Montreal, Québec
Born in Prague Peter Svatek moved to Montreal Canada as a child and has been living there ever since A writer and director of both feature films and documentaries his films have won many international awards including LAs prestigious Epiphany Prize 2009 Among his films there are the internationallyacclaimed emCall of the Wildem 1997 starring Rutger Hauer and Richard Dreyfuss emEverything She Ever Wantedem starring Gina Gershon and the controversial documentary emStolen Babies Stolen Livesem about the stolen children of Argentinas Dirty War He is the cofounder with Josette Gauthier of Triplex Films a successful documentary production company His documentary feature emTakedown The DNA of GSPem was nominated for several 2015 Canadian Screen Awardsbrbrbr
Features & TV Movies
VR indicates Direct to Video Release
Beware, Beware, My Beauty Fair (1972, short)
The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck (1975)
Witchboard III: The Possession (1995)
Sci-fighters (VR-1996)
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (TV-1997)
Bleeders (1997)
Silver Wolf (TV-1997)
The Rendering (TV-2002)
Scent of Danger (TV-2002)
Student Seduction (TV-2003)
Baby for Sale (TV-2004)
Human Nature (TV-2004, documentary)
Widow on the Hill (TV-2005)
Proof of Lies (TV-2006)
Girl’s Best Friend (TV-2008)
Stolen Babies, Stolen Lives ((2008, documentary)
The Christmas Choir (TV-2008)
Takedown: The DNA of GSP (2014, documentary)
Theatre of Life (2015, documentary)
TV Series:
Kitty-Cats (1991)
Big Wolf on Campus (1999)
Live Through This (2000)
Everything She Ever Wanted (2009, mini-series)
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