John Kalangis
John Kalangis is a filmmaker, writer, director, interactive media producer and national broadcast executive. From May 2007, Kalangis was the Executive in Charge of Original Interactive Arts & Entertainment at CBC Television before joining marblemedia, a television and interactive content company, as creative director in spring 2009.
Career as a filmmaker
His first feature film, "Jack & Jill" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1998 and received a Genie nomination for Best Supporting Actress and Best Director for a debut film. It was a micro-budgeted film shot in 11 days and executive produced by Oscar nominee, writer and director Atom Egoyan.
His second feature, “Love is Work” won the American Express People’s Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the world premiere at the Whistler International Film Festival in 2005. In spring 2006, the film cast won a special jury prize in Toronto and was the inaugural film for the NFB and Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television’s Critic’s Choice screening series. Also that spring, multi-Oscar winner Paul Haggis presented the film at its U.S. premiere in Los Angeles.
