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Mirosław Baszak is a Polish-born Canadian cinematographer. Baszak's work includes Pontypool,Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Land of the Dead and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. Baszak was born in Poland, where he acted and worked in theatre. He also studied history and theory at University of Łódź. In early 1980s he emigrated to Germany and then in 1983 to Canada. There he attended Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's film course in 1984. Since then he collaborated on over 30 Canadian and American feature films, as well as many commercials and music videos. 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography - Shake Hands with the Devil - Nominee 1999 Canadian Society of Cinematographers CSC Award for Best Cinematography in a TV series - Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families - Nominated
Birthplace
Poland
Filmography
36 films, 8 shows


Devil's Gate
2018 · 1h 34m · CA
Set in the small town of Devil's Gate, North Dakota, the film examines the disappearance of a local woman and her young son. Schull plays an FBI agent who helps the local sheriff search for answers. Partnering with a deputy , they track down the missing woman's husband and find that nothing is as it seems.


Man Vs.
2015 · 1h 25m · CA
As host of his own hit TV series, 'MAN VS', Doug Woods is forced to fend for himself for five days in remote locations with no crew, food, or water, only the cameras he carries on his back to film his experiences. Doug's in the remote woods for a routine episode, until he's awoken by an earth-shaking crash. Things get weirder as it becomes clear Doug isn't alone. Someone or something is watching him.


Flowers in the Attic
2014 · 1h 30m · CA
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.


Stalkers
2013 · 1h 30m
Revolves around a criminal prosecutor who penned the law on stalking in California and is based on the true story of a hot-head cop and polished district attorney who team to bring a stalker obsessed with her former lover to justice.


House at the End of the Street
2012 · 1h 41m · US
A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.


The Bang Bang Club
2011 · 1h 46m · CA
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.


When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
2010 · 1h 36m · CA
Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.


The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
2009 · 1h 58m · US
Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers Murphy and Connor must come out of hiding on a sheep farm in Ireland to fight for justice in Boston.


Pontypool
2009 · 1h 36m · CA
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.


Shake Hands with the Devil
2007 · 1h 52m · CA
In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Its mission, to ensure the ceasefire, is underfunded, excessively bureaucratized and made up of military units which come from dozens of countries and which each have a very different program... These are Lt Gen Dallaire's efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.


Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
2006 · 1h 35m · CA
The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail, upon release they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty", a plan to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.


Land of the Dead
2005 · 1h 33m · CA
The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.


The Gospel of John
2003 · 3h · CA
A word for word depiction of the life of Jesus Christ from the Good News Translation Bible as recorded in the Gospel of John.


Conviction
2002 · 1h 39m · CA
The story of Carl Upchurch who experiences jail as a young adult. While in prison, a compassionate teacher helps turn his life around through education and religion. He in turn is inspired to help other troubled youths.


Picture Claire
2001 · 1h 31m · CA
Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to visit him in Toronto. She shows up on his doorstep after an arson attack leaves her homeless, but soon finds herself caught up in a case of murder and mistaken identity.


Two of Us
2000 · 1h 30m · CA
In this purely fictional story, Paul McCartney drops by The Dakota to visit John Lennon in 1976. Paul is still on top of the music world, reaching #1 with his new band, Wings. John, however, has retired from public life, choosing to raise his son, Sean. Rumors are rampant that The Beatles are going to reunite to play a concert. Paul, the consummate entertainer, is intrigued by the possibilities. But John, still fighting his inner demons, is content keeping Beatlemania a thing of the past. But even though the two men are still at odds over the band, they rediscover that they still have bonds from the past that will never go away.


Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998 · 1h 47m · US
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey when the tourists accidentally get mixed up in a drug dealer's murder and money heist, while the detectives go after a hit man posing as a friend from the `hood'.


Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
1998 · 1h 49m · CA
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.


Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
1997 · 1h 46m · US
First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of two short films, "Mamusha," as the Nazis invade her country, a Polish Catholic housekeeper takes under her wing the youngster in the Jewish family for whom she is employed, and shepherds him through WWII in hopes of ultimately getting him repatriated to Palestine. In "Woman on a Bicycle," an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the church to distribute underground communication pamphlets for the Resistance and ultimately ends up helping the church shelter 19 Jews.


The Size of Watermelons
1997 · 1h 32m · CA
Slacker art student Alex is suddenly inspired to make a documentary about his friend Gnome's campaign to "free Hawaii." While putting together a motley film crew and unexpectedly stumbling across the girl of his dreams, Maggie, he discovers that Gnome, along with the film's funding are nowhere to be found.
Eclipse
Eclipse
1995 · 1h 35m · CA
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.


Dance Me Outside
1995 · 1h 24m · CA
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.


Zero Patience
1993 · 1h 40m · CA
The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an exhibition about the disease for the museum's "Hall of Contagion".


The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore
1992 · 16m · CA
Mump & Smoot find a book and start to read it. The book's comic & tragic story is about a fairy who is tired of the abuse he suffers for being a fairy.


Tectonic Plates
1992 · 1h 46m · CA
An adaptation of Robert Lepage's stage play about lost love and considered suicide.


Blue
1992 · 22m · CA
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.


Highway 61
1991 · 1h 43m · CA
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.


Roadkill
1989 · 1h 25m · CA
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.