BIO
Howard (Howie) Wiseman - writer / Director/ storY editor/ Associate Professor, york university
Latest news: Story Consultant with 2024 TIFF WRITERS STUDIO, (April 2024)
https://tiff.net/press/news/tiff-announces-writers-studio-class-of-2024
Howard Wiseman on IMDB
Howard Wiseman is a Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Award-Winning writer for his 4 hour CBC Radio Miniseries adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s “Barney’s Version."
https://www.cbc.ca/books/from-page-to-stage-7-performances-inspired-by-canlit-1.4266752
Gemini-nominated TV Miniseries Writer for adapting Richler’s novel, “St. Urbain’s Horseman,” with Elliot Gould, Liane Balaban, Jacob Tierney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiumIRFR7c4 for CBC TV,
And a Gemini-nominated director (“EXHIBIT A”). https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07VCG7MFX/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2
He developed and directed the pilot for the popular U.S./Canadian TV series “Masterminds” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgz6niK7gs
and over 30 episodic TV episodes as either writer, Writer/Director on "72 Hours:True Crime
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07DHYLM14/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1
"EXHIBIT A," also as Associate Producer and Story-Editor.
“My Family Treasure” his feature comedy was produced in Moscow in which he played the role of the Russian"Sherrif."
"Midnight Train to Georgia" - a feature comedy screenplay based on his hit fringe play “The Iron Curtain.”
“Shadowman,” a Pilot Episode and Bible for a one-hour TV murder-mystery series.
Wiseman has also written many hours of Childrens' Television including DISNEY/ATLANTIS' “FLASH FORWARD” featuring Award-winning actor, Ben Foster. Wiseman co-created and served as Executive Producer on "Kidsworks" 8 hours of animation by kids (CBC, CTV, HBO Family).
Longtime coach of Telefilm's feature film "Pitch This" at the Toronto International Film festival. His teams have won the grand prize three times.
A Writing Resident at the Leighton Colony at the Banff Art Centre in 2015 and 2018, Wiseman developed his latest feature screenplay, "Museum of The Broken-Hearted. “
Wiseman's plays include “Mother Of Pearl,” “The Iron Curtain,” and the “The Year of The Flood,” featuring Gary Farmer (Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man" and Reservation Dogs").
Wiseman also studied acting with Sanford Meisner in New York.
Story Editor/Story Consultant, "My Dearest Sister," feature documentary (writer/director Kyoka Tsukamoto;
https://vimeo.com/480549999?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=7003124
Wiseman is currently a story consultant on numerous feature film and TV projects including Telefilm's Talent To Watch, and is a story consultant for Rogers and the Black Screen Office TV program.
CURRENT PROJECTS :
2024 - WINNER- BEST DOCUMENTARY- PUNTA DEL ESTE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL- URUGUAY
"Gimpel The Fool Returns to Poland," (co-writer) director of studio sequences and V.O., one-hour docudrama set in Poland.
2024 - “Untitled Full Length Performance Piece"- A revisioning of an ancient Mesopotamian Myth for theatre/dance and screens
“Easy Living/ This is The End”- TV series Pilot and Bible (2023)
Story-Editor- Kyoka Tsukamoto's feature screenplay, “I Heard a Funeral.”
Story-Editor- various Talent To Watch projects upcoming productions (2023)
2020 - Creator of the Mindful Screenwriting Workshops, meditation and Creative Screenwriting.
Howard Wiseman (MFA, University of Southern California) is an Associate Professor of Screenwriting at York University where he has taught since 2006 and a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. He has been certified as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher by Dharma Moon and Tibet House in New York City.