Guy Maddin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Guy Maddin
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 28, 1956(1956-02-28)
Age	68
Country	Canada
Birth City	Winnipeg
Horoscope	Aquarius

Guy Maddin Biography

Guy Maddin is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on February 28, 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada. Canadian filmmaker who imitated silent film era style in films like My Winning and Dracula Pages from a Virgin’s Diary.

Although he wasn’t as well-known as his fellow Canadian director He wasn’t as famous as fellow Canadian director James Cameron, but he received much acclaim in art film circles., he was much respected in art film circles.

Guy Maddin, CM OM (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada’s most well-known and celebrated filmmakers.

After graduating, Maddin held a variety of odd jobs, including bank manager, house painter, and photo archivist. Maddin began to take film classes at the University of Manitoba. There, Maddin met film professor Stephen Snyder, who held regular film screenings of titles from the school’s film library at his home. Maddin attended, as did some early collaborators, including his friend John Boles Harvie, the future star of Maddin’s first film, and filmmaker John Paizs. Maddin appeared as an actor in two of Paizs’ short films, as a student in Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms (1982) and as a transvestite, homicidal nurse in The International Style (1983). Maddin drew early inspiration from the films of John Paizs, as well as experimental shorts by Stephen Snyder. Other early influences included L’Age d’Or by Luis Buñuel (in collaboration with Salvador Dalí) and Eraserhead by David Lynch. Maddin has stated that these films, along with the work of Paizs and Snyder, “were movies that were primitive in many respects. They were low budget, they used nonactors or nonstars, they used atmospheres and ideas, and were unbelievably honest, frank, and, therefore, exciting to me. They made moviemaking seem possible to me.” Maddin also met film professor George Toles, who became Maddin’s cowriter on many of his future films. Maddin’s core group of friends from this period, who played various roles in the production of his early film projects, were known as “the Drones” and included Harvie, Ian Handford, and Kyle McCulloch (now a writer for South Park).

He was born in Winnipeg (Manitoba). His mother, Herdis Maddin, was a hairdresser. His father Charles Maddin ran a local hockey club.

Guy Maddin Net Worth

Guy Maddin is one of the richest Director from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Guy Maddin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Before settling down in film, he worked as a bank manager and house painter. He also appeared in many school productions and released his own short film.

In 2012, he was awarded the Order of Canada.

Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on February 28, 1956, to Herdis Maddin (a hairdresser) and Charles “Chas” Maddin (grain clerk and general manager of the Maroons, a Winnipeg hockey team). Maddin has three older siblings: Ross (b. 1944), Cameron (1946–63), and Janet (b. 1949). Maddin attended Winnipeg public schools— the Greenway School (elementary school), General Wolfe (junior high school), and the Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute (high school).

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Maddin’s third feature, Careful (1992), was styled after another early cinema genre, the German mountain picture (or Bergfilm) — a surprising choice, given that (as filmmaker Caelum Vatnsdal has noted), “Winnipeg’s highest peak is, in fact, an artificial hill that had been created by laying sod over a garbage dump.”. Maddin was ordered by the producers to shoot in colour, and so Careful became Maddin’s first colour film, shot on 16 mm film with a budget of CA$1.1 million (equivalent to CA$1,746,905 in 2018). the colour style of the film emulated the two colour Technicolor movies of the early 1930s. Kyle McCulloch again starred, alongside other Maddin regulars such as Brent Neale and Ross McMillan. At one point, Martin Scorsese had agreed to act in the film, as Count Knotkers, but bowed out to complete Cape Fear. Maddin pursued casting hockey star Bobby Hull, but ended up casting Paul Cox.

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Maddin’s fourth feature, also scripted by Toles and inspired by the novel Pan by Knut Hamsun, ended up being Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997), his second in colour and his first shot in 35 mm, on a budget of CA$1.5 million (equivalent to CA$2,213,496 in 2018). Set in the fictional land of Mandragora, where the sun does not set, a newly released convict returns to his family’s ostrich farm and is embroiled in a host of romantic complications involving a heavy-breasted statue of Venus. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs featured Shelley Duvall and Frank Gorshin; The film’s star, Nigel Whitmey, had his name removed from the film’s credits after Maddin chose to remove Whitmey’s voice from the film and replace it with Ross McMillan’s.