FINALIST - 2020, Best International Documentary, Pacific Beach Film Festival, San Diego, California

NOMINATED - 2020, Bluewater Film Festival, In Celebration of World Oceans Day, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

WINNER - 2019 Festival at Browns Point, Tacoma, Washington

WINNER - 2017 Grand Winner, Best Feature Documentary, California Film Awards

WINNER - 2017 San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival Wildlife Award

WINNER - 2016 Best Atlantic Filmmaker Award Lunenburg DocFest

NOMINATED - 2018 World Toronto Open Film Festival - Best Documentary

NOMINATED - 2017 Raindance Film Festival - Best Feature Documentary

NOMINATED - 2017, Social Justice Competition and Official Selection, US Premiere Santa Barbara International Film Festival

NOMINATED - 2017 Golden Sheaf Award Yorkton Film Festival - Science/Nature/Technology

Opening Night Film See & Sea 2017, Busan, South Korea

2018 World Climate Change Conference, San Francisco, Californ

2019 Blue Sky Film Festival, Missoula, Montana

2018 Explorers Club, New York City, with Carl Safina for World Ocean Day.

2017 Explorers Club, Toronto

An Official Selection at 26 international Festivals Film Festivals (2017-2020)

IN THE GUTTER

& OTHER GOOD PLACES

(Feature Doc, 1989)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

HOT DOCS

ROBOGODS (Feature Doc, 1994)

BEST PROJECT

Atlantic Film Festival -

Linday Joy-Busby Award

IDFA Forum Selection

TIMEPIECE (Short Doc, 2010)

CIFVF Award

PORTFOLIO (1989, Short Drama)

BEST FILM

Atlantic Film Festival

BEST Director

Atlantic Film Festival

BEST SCRIPT

Atlantic Film Festival

BEST EDITING

Atlantic Film Festival

BEST MUSIC

Atlantic Film Festival

BRONZE APPLE

Oakland Film Festival

JOHNSTON ... JOHNSTON (2004)

SILVER

Houston International Film Festival

SILVER

Charleston International Film Fest

HONOURABLE MENTION

New York Film Festival

Modesto Film Festival

William F. White 2012 Filmmaker of the Year

FilmPEI 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award

JOHN HOPKINS, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Prince Edward Island based John Hopkins has produced, written, and directed numerous shorts and TV commercials for clients such as CBC, CTV. and Bravo. He recently wrote and directed Bluefin (2017), a feature documentary about Bluefin tuna fishing in PEI for the National Film Board of Canada. Hopkins began making docs when he produced, directed and shot and edited Timepiece,  (2013) which looks at the art and creative thinking of the late Hilda Woolnough RCA, the filmmaker’s mother. He recently produced, and directed the short doc Pituamkek, (2021) about Mi'kmaq efforts to reclaim their spiritual and ancenstral past through a new reconcilliation project with Parks Canada Reserve.

John Hopkins is also a talented cinematographer. Documentary Credits include  Bluefin (Feature, NFB, 2017). The Farm (Feature, 2013) Kitchen Goddess (Feature,NFB 1994). In the Gutter and Other Good Places (Feature, CBC/Arte 1994)  Tops and Bottoms (Feature,TVO) and Shark Week (Series, Discovery Channel) and many other short docs.

Drama: Forty Below and Falling, 2016 Dramatic 3D Lumiere Award-Winning Feature, Portolio (1989. Short).

Music Videos: Christmas on Planet Earth, Lenny Gallant (2018), Dance into the Light, Amanda Jackson Band (2018)

His 35mm dramatic short Johnston...Johnston (1994) premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival starring Henry Czerny and Lenore Zann. His experimental short Portfolio, won five awards at the Atlantic Film Festival (1989). John and an invite to be Atom Egoyan's understudy as sponsored by the Academy of Cinema and Television Director’s Observer program.

John Hopkins Robosapiens project was invited to the IDFA Forum in Amsterdam, as one of only two projects selected to pitch from North America by an international jury.

John Hopkins holds a double-major BA in Film Studies and Political Science from Carleton University, and was a top student at Sheridan College Media Arts Program, winning both Sheridan’s Media Arts Award for Best Production, as well as Can-Pro Gold for the Best Student Film Production in Canada.

He recently helped design, build and install a multi-studio Mi'kmaq language broadcast centre for Eskasoni First Nation, the first fully equipped station of its kind in Atlantic Canada. He also helped train Mi'kmaq youth how to shoot and edit documentaries. Doors opened in 2023.

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