Peter Raymont is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and producer, born on February 28, 1950, in Ottawa, Canada. He is the president of White Pine Pictures, an independent film, television, and new media production company based in Toronto.
Among his most internationally recognized films are the 2009 feature documentary "Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould" and "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire" (2005),both of which he co-directed with Michele Hozer. Other notable films include "A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman" (2007),"The World Stopped Watching" (2003),and "The World Is Watching" (1988).
Raymont is also the Executive Producer of the television drama series, The Border, which he co-created with Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean, and Jeremy Hole. The series has been broadcast in over 25 countries.
Throughout his 40-year career, Raymont has produced and directed over 100 documentary films and television programs. His films have taken him to various locations around the world, including Ethiopia, Nicaragua, India, Rwanda, Chile, the High Arctic, and throughout North America and Europe.
Raymont has received numerous international awards, including an Emmy, the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, a Canadian Genie, five Gemini Awards, several Gold and Silver Hugos, the Sesterce d'Argent, and other honors.
His films often investigate "hidden worlds" in politics, media, and big business, and are informed by his passion for human rights and social justice. They are regularly broadcast on private and public TV networks worldwide.
Raymont's documentary feature, "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire," won the 2005 Audience Award for World Cinema Documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival and the 2007 Emmy Award for Best Documentary.
"A Promise To The Dead" was short-listed for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social-Political Documentary by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
"Genius Within" premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and was later broadcast on the PBS series "American Masters." It won the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Biography Documentary presented by the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television.
Throughout his career, Raymont has been driven by a passion for human rights and social justice, and his films have been recognized for their thought-provoking investigations of "hidden worlds" in politics, media, and big business.
