Peter O’Brian

Born in Toronto Peter OBrian grew up in England but moved back to the city of his birth in 1959 He briefly attended the University of Toronto and then moved on to Emerson College in Boston to study film production graduating in 1969 with a double major in mass communications and film He returned to Toronto and first worked as an assistant director and production manager while developing scripts he could produce The first film he produced on his own was the Dan Aykroyd vehicle emLove at First Sightem He founded Independent Pictures in 1977 and went on to produce films that won a total of nineteen a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscaawardsarchivegenieawardsGenie Awardsa Two of them emThe Grey Foxem 1982 and emMy American Cousinem 1985 earned the Best Picture Genie The poster for emThe Grey Foxem was scanned from an original in the Northernstars Collection In 2005 OBrian accepted the position as chair of the board of TVOntariobrbrAlso see Peter OBrians a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscaborsosphilliptributeTribute to Philip Borsosabrbrbr