Born

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Biography

Martin Duckworth is a Canadian documentary director and cinematographer. He raised in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood and Halifax, Nova Scotia where his father, Jack Duckworth, was secretary-general of the YMCAs. He holds BA and MA degrees in History from Yale University and the University of Toronto. He was on staff at the National Film Board from 1963 to 1970. From 1990 to 2012, he taught film at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.