Michael Boland (cinematographer)

Michael Anthony Boland (born December 16, 1949) is a Canadian cinematographer and former professional ice hockey player.[1] He played two NHL games with the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1974–75 season and also played 41 WHA games with the Ottawa Nationals, before beginning to work as a television and documentary film camera operator.[1]

Not to be confused with Mike Boland (ice hockey, born 1954).
Mike Boland
Born (1949-12-16) December 16, 1949
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 183 lb (83 kg; 13 st 1 lb)
Position Right Wing
Shot Right
Played for Ottawa Nationals (WHA)
Philadelphia Flyers
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 1970–1978

Boland won a Primetime Emmy Award (shared with Vic Sarin) for his work on the 1992 episode "Strange Relations" of the television series Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World.[2] He and Sarin also won a Gemini Award for Best Photography in an Information/Documentary Program or Series for the same episode.[3]

In 2012 he published his memoir, Through the Lens of My Eye: Adventures of a Documentary Camerman.[4]

He was codirector with Roberto Verdecchia of "Gorilla Doctors", a 2014 episode of The Nature of Things which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.[5]

References
  1. Lance Anderson, "The life of documentary cinematographer Mike Boland". My Kawartha, December 16, 2014.
  2. "Michael Boland - Awards & Nominations". awardsandwinners.com. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  3. "Fifty-five Geminis and six special awards presented over three days". Montreal Gazette, March 8, 1993.
  4. "Take a journey with filmmaker Michael Boland". Peterborough Examiner, April 28, 2013.
  5. "Peterborough documentary cinematographer Michael Boland, and his team, nominated for Canadian Screen Award". Peterborough This Week, March 9, 2016.


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