دينيس فون

Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of plays that continue to be produced internationally in numerous languages. He has received the British Theatre Award, two Chalmers awards, the Jesse Richardson Career Achievement Award, a Governor General's nomination for Skin, and the International Arts for Young Audiences Award for these. In 2007, he was made a lifetime member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada for “his outstanding contribution to Canadian Playwriting and Theatre.” Foon's screenplays have continued his exploration into the psyche of youth: Little Criminals (1995), produced as a CBC movie about an 11-year-old gang leader, won multiple national and international awards; Life, Above All (2011), is a feature that received a ten-minute standing ovation at Cannes; it was shortlisted for a 2011 best foreign language Oscar. He has won a Gemini Award, two Writers Guild of Canada Awards, two Leos, and numerous other international awards for his screenplays. Foon was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan. He has worked and resided in Vancouver, Canada since 1973, and has Canadian citizenship. Foon was born into a Ukrainian-Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, where he was raised. He attended local schools and the University of Michigan, where he studied fiction. In 1972 he won the Hopwood Award for fiction there. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, and has resided in Canada since 1973. Foon wrote the screenplay Life Above All, winner of the Prix Francois Chalais at Cannes and shortlisted for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. He wrote the screenplay for Indian Horse (2017), adapted from a 2012 novel of the same name by Richard Wagamese (Ojibwe). His A Shine of Rainbows (starring Aidan Quinn and Connie Nielsen) premiered at TIFF and played at over 30 international film festivals, winning 11 awards. He co-wrote Mina Shum’s feature Long Life (starring Sandra Oh, which premiered at TIFF and Sundance). Foon has received the Gemini Award, two WGC Awards, four Leos, and the Robert Wagner Award for his screenplays, including Little Criminals, International Emmy Nominee White Lies, Torso (Gemini, Best Movie), The Terry Fox Story, and On The Farm.