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EVA
WUNDERMAN
Producer, Director, Writer
Eva Wunderman has produced and directed highly innovative, award-winning documentaries since the early 1990's. Her films have been broadcast around the world and for many years she directed the Gemini Award winning television series Weird Homes.
She was the first to document one of the most important archaeological discoveries in her film THE MAYA POMPEII, a Maya excavation site at Joya de Ceren in El Salvador.
Other documentaries include THE LEGACY OF TRUK LAGOON, which was filmed on location in the South Pacific and features the American carrier-based attack in 1944 on the island of Truk, known as Japan’s Rock of Gibraltar.
1992 completed directing for film - Vancouver Filmschool
In 1997, she went to Western Samoa to executive produce and co-direct PARADISE BENT, a one-hour documentary about the Fa’afafine culture.
In 1999, Eva was co-producer and director of THE WRATH OF THE DRAGON -a short film about heroin addiction that was featured at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival.
Eva collaborated as an associate producer and writer/director with producer Mike Collier of Yaletown Entertainment, to develop WEIRD HOMES - a series of half-hour shows for television, a show that became the top rated Canadian program on the Life Network. Eva continued to direct the show for its five consecutive seasons and two series WEIRD WHEELS and WEIRD WEDDINGS followed based on its success.
The film Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear, a highly intimate view of kids involved with crystal meth, earned her a Gracie Allen Individual Achievement Award in New York in 2006. Two additional productions about the dangers of crystal meth followed- NOT A GAME aimed at the elementary school level, and SCATHED for high schools. Both are currently part of the drug education curriculum in B.C. schools.
During filming ONCE WERE ENEMIES she reunited former enemies 60 years after their battle on the island of Peleliu in Micronesia. And she reasently produced and directed CANYON WAR—a first in a series of untold stories in Canadian History.
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Documentaries / Television Series:
WORLDFEST HOUSTON 2014 – Gold Remi Award “Once Were Enemies”
WORLDFEST HOUSTON 2013 – Silver Remi Award “Aftermeth”
GOLDEN SHEAF NOMINATION 2011 – “Canyon War”
NEW YORK INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – Best Director “Canyon War” and “Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear”
WORLDFEST HOUSTON 2010 – Platinum Remi Award “Canyon War”
WORLDFEST HOUSTON 2009 – Special Jury Remi Award “Not A Game”
WORLFEST HOUSTON 2008 – Gold Award, Best Documentary “Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear”
THE CHRIS AWARDS 2007 – Columbus International Film & Video Festival-Bronze Plaque
“Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear”
THE FREDDIES 2006 – International Health and Medical Media Awards - Finalist, Behavioral Diseases.
Director - “Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear”
GRACIE ALLEN AWARD 2006 – Individual Achievement Award, Director - “Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear”
WORLDFEST HOUSTON 2002 - Silver Award, Best Documentary Series “Weird Wheels”
GOLDEN SHEAF AWARD 2000 - Best Documentary “Where Angels Weep”
GEMINI 1999 - Best Lifestyle Program
NEW YORK FESTIVAL 1998 - World Gold Medal Best Biography/Profile Series
CANADIAN LEO AWARD 1998 - Nomination Best Director “Weird Homes”
SQUAMISH FILM FESTIVAL 1999 - Best Documentary
and The People’s Choice Award “The Wrath of the Dragon”
CHICAGO FILM FESTIVAL 1999 - Curators First Choice “The Wrath of the Dragon”
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL TV COMPETITION 1998 - Silver Plaque “Paradise Bent”
CANADIAN LEO AWARD 1996 - Best Director “The Legacy of Truk Lagoon”
GOLDEN SHEAF AWARD 1995 - Nomination Best Documentary “The Legacy of Truk Lagoon”
I.T.V.A. EMERALD CITY AWARD 1993 “Making the Right Decision
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