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1 January 1953(Hungary)
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Biography
Introduction
George Mihalka (born 1953) is a Hungarian-born Canadian filmmaker. He is best known for his slasher film My Bloody Valentine which was remade in 2009.
Career
In Canada since 1963, George Mihalka studied film at Concordia University in Montreal. In 1981, he directed My Bloody Valentine, a low-budget ‘slasher’ for Paramount that was a modest box office hit. He has since directed in Quebec, Europe and the U.S., moving with ease from French to English, comedy to drama, theatrical features to episodic television. His 1993 satirical feature, La Florida, about Quebec snowbirds, was a huge hit in that province and the Golden Reel Award winner for the highest-grossing Canadian film of the year.
Selected filmography
- My Bloody Valentine (1981)
- Scandale (1982)
- The Blue Man (1985)
- La Florida (1992)
- Bullet to Beijing (1995)
- Deceptions II: Edge of Deception (1995)
- L'Homme idéal (1996)
- Windsor Protocol (1996)
- Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage (2010)
- 24 Hour Rental (2014)