MORRIE RUVINSKY
Writer and filmmaker Morrie Ruvinsky studied science at McGill University and did graduate work at UBC with the novelist Robert Harlow
(Royal Murdoch, A Gift of Echoes)
While most of his career has been based in California, he has worked internationally in places like Paris, Vancouver, and Berlin as a writer-producer of movies including Improper Channels, the famously banned The Plastic Mile, and Going to Kansas City (with wife and partner Alicia Wille.) He has written and/or produced TV series classics like Misfits of Science, Highlander, and MythQuest.
Daughter Jessica was two years old when he became the full-time custodial parent of a very little girl and earned the honorific "Single Mother." "It was for seven years a magnificent adventure and a glorious time," Ruvinsky says, "and I’m sometimes surprised we survived it.”
He taught Film Theory at McGill University where he developed the twelve-volume A Modular Introduction to Film with Donald F. Theall (The Virtual Marshall McLuhan.) He also taught hands-on film production and screenwriting at Concordia University.
Alicia Wille lived a block and a half away in Toronto for almost a year but they never saw each other until they had both moved to California and met by chance at a party. Jessica claims credit for finding her.
His much-praised debut novel, Dream Keeper, was named to the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year and he is currently finishing his much anticipated new novel, Agua, and is involved with several New Media startups.
He lives in Santa Monica with Alicia. Daughter Jessica, now a scientist and science writer, and her husband, actor Michael Bell, live nearby. Most of life is walking distance, but now and then he and Alicia are overwhelmed by the urge to drive across the country. And back again. Seven times so far.
While most of his career has been based in California, he has worked internationally in places like Paris, Vancouver, and Berlin as a writer-producer of movies including Improper Channels, the famously banned The Plastic Mile, and Going to Kansas City (with wife and partner Alicia Wille.) He has written and/or produced TV series classics like Misfits of Science, Highlander, and MythQuest.
Daughter Jessica was two years old when he became the full-time custodial parent of a very little girl and earned the honorific "Single Mother." "It was for seven years a magnificent adventure and a glorious time," Ruvinsky says, "and I’m sometimes surprised we survived it.”
He taught Film Theory at McGill University where he developed the twelve-volume A Modular Introduction to Film with Donald F. Theall (The Virtual Marshall McLuhan.) He also taught hands-on film production and screenwriting at Concordia University.
Alicia Wille lived a block and a half away in Toronto for almost a year but they never saw each other until they had both moved to California and met by chance at a party. Jessica claims credit for finding her.
His much-praised debut novel, Dream Keeper, was named to the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year and he is currently finishing his much anticipated new novel, Agua, and is involved with several New Media startups.
He lives in Santa Monica with Alicia. Daughter Jessica, now a scientist and science writer, and her husband, actor Michael Bell, live nearby. Most of life is walking distance, but now and then he and Alicia are overwhelmed by the urge to drive across the country. And back again. Seven times so far.
Morrie
Alicia
Michael and Jessica
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