Michael Mazo
Canadian film director
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Michael Mazo is a film director, writer and producer whose works are mainly in the action, horror and science fiction genres, but whose work also includes a documentary about ice hockey.
Mazo co-wrote and directed the 1993 science fiction film Time Runner which starred Mark Hamill as a person from the future who escapes an alien attack by going into a wormhole and back in time. The Toronto Star panned the film ("Trashy flick is lost in space") stating, "[o]nly 10 minutes into the story, Time Runner falls apart" and that Mazo "has a great fondness for close-ups of military footwear ".
Mazo's work also includes the 1994 action film Crackerjack (director), the horror film Possession (director), and the science fiction films Empire of Ash (co-writer, director and producer) and Empire of Ash III (director and producer).
The CBC called his documentary, Lottery on Ice, "a surprisingly intimate exploration of a fourteen-year old boy and his parents, risking everything-even the family itself-all for the dream of playing in the NHL."
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121102090517/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/518479771.html?dids=518479771:518479771&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+26,+1993&author=Norman+Wilner+Special+to+The+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Trashy+flick+is+lost+in+space&pqatl=google Toronto Star. Norman Wilner. Feb 26, 1993]
- [http://www.cbc.ca/thelens/program_280306.html CBC Newsworld]
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