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Based in Prince Edward Island, Hopkins is a mixed heritage Canadian with UK/North African Berber family. He began as a freelance CBC journalist at 16 years of age, and later graduated from Carleton with a Double Major BA in Film Studies and Political Science.
For the last 20 years John Hopkins has worked with the best talent in Canada, and has won over 20 national and international awards. He has been recognized as one of the region's finest documentary filmmakers winning Best Atlantic Filmmaker at Lunenburg Docfest for his feature documentary Bluefin (2017).
Bluefin was Nominated at the Raindance and the Santa Barbara International Film Festivals and garnered 8 other Best Film Nominations, winning 4 Best Documentary Awards including the Wildlife Award at the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, and Grand Prize at the California Film Awards.
In 2020, Bluefin was broadcast on CBC's Documentary Channel, and shown on dozens of broadcast networks worldwide and streaming on countless online platforms. Gravitas Ventures/Red Arrow to commercial markets while the NFB/Bullfrog Films are distributing to educational markets in Canada and the US respectively.
His other docs Pituamkek (2021) and Timepiece (2013) were also Nominated and selected by many festivals.
His 35mm dramatic short Johnston ...Johnston (1994), starrimg acclaimed actor Henry Czerny, won several film festivals award. His first film Portfolio (1989) won five awards at the Atlantic Film Festival including Best Film, Director and Writer. Both films aired nationally on CBC.
Director/Cinematographer John Hopkins lives in the vibrant community of the Dixon Road, in rural PEI, where he and many others grow their own gardens and cross-country ski. John is also an expert fly-tyer, fly-caster, and has won snooker and eight-ball tournaments. He loves playing pickleball, bocci-ball, fishing for striped bass at night on the ocean and speaking Spanish. John travelled extensively in latin America, Mexico, the US, Europe and Asia.
John Hopkins is an an acclaimed filmmaker. Among his recent films, he wrote, directed, and shot his feature doc Bluefin (2017, 53:18) for the National Film Board of Canada. It became an international hit and best selling title. Raindance chose Hopkins's doc as one of five best international environmental documentaries made in the last decade.
Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television Director Observer John Hopkins and Atom Egoyan pause between shooting scenes on THE ADJUSTER (91).
John Hopkins and Joan Hutton CSC share BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Award at Hot Docs for the Genie Award winning "In the Gutter and Other Good Places"
STOCK FOOTAGE
We are located in Prince Edward Island off Canada’s East Coast (pop. 180,000). PEI is a rural area where fishing and farming are large industries, and hosts a tourism industry which brings between 900,000 and 1.4 million tourists in the summer months.
We have shot hours of PEI stock broadcast quality footage including outstanding drone landscapers. We can also shoot custom B-Roll scenes for your project needs. Just reach out and let us know what you want.
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John Hopkins wins THE WILDLIFE AWARD at the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival for BLUEFIN.
John Hopkins, Director/Cinematographer.
Check out John Hopkins cinematography for the"Tulips and the Monks" short shot for CBC DOC's Hello Spring (2021)
Producer, Director John Hopkins is foremost a masterful storyteller and visual cinematographer. His work has been commissioned by TV networks, commercial agencies, businesses, government, First Nations and other producers. He often shoots for other documentary directors and producers.
John shoots with RED, Arri, Black Magic, and Atomos recorders. Square Deal's in-house cameras include the Sony FX6 and FX3 cameras. Other gear includes a DJI RS2 Gimble and full set of GMaster primes/zooms. Square Deal also offers is equipped with a professional colour correction suite and offline editing suite running both Resolve and FCPX.