Rick Hancox

Rick Hancox has had numerous one-man and group shows, and won many awards for his films. Born in Toronto, he began filmmaking in 1968 at the University of Prince Edward Island, under the guidance of George Semsel. Hancox has taught for many years, including twelve years at Sheridan College where many of his students have become highly regarded filmmakers, such as Philip Hoffman, Janis Cole, Holly Dale and Mike Hoolboom. He is currently teaching at Concordia University in Montreal, where he teaches 16mm film production and Canadian Independent Cinema in the Communication Studies Department. Rick Hancox has over fifteen independent films in distribution and is at work on a series of experimental films dealing with what he refers to as “temporal landscape.” For more information, see www.fringeonline.ca.