Biography

John Whitcher is an industry veteran with a career spanning Australia, the U.K., and Canada. He's been a key creative on projects that have won over 30 major international awards including the Emmy, British Broadcast Award, Gracie, Hugo, multiple Gemini's, WorldFest Houston Remis, Cine Gold Eagles and Chris awards. His credits as Editor include features, TV movies, feature documentaries and multiple drama-documentary series for Discovery Channel, History TV, National Geographic, CNN, CBC, BBC, PBS, ZDF and Canal +.

John was nominated for Best Editing - Documentary in the 2018 DGC Awards for Searching for Vimy's Lost Soldiers (2017), nominated for Best History Documentary Program or Series at the 2018 CSA Awards. We Were Children (2012), a searing true story of two survivors of Canada's residential school system, played at ImagineNative 2012, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and was nominated for the prestigious Japan Prize. At the 2011 DGC Awards John was nominated for Best Picture Editing in a TV Movie or Mini-Series for Storming Juno (2010), a dramatized account of Canada's role in attacking heavily fortified Juno Beach during the D-Day landings.

Born in Australia to an outback geologist and a mining camp secretary, John studied Business-Communication at the Queensland University of Technology, double majoring in Advertising and Film. Beginning his career in advertising as a Copywriter/Director, he worked as a network Television Director before moving to the U.K. to write and direct for BBC London and Central Television in Birmingham.

A dual Canadian-Australian citizen, he's a keen photographer, passionate fly-fisherman and world traveller. His real claim to fame is surviving a six-month overland trek from London to Kathmandu to Bali aboard a puke-inducing, beige-painted, reconverted London double-decker bus appropriately called 'DRAB.'
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