Francis damberger biography

Francis Damberger is a Canadian film and television director, producer and screenwriter.^[1] He is most noted for his 1991 film Solitaire, for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay at the 13th Genie Awards,^[2] and as a producer of Passchendaele, which won the Genie for Best Picture at the 29th Genie Awards.^[3]

Damberger studied acting at the University of Alberta, where he won second prize in a local playwriting competition in 1983 for his play Rat Tails.^[4] He made the short films On the Edge, The Road to Yorkton and Age Is No Barrier before releasing Solitaire, his debut feature film, in 1991.^[5] He subsequently directed the feature films Road to Saddle River (1994)^[6] and Heart of the Sun (1998).^[7] He has also directed episodes of television series, including North of 60, Due South, Jake and the Kid, So Weird, Mentors, Tom Stone, C