Stephen Zoller
Stephen Zoller (born 1952) is a Canadian film and television writer and producer.[1] He is most noted for the film Metal Messiah, for which he received a Canadian Film Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 28th Canadian Film Awards in 1977.[2]
He began his career as a partner with Tibor Takács in the independent film studio Mega-Media Productions.[3] He initially wrote Metal Messiah as a stage musical in 1975, before working with Takács to readapt it as a film.[4]
Zoller and Takács then collaborated on the feature film The Tomorrow Man (1981), also known as 984: Prisoner of the Future.[5] Their 1983 short film Snow was a Genie Award nominee for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.[6]
He later wrote other screenplays including Office Party and Windsor Protocol, and episodes of the television series Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Charlie Jade.
References
[edit]- ↑ Robert Paton, "Stephen Zoller: His quiet revolution". Cinema Canada, April 1980.
- ↑ Frank Daley, "Omens good for film awards show". Ottawa Journal, November 19, 1977.
- ↑ Robert Martin, "New TV movie is based on London work". The Globe and Mail, July 4, 1979.
- ↑ "Metal Messiah Review". canuxploitation.com. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
- ↑ Lloyd Wasser, "Tibor Takács' The Tomorrow Man". Cinema Canada, July 1981.
- ↑ Carole Corbeil, "Does anybody care about Genie shorts and documentaries?". The Globe and Mail, March 16, 1984.
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