuki MovieEditor
- 2011GrindersEditor
- 2011Wiebo's WarProducer
- 2010Badge of PrideEditor
- 2009The Experimental EskimosEditor
- 2008The Rise and Fall of the Grumpy BurgerEditor
- 2008Air India 182Editor
- 2007My Opposition: The Diaries of Friedrich KellnerEditor
- 2006EMPz 4 LifeEditor
- 2006Actuality: The Art and Life of Allan KingProducer
- 2005Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and CompanyEditor
- 2005HogtownEditor
- 2003Dying at GraceEditor
- 2003Crimes Of The HeartEditor
- 2000Saint JudeEditor
- 2000Western EyesEditor
- 1999Hand of FateEditor
- 1999The Dragon's Egg: Making Peace on the Wreckage of the Twentieth CenturyEditor
- 1999The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Herbert NormanAdditional Editing
- 1998It Takes a ChildEditor
- 1997My FeminismEditor
- 1997Drowning In DreamsEditor
- 1996Chronicle of a Genocide ForetoldEditor
- 1996Sitting on a VolcanoEditor
- 1995Hand of God, Hand of the DevilEditor
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