Noel S. Baker is a Canadian film and television screenwriter.[1] He is most noted for the 1996 film Hard Core Logo, for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996,[2] and won the prize for Best Canadian Screenplay at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival.[3]

The following year he published the book Hard Core Roadshow: A Screenwriter's Diary, his own diaries of his experiences working on the film.[4]

His other credits have included the films Platinum and American Whiskey Bar, and episodes of the television series Drop the Beat, Show Me Yours and At the Hotel.

References

  1. ↑ Jim Moodie, "Canadian films and their writers overlooked". Sudbury Star, March 14, 2000.
  2. ↑ "Over-the-edge Canadian films poised for Genie nod". Canadian Press, November 24, 1996.
  3. ↑ "McDonald film wins 2 awards". The Globe and Mail, October 22, 1996.
  4. ↑ David Weaver, "Into the heart of filmmaking: Noel Baker's diary is a compendium of the screenwriter's countless tribulations, momentary exhilarations and general disorientation". The Globe and Mail, April 12, 1997.


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