About The Director

Graeme Campbell is a director and writer based in Toronto, Canada. As a teenager he wrote short stories, which drew him to the magical world of movies, a world he’s inhabited ever since.

He once had a mentor who told him that “the wonder is in the doing of it”. He’s never forgotten that.

Professionally, he started as an editor, and then moved into writing and directing documentaries for the educational market before making independent features, then
television. His first feature film, Murder One, had a successful North American theatrical release, which led to many more opportunities, such as Journey Into Darkness: The Bruce Curtis Story (aka Deadly Betrayal), the mini series Everest, and the series Degrassi, among others.

He adores actors and the feeling is mutual. He feels that this instinct combined with his post production background allows him to marry the cast, the camera, and the soundtrack in inventive ways.

He’ll always love telling stories.

  • Everest - Gemini Award – Best Overall Sound TV Movie or Mini Series 2009 

  • Instant Star - Gemini Award - Best Direction in a Children's or Youth program or Series, "You Can't Always Get What You Want", 2005

  • Guilt By Association - New York Festival Awards, Silver World Medal, 2003 American Bar Association Gavel Award, 2003

  • Unforgivable - Prism Commendation, 1996

  • Journey Into Darkness: The Bruce Curtis Story (Deadly Betrayal)

  • Gemini Award - Best Direction in a TV Movie or Mini-series, 1992

  • Gemini Award - Best TV Movie or Mini-series, 1992

  • Ray Bradbury Theatre – The Earthmen

  • Cable Ace - Best Drama 1992

ACCOLADES

AWARDS

NOMINATIONS

  • An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving - DGC Award - Team Achievement Television Movie (Family), 2009

  • Everest - CFTPA  Award - Best TV Movie or mini-series, 2009

  • Gemini – Best Visual FX TV Movie or mini Series, 2009

  • Instant Star - Gemini Award - Best Direction in a Children’s or Youth program or series, Episode 311 “Celebrity Skin” 2008

  • DGC Award - Team Achievement Television Series (Family) Episode 401 “Your Time is Gonna Come” 2008

  • Gemini Award - Best Direction in a Children’s or Youth program or series, Episode 203 “I Fought the Law”, 2007

  • DGC Award - Team Achievement Television Series (Family) for Episode 106 “Kiss Me Deadly”, 2005

REVIEWS

”Everest”
directed with aplomb by Graeme Campbell is entertaining and compelling. It’s an adventure story. It’s partly a tragedy. It’s the hosers do Everest, and what a motley crew they are.”

— John Doyle, Globe and Mail

"the Turner Classic Movie, “Going for Broke”, is a great example of a TV movie that is able to pull back the curtain on the realities of gambling addiction. As the movie progresses, the audience can see the mental strain wearing Laura down, her priorities changing from where they began at opening credits and the desperation that drives her to make worse and worse decisions."

— Ben Stamos, “Filmlink”

“An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving”

Graeme Campbell infuses the tale with richly layered tensions no happy ending can entirely dissipate. Potential Turkey Day Perennial could wield theatrical appeal abroad.”

— Ronnie Scheib, Variety

“Through the creative and brilliant direction of Graeme Campbell, the viewer is taken on a roller coaster ride through hell. Using flashbacks, tense courtroom drama and some frightfully vivid jail scenes, Campbell and cast tell a riveting story. “Deadly Betrayal” is a work of art and it stands on its own frightening two feet.”

– Scott Watkins, New York Times

“Murder One”

is a suspenseful, brutal and tautly told tale that measures up to its title.”

— Richard Shepherd, New York Times.