Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Ontario
- City: Toronto
- How do you Identify?: Black. he/him. Caribbean-Canadian. British. Nerd.
- Experience Level: Mid-Career
- Field of Work: Other
- Union: Non-Union
- Interested In: Other
- Favourite Movies: Oy I dread this. Still here are a couple. Get Out, On The Waterfront, The Bicycle Thieves, Nosferatu, The Harder They Come, The Ox-Box Incident, Nothing But A Man, Network, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,The Bridge on the River Kwai, War of The Worlds
- Favourite TV Shows: Atlanta, The Twilight Zone, Fleabag, Master of None, Line of Duty, Ozark, Catastrophe, Gentleman Jack, Extras. Seinfeld. The Office (UK). Fawlty Towers. Star Trek. Fargo. Barry. Watchmen, Bob's Burgers
- Pitch a Project: N/A
- Contact Information: https://www.instagram.com/powysdewhurst/?hl=en
- Link: https://linktr.ee/PowysDewhurst
- Link 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15tXxXBBZs
- Link 3: https://mubi.com/users/11255350
Bio
Industry Programming, Filmmaker Development, Cameraman
Industry Programming/Talent Development:
Since 2012 Powys has produced forward-facing film and TV industry events with a focus on filmmaker development initiatives and industry programming.
He has worked in collaboration with the gamut of Canadian and US media organizations and film festivals including Bell Media, Corus, CBC, Visual Effects Society and others to create training, funding, access and screenings for diverse emerging to mid-career film and TV creators and students at venues including Ontario Place, Hot Docs Cinema, the formerly named Ryerson University, and Canadian Film Centre.
Powys has sourced hundreds of speakers, partnerships, panelists, funders, keynotes, instructors, from multiple Academy Award winners, an astronaut, university Ph.Ds. in the US, Canada and Europe including Harvard, Columbia, York, Univesity of London, and University of Toronto professors.
He has been a guest industry judge and speaker at CMPA: Prime Time, Planet In Focus – Canada’s Largest Environmental Film Festival, The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Female Eye Film Festival, Regent Park Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival UK, Toronto Black Film Festival and others.
His letters of reference include UNESCO.
He was selected by Canadian Government, Canadian Heritage and Cirque du Soleil as one to have his work represent Canada internationally at World Expo 2010 Shanghai which saw 73 million international visitors in 2010.
As a photojournalist he has been commissioned by WIRED, Island Life, MACO, The Chronicle Newspaper and the Sun Newspaper (Dominica). His work has run in the Toronto Star and Los Angeles Times among other publications.
He grew up in Barbados and Dominica before immigrating to Canada with his family. He’s Black, Caribbean-Canadian and British.
Intro
Best and most surprising compliment ever? After a lengthy face to face discussion with Sidney Poitier and his assistant over food and drinks about everything from life, 3D, death, IMAX, space travel, dinosaur bones and oil, and choices and regrets, I realized it was well after midnight. I politely said goodnight so as to not overstay our welcome. He was surprised that we were leaving and not he.
As my friend and I were about to leave Sidney Poitier asked his assistant “Why don’t I ever meet young men like this?”
That was the mountaintop. When I sat down I said “I’ve waited decades to ask you a lifetime of questions, but I’m only going to ask you three.” I held up my three fingers. He clasped his hands with excitement and joyous laugher and out of those three questions, we spoke for hours, and we mostly listened. I’ll never be able to top that experience.
I really did only intend to ask him three questions.
Reel/Clips
https://youtu.be/d15tXxXBBZsWhy I Dig Movies?