A passionate and diverse filmmaker, Emmy award winning director Vic Sarin’s distinguished career includes award winning feature films, documentaries and television movies.

Vic is known for his unique storytelling ability that seamlessly weaves together the emotional and visual aspects of a film.  As a director Vic has won recognition for films such as the feature Cold Comfort which garnered five Genie (Canadian Academy Award) nominations including Best Picture. He won an Emmy for his acclaimed documentary series Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World and has thrice received Emmy nominations for his celebrated family films: In His Father’s Shoes, (a total of five Emmy nominations/ two wins including Best Picture), Sea People (four Emmy nods and a Writer’s Guild of America Award amongst others) and The Legend of Gatorface and Trial at Fortitude Bay which garnered both Emmy and Cable Ace nods.  (Full list of Awards and Nominations available on request).

Vic often continues to contribute as Director of Photography for many of the films he directs. With more than thirty years of experience as a Director of Photography, Vic has received numerous accolades including the prestigious Kodak Lifetime Achievement Award for having created some of cinema’s most moving and memorable images. His memorable work in feature films such as Margaret’s Museum, Whale Music, Bye Bye Blues, Dancing in the Dark and On My Own have earned him world renown as one of Canada’s premier cinematographers.

Vic Sarin was born in Kashmir and spent his teenage years in Australia where his father was a diplomat. It was here where his love for the cinema was born. Originally wanting to pursue a career as an actor, Vic felt his accented English could stand in his way. Knowing his son’s passion for the cinema, his father fortuitously gave Vic a 16-mm camera for his 16^th birthday and Vic found his niche. As he tells it “I fell in love with the visual side of storytelling, because movies transcend all barriers, pictures are understood in every language. I felt that as a storyteller, it was through images that I could create something unique that would touch people and move the heart or provoke a thought.”

Vic began writing his writing career by scripting award winning documentaries that he also produced and directed such as Dig Those Diggers, The Ghurkas of Nepal, Solitary Journey and The David Milgaard Story.  Vic then wrote his first feature film screenplay Partition, the story of love against all odds, set against a backdrop of turmoil and change at the end of the British reign of India in 1947.

Vic’s second feature screenplay A Shine of Rainbows further explores this theme of the finding acceptance and family where none before existed.

Vic’s films, though all unique in character and setting, share a common thread which is the theme of exploring the human need for connection, tolerance and opening the boundaries of the human heart.