Ron Mann: Cinema in Motion!

The prolific documentary film director created meticulously detailed and fascinatingly spirited film biographies

Ron Mann (born 13 June 1958 in Toronto) is one of Canada's most important documentary filmmakers. He began shooting Super 8 mm films in the 1970s and produced his first 16 mm film, Flak, in 1975, influenced by Robert Kramer's Ice, John Cassavetes' Shadows, Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert and Norman Mailer's Maidstone. He established his international reputation with a series of award-winning cinema documentaries, including Imagine the Sound (1981), Poetry in Motion (1982), Comic Book Confidential (1988), ‘Twist’ (1992) and ‘Grass’ (1999) – all films that are as spirited as they are passionate, as respectful as they are fact-filled, addressing important pop-cultural themes, personalities and social trends and condensing them into visually and cinematically impressive, entertaining and empathetic works. ‘Ron Mann is ... one of the most cinematic and entertaining documentary filmmakers this medium has ever produced.’ (Ain't It Cool News) ‘Every film was my last film, I got into debt and made another film to pay off my debts. So I had to keep going.’ (Ron Mann) In 2002, Ron Mann founded FILMS WE LIKE, a distribution company for documentary, independent and international films that is important far beyond Canada.

He established his international reputation with a series of award-winning cinema documentaries, including Imagine the Sound (1981), Poetry in Motion (1982), Comic Book Confidential (1988), ‘Twist’ (1992) and ‘Grass’ (1999) – all films that are as spirited as they are passionate, as respectful as they are fact-filled, addressing important pop-cultural themes, personalities and social trends and condensing them into visually and cinematically impressive, entertaining and empathetic works.

‘Ron Mann is ... one of the most cinematic and entertaining documentary filmmakers this medium has ever produced.’ (Ain't It Cool News)

‘Every film was my last film, I got into debt and made another film to pay off my debts. So I had to keep going.’ (Ron Mann)

In 2002, Ron Mann founded FILMS WE LIKE, a distribution company for documentary, independent and international films that is important far beyond Canada.

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