Egidio Coccimiglio is a Canadian film director from Sault Ste.
[1] After studying film at Ryerson University,[3] he began his career in film as a sound technician, notably receiving a Genie Award nomination at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988 for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.
[4] His other sound credits included the films Loyalties, Concrete Angels, The Top of His Head and South of Wawa.
[6] In 2003 he entered production on Imaginary Grace, which would have been his narrative feature debut, but the film was never completed or released.
[1] When Cascade premiered on Netflix in summer 2023 it premiered in the Top 10 for Canadian viewership, one of the first independent Canadian films ever to do so on that platform.