Peter Mishara
Peter Mishara (born May 26, 1976) is an American-Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted as co-director with Omar Majeed of the 2024 documentary film Disco's Revenge.[1] The film was a nominee for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Directors Guild of Canada awards,[2] and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025.[3]
Born and raised in New York City,[4] he was educated at Temple University and the University of Southern California before moving to Toronto in 2010 after marrying Canadian film producer Christina Piovesan.
In 2012 he received a grant from the Harold Greenberg Fund and The Movie Network toward the production of his first short film,[5] which was released in 2014 as Sprnva.
Mishara and Majeed collaborated on the 2018 documentary web series The Artists: The Pioneers Behind the Pixels, for which they won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Web Series, Non-Fiction at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.[6]
In 2021 Mishara received a grant from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival toward the production of a forthcoming documentary about underground hip-hop musician Divine Styler.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Matthew Simpson, "'DISCO'S REVENGE' Gets the Last Laugh". Exclaim!, February 11, 2025.
- ^ Connie Thiessen, "Sweet Angel Baby leads DGC Awards’ film nominations". Broadcast Dialogue, September 20, 2024.
- ^ Pat Mullen, "The Tragically Hip, Okurimono Lead Canadian Screen Award Documentary Nominees". Point of View, March 26, 2025.
- ^ David Friend, "Doc filmmakers on how a dark chapter in music history led to 'Disco's Revenge'". Pique Newsmagazine, January 7, 2025.
- ^ Danielle Ng See Quan, "Three filmmaker teams to receive $20,000 from Short Film Program". Playback, May 9, 2012.
- ^ Connie Thiessen, "Canadian Screen Awards recognize Digital Storytelling". Broadcast Dialogue, March 29, 2019.
- ^ Liza Sardi, "In brief: Cineflix partners with L.A. prodco on docuseries". Playback, November 8, 2021.
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