Phil Pendry

Phil Pendry is an awardwinning cinematographer and director based in Toronto Ontario Although born in England he has long been a resident of Canada and has shot documentaries television series short films music videos commercials and highend corporate communications projects As a documentary cameraman he has covered 30 conflicts in the Middle East Africa and Vietnam The Canadian Society of Cinematographers named him Television News Cameraman of the Year in 1971 He has also been recognized with awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the American Federation of the Arts His documentary emLittle Mountaiemn screened at the Native American Film Festival and was given a Media Access Award in 1994 He received a Gemini Award in 1998 for his work on the series iMoving Oni and in 2007 he was given a Videographer Award for his work on a project for Toronto Public Health titled emToward a Healthy Cityem directed by Northernstars founder a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscalucasraRalph Lucasa They had previously worked together on the featurelength documentary emThree For the Roadem emFilm No4em is better known as Bottoms or Bums and was produced by Yoko Ono Phil let us know that at the end of January 2017 when he would be 90 he was heading off for a twoweek shoot in Africa It is thought that he is the oldest working cameraman in Canada These are his credits as a directorbrbrPhoto 2011 by a hreflucasraRalph Lucasa for Northernstarscabrbrbr