Craig Goodwill

Craig Goodwill is a writer/director, principally of short films and music videos.
Career
Craig Goodwill established a college newspaper called The Voice, and later was assigned as Managing Editor of George Brown College's "dialogue". He began his career working as an assistant in a number of films, including Good Will Hunting, Studio 54, Storm of the Century, Loser, Superstar, Possessed, and a number of television series. In 2001-2002, he was senior television producer for U8TV: The Lofters Canada's first reality television series for two consecutive seasons. He followed that in 2003 as a Segment/Associate Producer for the National Geographic 13-part series Crisis Zone about the efforts of (Medicine sans Frontiers) volunteers. Goodwill was also a director and producer at Much Music Canadian music television and has done a number of music videos for Universal Records. He directed/produced Teenage Angst for CBC: Nerve, the documentary-series, which won "The Japan Prize for Best Youth Show in the World". Goodwill directed Season One of Design Inc., HGTV's top-rated design show. He is also the director of HGTV's Disaster DIY, a Gemini Award winner for "Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series" for the presenter Bryan Baeumler.
Major projects
In 2014, Goodwill completed a full-length feature, a dark musical fantasy Christmas film called Patch Town, his largest singular project, which was released in 2015. The film starred well-known Canadian actors Rob Ramsay, Julian Richings and Zoie Palmer as its main cast.
Goodwill directed a documentary about restavecs, slave children in Haiti. The documentary directed by Goodwill and titled Forgotten Children: The Story of Haiti's Restavecs. shows the situation of the restavecs through the eyes of different personalities including pop singer George Nozuka, a Canadian UN peacekeeper, some Haitian youth filmmakers and activists, and former working children themselves.
Goodwill has worked with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) to set guidelines and update policies for the "Filmmakers Assistance Program". He has developed a number of other initiatives, including "Culture Creatives and Company" ccandco, a media production company which produces commercials and content for such companies as Nokia, Bank of America, Pedigree, Nike and including documentaries and web platforms for Plan Canada Free the Children.
Goodwill is the Executive Producer of Directors of Change a program sponsored by Nokia, Free the Children and IYF. The program works with youth to produce documentaries about social issues affecting youth. Crossing Borders is the most recent film, documenting Mexican youth and their struggles living on the border.
Filmography
*2001-2002: "U8TV: The Lofters" - TV series (senior producer)
*2003: "Doctors Without Borders" - 12-part TV series (associate producer)
*2007: "Disaster DIY" - Reality TV (director)
*2008: "Forgotten Children: The Story of Haiti's Restavecs" - Documentary (director)
*2008: "Teenage Angst" - Documentary series for CBC Television (director / producer)
*2014: Patch Town - dark fantasy feature film on DVD video
*2016: Compulsion aka Sadie - Movie (director / producer)

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