Donald Shebib
Biography
Donald Everett Shebib was a Canadian film and television director, central to the development of English Canadian cinema. He made influential documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada and CBC Television in the 1960s, before directing films like Goin' Down the Road (1970) and Between Friends (1973). Frustrated with Canada's film funding process, he shifted focus to television after a string of box office disappointments.