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sylvestre guidi

Sylvestre GuidiA top Franco-Canadian cinematographer, Sylvestre Guidi has amassed more than 20 years of documentary production experience, filming from the top of the world—on the  2005 award-sweeping series "Arctic Mission," by biologist-filmmaker Jean Lemire—to the bottom on ICE PEOPLE.  Based in Montreal, he has collaborated repeatedly with noted directors including Michka Saäl and Patricio Henriquez, and works regularly on films for the National Film Board of Canada, which air on ARTE, BBC, Discovery and other top television networks across the globe.  Guidi spent ten years living in Mexico City as a cameraman and editor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, covering South America and the Caribbean.

Guidi has earned four nominations and a 1993 win for the Gémeaux—the Canadian Academy awards for French-language television.  A graduate in film from Concordia University in Montreal, Guidi also studied television production at the Université de Québec à Montréal.  He is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese.