For over 20 years, Peter Wintonick has worked in just about every aspect of movie-making. He’s been a producer, director, writer and editor on feature dramas, theatrical documentaries, educational films, television programs and Internet sites.

Wintonick is most noted for co-producing and co-directing Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. The most successful documentary in Canadian history, it has played theatrically in 200 cities around the world and won 22 awards. His Cinéma Verité: Defining the Moment screened at Encounters 2000 and Life Without Death, which he Executive Produced, screened at Encounters 2001.

He is the founder of the Virtual Film Festival, a global website for independent film, has sat on numerous juries and panels of Festivals internationally, and advises and consults many filmmakers and projects.

Peter Wintonick is a guest of the Encounters/Sithengi Documentary Co-production Forum.