Colin Browne is a Canadian writer, documentary filmmaker and academic.[1] He is most noted for his documentary film White Lake, which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990,[2] and his poetry collection Ground Water, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2002 Governor General's Awards.[3]
A longtime professor of film at Simon Fraser University,[1] he launched the PRAXIS workshop for aspiring screenwriters[4] and has been active in efforts to preserve and archive old and rare British Columbia films.[5]
His other films as a documentarian have included Strathyre (1979), A Visit from Captain Cook (1980), Hoppy: A Portrait of Elisabeth Hopkins (1984), The Image Before Us (1986), Father and Son (1992) and Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye (2003).[6] As a poet, he has also been a two-time nominee for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, receiving nods in 2003 for Ground Water[7] and in 2013 for The Properties,[8] and a ReLit Award nominee in 2008 for The Shovel.[9]