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Crooks Harold
Co-director and writer of Surviving Progress
Harold Crooks is an author and writer/producer whose award-winning and acclaimed documentary film credits include: The Corporation; Karsh Is History; Pax Americana And The Weaponization of Space; The World Is Watching; Bhopal: The Search for Justice; and the TV series Black Coffee. He is a recipient of a Genie Award of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television; a Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival; a Leo Award for Best Screenwriter [Documentary] of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of B.C.; a National Documentary Film Award [Best Writing Category] at 1996 Hot Docs !; a Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Awards finalist; a Commonwealth Fellowship, India; and a Fund for Investigative Journalism [Washington, DC] travel grant.
Greenpeace founder and author Robert Hunter, in his review of Crooksʼ exposé of the transnational waste management industry, wrote: "even for a print junkie, the avalanche of books about the environment is too much to fully absorb. And one finds oneself scanning rather more often than is probably healthy. Some ecobooks, however, are too good to be merely scanned. Into this category falls Harold Crooks' Giants of Garbage."
Crooks also co-wrote with the artist Medrie MacPhee, Betting On Love, a drama telecast on CHUM City TVʼs "Anthology of Love Stories" series and Bravo Canada, and starring Ronica Sajnani (Water), Nick Mancuso (The Lives of The Saints), Dhirendra (Jinna and DaVinciʼs Inquest) and Michelle Nolden (Street Time).
