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Wyndham Paul Wise is aCanadian film historian, critic, editor and publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the film magazineTake One: Film & Television in Canada (1992-2006).
Born in London, England, Wyndham Wise was raised inDon Mills, a suburb ofToronto. He has a M.A. from the Graduate School of Drama,University of Toronto, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Graduate Programme in Film and Video,York University. On stage as a child with the Don Mills Players, he was the first film contributor to the monthly city listings inToronto Life magazine (1972–74).
During the mid-1970s, Wise was part of the nascent Toronto underground theatre scene, producingShop-Talk (Toronto Free Theatre, 1976),Spinning (CEAC andP.S. 1. NYC, 1977) andCon/Notes (produced byTheatre Passe Muraille at CEAC, 1977) with Richard Shoichet.[1] He was cameraman and editor on several installations by the noted Canadian artistNoel Harding, and he also produced and directed three 16-mm shorts:Garbage (1974),A Sound Film (1975) andSpinning (1976). Wise was a volunteer driver during the firstToronto Festival of Festivals (1976) and appeared in commercials, on television and in feature films, including a bit part in the Toronto-shot children's classicThe Black Stallion. In 1982, he co-produced the documentaryLiona Boyd First Lady of the Guitar forC Channel andLiona Boyd in Concert, which was broadcast onGlobal TV in 1983.
He founded and was the editor-in-chief ofTake One: Film & Television in Canada (ISSN 1192-5507,OCLC 60624126), which was published from 1992—2006.[2] Over its 14-year publishing history it grew in stature to become Canada's finest film magazine, and introduced the termToronto New Wave into the Canadian canon.
He taught film studies atAlgoma University (1985 & 1988) andYork University (1987–88), and media writing atSheridan College (1989–93). He served as the last Toronto reporter forCinema Canada magazine[3] (1988–89), launchedPoint of View magazine in 1990 for the Canadian Independent Film Caucus (now theDocumentary Organization of Canada) and edited the final issue ofIndependent Eye (1991) for the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. In 1997, he was instrumental in founding theToronto Film Critics Association and launchedCanadian Screenwriter for theWriters Guild of Canada in 1998.
In 2001, Wise editedTake One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, published by theUniversity of Toronto Press, a concise history ofCanadian cinema.[4] In 2008, Wise was hired by theCanadian Society of Cinematographers to editCSC News, which he transformed into Canadian Cinematographer in 2009. That year, his historical survey "Up from the Underground: Filmmaking in Toronto fromWinter Kept Us Warm toShivers" appeared inToronto on Film[5] published by theWilfrid Laurier Press.
He has lectured with the LIFE Institute atRyerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), is a former contributor and consultant to the Northernstars.ca website,Historica'sCanadian Encyclopedia and the author of over 400 articles, biographies, interviews and reviews. On occasion, he wrote under the pseudonym Paul Townend.
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