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| Popular As | John Whitcher |
| Occupation | Editor |
| Age | years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 28, 1790 () |
| Birthday | July 28 |
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John Whitcher’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
John Whitcher was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
John Whitcher is an industry veteran with a career spanning Australia, the U.K., and Canada. He's been a key creative on projects that have won over 30 major international awards including the Emmy, British Broadcast Award, Gracie, Hugo, multiple Gemini's, WorldFest Houston Remis, Cine Gold Eagles and Chris awards.
His credits as Editor include features, TV movies, feature documentaries and multiple drama-documentary series for Discovery Channel, History TV, National Geographic, CNN, CBC, BBC, PBS, ZDF and Canal +.
John was nominated for Best Editing - Documentary in the 2018 DGC Awards for Searching for Vimy's Lost Soldiers (2017), nominated for Best History Documentary Program or Series at the 2018 CSA Awards. We Were Children (2012), a searing true story of two survivors of Canada's residential school system, played at ImagineNative 2012, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and was nominated for the prestigious Japan Prize.
At the 2011 DGC Awards John was nominated for Best Picture Editing in a TV Movie or Mini-Series for Storming Juno (2010), a dramatized account of Canada's role in attacking heavily fortified Juno Beach during the D-Day landings.
Born in Australia to an outback geologist and a mining camp secretary, John studied Business-Communication at the Queensland University of Technology, double majoring in Advertising and Film. Beginning his career in advertising as a Copywriter/Director, he worked as a network Television Director before moving to the U.
K. to write and direct for BBC London and Central Television in Birmingham.A dual Canadian-Australian citizen, he's a keen photographer, passionate fly-fisherman and world traveller. His real claim to fame is surviving a six-month overland trek from London to Kathmandu to Bali aboard a puke-inducing, beige-painted, reconverted London double-decker bus appropriately called 'DRAB.
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