Glynis Whiting has written, directed and produced feature-length documentaries, dramas, and half-hour comedies. She is a produced playwright and a published author.
Feature documentaries: “Time Steps” (writer/director) “Journey Home: A Dialysis Story” (writer/director)
Feature dramas: “Blood Clan”, starring Gordon Pinsent (writer/producer) and “Strange and Rich” (Global TV; story editor/producer).
One-hour documentaries: “Sterilization of Leilani Muir” (CBC; director); “Born at Home” (ACCESS TV; writer/director), “Jericho: Walls of Silence” (CBC; director), “When Girls Do it” (CTV; director), ; “Tracking Stolen Horses” (CTV; director), “X-Weighted” (director), and as writer/director on episodes of the critically acclaimed Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series “David Suzuki’s Nature of Things”: “Weight of the World”, “Worst Case Scenario”, and “Gone Sideways”.
TV half-hours range from comedies “Nobody’s Business”, pilot, ITV (creator/producer), “Pink Card Club” (director) to children’s “Baba’s House”, pilot (ACCESS; writer/producer) and “Bee Alert Burt” (ACCESS; director).
As a playwright, projects include “Wildflowers“ (Lethbridge Theatre), “Staircase” (Macgowan Hall, Los Angeles), “Morton Creek Once More” (Citadel Rice Theatre, Edmonton), the musical “Poor Relations” (Workshop, Theatre Network, Edmonton), and Courtesy of Lucklee, which was awarded the Elise Mae Beimfohr Award for Children’s Theatre (UCLA).
In recognition of her first novel, “A Nose For Death”, she received the Vancouver Mayor’s award for Emerging Artist in Literature.
Awards & Nominations
Baldy
Alberta Culture Screenplay Award
Blood Clan
Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award, Best Feature Film
Atlantic Film Festival Award in screenwriting
A Darkened Room
CBC Literary Award in radio
Weight of the World
American Medical Association Media (Freddie Award)
LEO Award
Columbus Film Festival Chris Statue
Worst Case Scenario
Leonardo Festival of Ecology and Science Grand Prix (Parma, Italy)