Douglas Koch is a Canadian cinematographer who has won honours at the Canadian Screen Awards and Canadian Music Video Awards.

Douglas Koch
NationalityCanadian
Alma materRyerson Polytechnical Institute
OccupationCinematographer

Koch is from Vancouver and studied film at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, finishing in 1983.[1] He went on to shoot music videos for artists such as Anne Murray and Sarah McLachlan, winning a cinematography award at the MuchMusic Video Awards in 1994 for "And if Venice Is Sinking".[1]

He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Cinematography for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) and Last Night (1998), as well as for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature for Last Night.[1] In 2015, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Comedy Program or Series for HBO Canada and Bell Media's episode "The Three Sisters" in the TV series Sensitive Skin.[2] He was nominated for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Theatrical Feature Cinematography for the 2018 Through Black Spruce.[3]

Filmography

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Documentary film

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Year Title Director Notes
1984 Snowscreen Robert Shoub With Robert Shoub
1987 The Sexiest Animal Stephen Withrow With Rhett Morita
1991 The Falls Kevin McMahon

Feature film

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Year Title Director Notes
1987 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Patricia Rozema
Night Friend Peter Gerretsen
1988 Martha, Ruth & Edie Deepa Mehta
Norma Bailey
Danièle J. Suissa
Dear John Catherine Lord
Turnabout Don Owen With John Herzog
1989 Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics Stephen Withrow
1990 Defy Gravity Michael Gibson
1995 When Night Is Falling Patricia Rozema
1998 Last Night Don McKellar
2002 Bollywood/Hollywood Deepa Mehta
2003 The Republic of Love
2013 The Grand Seduction Don McKelllar
2018 Through Black Spruce
2020 Funny Boy Deepa Mehta
2022 Crimes of the Future David Cronenberg
2024 Humane Caitlin Cronenberg
2024 The Shrouds David Cronenberg

Short film

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Year Title Director Notes
1991 Battle of the Bulge Arlene Hazzan Green
1993 Collateral Damage Leonard Farlinger
1999 Rusty Jeremy Hindle
2000 A Word from the Management Don McKellar Segment of Preludes
2008 The Catsitter Tim Hamilton
2015 It's Not You Don McKellar
2023 Moments Away Stephanie Morgenstern
Alone Charles Uwagbai
Meta Mom Simone Stock
Black Paris Sid Zanforlin

Television

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TV movies

Year Title Director
1987 The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe Peter Gerretsen
2002 Untitled Secret Service Project Rupert Wainwright
2004 Meltdown Jeremiah S. Chechik
2017 Perverts Anonymous: Episodes 1-3 Tim Hamilton
Perverts Anonymous: Episode 1, Disguises

TV series

Year Title Director Notes
2007 Not This But This Mark Mainguy
The Bronx Is Burning Jeremiah S. Chechik Miniseries
2008 The Middleman Episode "The Pilot Episode Sanction"
2011–2017 Michael: Every Day Don McKellar
Alison Maclean
Patricia Rozema
All 18 episodes
2013 Bodyslam Robert Budreau TV special
2014–2016 Sensitive Skin Don McKellar All 12 episodes
2015 The Second City Project Tim Hamilton
2022 Children Ruin Everything Renuka Jeyapalan
Melanie Orr
Season 1

References

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  1. ^ a b c Dillon, Mark (3 May 1999). "DOP: The versatile Doug Koch". Playback. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. ^ Playback Staff (13 January 2015). "Canadian Screen Awards '15: Craft category nominees". Playback. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. ^ "The 63rd Annual Csc Award Nominees" (PDF). Canadian Society of Cinematographers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
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