Greenleaf
2016
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Clement Virgo (born June 1, 1966) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director who runs the production company, Conquering Lion Pictures, with producer Damon D'Oliveira. Virgo is best known for co-writing and directing an adaptation of the novel by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill , The Book of Negroes (2015), a six-part ...
Clement Virgo. Producer: Greenleaf. Clement Virgo is one of Canada's foremost film directors. In 2015 he directed and co-wrote a six part miniseries adaptation of the Lawrence Hill novel The Book of Negroes (2015) which debuted to record-breaking numbers on the CBC in Canada and on BET in the U.S. and won twelve Canadian Screen Awards and was nominated for two U.S. Critics Choice Television ...
- January 1, 1
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- Montego Bay, Jamaica
Clement Virgo is a Canadian film director and producer, known for The Book of Negroes, American Crime, The Wire, and Greenleaf. He was born in Jamaica and moved to Canada with his family in 1977.
- June 1, 1966
Oct 18, 2022 · Clement Virgo’s latest project, Brother, which is based on David Chariandy’s novel, and had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has a delicate balance of story, acting and ...
Aug 4, 2023 · Brother: Directed by Clement Virgo. With Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Kiana Madeira. Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene.
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Aug 3, 2023 · L-r: Aaron Pierre and Clement Virgo on the set of “Brother.” Your film manages to show, often through the unspoken physicality of how Francis and Michael go through the world, the impact of all the forces arrayed against them—the police, their relationship with their hardworking but often absent mother (a wonderful Marsha Stephanie Blake ...
Clement Virgo. Clement Virgo, director, producer, writer (b at Montego Bay, Jamaica 1 June 1966). Clement Virgo came with his family to Canada in 1977 and attended West Preparatory Public School in north Toronto before the family moved to Regent Park, the city's largest public-housing estate, known for its troubles with drugs and crime.
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