• Source: Josh Freed

      • Josh Freed is a Canadian writer, director and actor.
      He has won two Chris Awards for Best North American Current Affairs Documentary. In Canada, Freed has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, three Writers Guild of Canada Awards and a Genie Award.
      He writes a weekly humour column in The Gazette. He received two National Newspaper Awards for best Canadian columnist in 1997 and 2002.


      Early life


      Freed was born and raised in Montreal and grew up on De L’Épée Avenue. Being Jewish, he attended Protestant schools because Catholic schools did not accept Jewish students at the time.


      Bibliography


      1980: Moonwebs: Journey into the Mind of a Cult
      1983: The Anglo Guide to Survival in Québec
      1990: Sign Language and Other Tales of Montreal Wildlife
      1996: Vive le Québec Freed!
      1997: Fear of Frying...and Other Fax of Life
      1999: 2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium
      2000: Press 1 and Pray...and Other Letters from Voice Jail
      2023: Bicycle Bob and the bike revolution
      The events described in the 1980 book inspired the award-winning movie Ticket to Heaven and led to the creation of Info-Cult.


      Filmography




      = As director

      =
      1991 : North to Nowhere (TV)
      1993 : Paradise Lost (TV)
      1994 : Escaping from History
      1995 : Merchandising Murder
      1995 : The Last Train
      2000 : Selling the Water
      2000 : Polar Bear Safari
      2002 : Juggling Dreams (TV)
      2003 : To Kill or to Cure (TV)
      2004 : In Search of Sleep: an Insomniac’s Journey (TV)
      2006 : China’s Sexual Revolution (TV)
      2008 : My Messy Life (TV)
      2010 : Where Did I Put My Memory? (TV)


      = As a writer

      =
      1988 : A Song for Quebec
      1992 : Between the Solitudes
      1997 : Magic Time
      2000 : Selling the Water
      2000 : Polar Bear Safari
      2002 : Juggling Dreams (TV)


      = As an actor

      =
      1981 : Ticket to Heaven


      References




      External links


      Josh Freed at IMDb
      JoshFreed.ca

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