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Beitel Garry
Garry Beitel has been making independent documentaries for the past 20 years. He works primarily in Canada, but has also made films in West Africa, South America and Mexico. His films focus primarily on the challenges of intercultural relations but also on the dynamics of personal and social change. They have been shown on Canadian and European television and have won both national and international awards.
In 1998 he directed the NFB film Asylum, which follows three refugee claimants over two years.
In 1995, Garry set up Beitel/Lazar Productions Inc. an independent documentary film production company with Montreal writer and broadcaster Barry Lazar.
Since 1988, Garry has been a faculty lecturer at McGill University, teaching courses in documentary filmmaking and cultural studies.
