Biography

Canadian actor-turned-producer Damon D'Oliveira has been responsible for bringing to screen some of Canada's more innovative feature films - Poor Boy's Game, RUDE, Love Come Down, H, Proteus and Lie With Me. Under the umbrella of production companies, Conquering Lion Pictures (with partner Clement Virgo) and Flimshow Inc., D'Oliveira's films have been distributed internationally and have been selected for festivals around the world including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance & Rotterdam. D'Oliveira's first feature had its world premiere in Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Damon's recent feature Poor Boy's Game (starring Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland), premiered as a Special Presentation at the 2007 Berlinale and has been acquired to date in over 35 countries. It was also a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007, and has won best film and audience choice awards at the Atlantic Film Festival and Calgary International Film Festival. In 2005, D'Oliveira's provocative sexual romance, Lie With Me, sold internationally to over 40 countries after causing a stir at the Toronto International Film Festival and the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. He is latest project is a miniseries adaptation of The Book of Negroes, the best-selling novel by Lawrence Hill which won the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Made in collaboration with the CBC, BET and EOne on the series debuted in January 2015 to a record 1.7 million viewers in Canada and stars Aunjanue Ellis, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lou Gossett Jr., Ben Chaplin, Jane Alexander, and Lyriq Bent.
- IMDb mini biography by: Thomas Pepper