Keith Behrman
Directing
Biography
Keith Behrman is a Canadian film and television director and writer. He gained recognition with his debut feature film, Flower & Garnet (2002), which won the Claude Jutra Award for Best First Feature at the Canadian Screen Awards. The film was also named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list for 2002. In 2018, Behrman directed Giant Little Ones, a coming-of-age drama that received critical acclaim for its sensitive portrayal of teenage sexuality and identity. His work is characterized by its exploration of complex human relationships and emotional depth.
Known For
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Giant Little Ones
Garnet and Flower have grown up in an environment of stifled grief. Since their mother died, Ed, their father, mostly just lives without a goal. Eight-year-old Garnet struggles to comprehend the world around him, while sixteen-year-old Flower seeks love with her new boyfriend. Forced to become a real parent to Garnet, Ed buys Garnet a gun and shows, for the first time, his real affection for the boy.
Flower & Garnet
A white woman has an affair with a married African-American basketball star and challenges him for custody of their mixed-race son. Based on a true story.
Playing for Keeps
In an increasingly urban nation, Canada’s national parks are a treasured escape into extraordinary beauty and rugged wilderness. If the Group of Seven were an introduction to the landscape’s majesty, National Parks Project is the next logical chapter. Fifty-two contemporary artists from across the country, whose talents are as diverse as the parks they set out to explore, used their surroundings as a source of inspiration to blend musical and cinematic skills into collaboratively crafted vignettes. Epic in its ambition to celebrate these locales during Parks Canada’s centennial year, this omnibus film resonates with the knowledge that our unprotected land is more vulnerable than ever. Including films by Zacharius Kunuk, Peter Lynch, Sturla Gunnarsson and John Walker, and music by Sarah Harmer, Sam Roberts, Cadence Weapon and The Besnard Lakes, among many others, National Parks Project is a one-of-a-kind documentary experience.