[3] For much of his career he was associated with the National Film Board of Canada, for whom he was one of the originators alongside directors Giles Walker and John N. Smith of the studio's 1980s foray into "alternative drama" docufiction filmmaking.
[4] He left the NFB in the 1990s and was briefly executive director of Film NB, the provincial filmmaking agency in New Brunswick, from March 1997 until resigning in August 1998.
[5][6][7] He then formed his own production firm, Grana Productions, for which his projects included the documentary television series Eastern Tide, and the films Geraldine's Fortune and Black Eyed Dog.
[10] He has also had a small number of acting roles,[1] most notably as Alex Rossi in Walker's docufiction trilogy The Masculine Mystique, 90 Days[11] and The Last Straw.
[12] He also appeared in The Boys of St. Vincent, in the minor role of Monsignor Forucco.