D.J. Turner

A film historian, archivist, and film restorationist before getting involved in production, D.J. Turner was born in England and moved to Canada in 1959. After running university film societies, managing a repertory cinema in Montreal and then starting an international film festival in Ottawa in 1971, he joined the National Archives of Canada where he remained until 2011. He supervised the restoration of many films, most notably Back to God's Country, Something New, Carry on Sergeant! and at UCLA, in collaboration with Bob Gitt, Edgar G. Ulmer's Damaged Lives. In 1987, he published Canadian Feature Film Index 1913-1985 - complete credits of 1,222 films - and has written for Cinema Canada, Journal of the University Film Association, 24 Images, Griffithiana, Journal of Film Preservation (formerly FIAF Bulletin), The Archivist, and Film History. He wrote the chapter on From Nine to Nine in The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer (The Scarecrow Press, 2009). Almost Paradise is his first screen credit.