BIO
Howard (Howie) Wiseman - writer / Director/ storY editor/ Associate Professor, york university
August, 2024 - Writing Workshops to INCOMING CFC (Canadian FilM Centre COHORT)
Writers, Directors, & Editors
April, 2024
Story Consultant with 2024 TIFF WRITERS STUDIO, (April 2024)
https://tiff.net/press/news/tiff-announces-writers-studio-class-of-2024
Howard (Howie) Wiseman https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936468/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Wiseman is a Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Award-Winning writer for his 4 hour CBC Radio Miniseries adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s “Barney’s Version."
https://www.cbc.ca/books/from-page-to-stage-7-performances-inspired-by-canlit-1.4266752
Gemini-nominated TV Miniseries Writer for adapting Richler’s novel, “St. Urbain’s Horseman,” with Elliot Gould, Liane Balaban, Jacob Tierney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiumIRFR7c4 for CBC TV,
And a Gemini-nominated director (“EXHIBIT A”). https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07VCG7MFX/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2
He developed and directed the pilot for the popular U.S./Canadian TV series “Masterminds” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgz6niK7gs
and over 30 episodic TV episodes as either writer, Writer/Director on "72 Hours:True Crime
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07DHYLM14/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1
"EXHIBIT A," also as Associate Producer and Story-Editor.
“My Family Treasure” his feature comedy was produced in Moscow in which he played the role of the Russian"Sherrif."
"Midnight Train to Georgia" - a feature comedy screenplay based on his hit fringe play “The Iron Curtain.”
“Shadowman,” a Pilot Episode and Bible for a one-hour TV murder-mystery series.
Story Editor: "My Dearest Sister," feature documentary (writer/director Kyoka Tsukamoto;
Longtime coach of Telefilm's feature film "Pitch This" at the Toronto International Film festival. His teams have won the grand prize three times. He co-created and served as Executive Producer on "Kidsworks" 8 hours of animation by kids (CBC, CTV, HBO Family).
Wiseman has also written many hours of Childrens' Television including DISNEY/ATLANTIS' “FLASH FORWARD” featuring Award-winning actor, Ben Foster.
A Writing Resident at the Leighton Colony at the Banff Art Centre in 2015 and 2018, Wiseman developed his latest feature screenplay, "Museum of The Broken-Hearted. “
Wiseman's plays include “Mother Of Pearl,” “The Iron Curtain,” and the “The Year of The Flood,” (recent staged reading at 918 Bathurst Street Cultural Centre, Dec. 2025) featuring Alon Nashman, Michael Lawrenchuk, James Dallas Smith. Diane Flacks, Ron Lea.
Wiseman also studied acting with Sanford Meisner in New York.
Story Editor/Story Consultant, Story-Editor- Kyoka Tsukamoto's feature screenplay, “I Heard a Funeral.”
Wiseman is currently a story consultant on numerous feature film and TV projects including several Telefilm's Talent To Watch projects, Sodec and Canada Council supported projects, and is a story consultant for Rogers/ Black Screen Office TV program.
CURRENT PROJECTS :
"Gimpel The Fool Returns to Poland," (co-writer) director of studio sequences and V.O., one-hour docudrama set in Poland.
WINNER- BEST DOCUMENTARY- PUNTA DEL ESTE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL- URUGUAY (FEB. 2024)
WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY - MUMBAI FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE AND FILM (2025)
Premiered in Nashville, Tennessee (Oct. 2023), Buenos Aires Arts and Spiritual Films Competition, (July 2024) (Alliance Francaise), Northern India Film Festival (Oct. 27 2024), London Film Market, UK, (Nov.2, 2024), Chutzpah Festival and Vancouver Jewish Film Festival special presentation (Nov. 4, 2024)
2024 - “Untitled Full Length Performance Piece"- A revisioning of an ancient Mesopotamian Myth for theatre/dance and screens
“Easy Living/ Senior Moment/ Elder Care”- TV comedy series Pilot and Bible (2023)
Story-Editor- various Talent To Watch projects upcoming productions (2023/24)
2020 (ongoing) - Creator of the Mindful Screenwriting Workshops, meditation and Creative Screenwriting.
Howard Wiseman (MFA, University of Southern California) is an Associate Professor of Screenwriting at York University where he has taught since 2006 and a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. He has been certified as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher by Dharma Moon and Tibet House in New York City.