Award-winning, Montreal-based cinematographer Guy Dufaux (a Genie winner for his memorable images in Denys Arcand’s Jesus of Montreal and Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Un Zoo La Nuit) is again in competition, this time for a Gemini. He is nominated in the category of best photography in a dramatic program or series for his stunning visuals in Alliance Atlantis’ four-hour, US$15-million miniseries Haven, which introduces TV viewers to U.S. journalist Ruth Gruber and her heroic struggle to bring nearly 1,000 WWII Jewish refugees to America in 1944.

Haven garnered a total of seven Gemini nods and was filmed in Picton, ON in the summer of 2000. Dufaux and his crew transformed the old Gooderham & Worts distillery into a German concentration camp, and turned parts of Toronto into Washington and Europe.

They also incorporated real concentration camp footage into the images created for the film. Starring in the gripping drama are Natasha Richardson as Gruber and noted Canadian actors Colm Feore (CBC’s upcoming Trudeau) and Henry Czerny. The miniseries has also been nominated for three Emmy Awards.

Dufaux began his career nearly 30 years ago with a string of projects for legendary Quebec director Jean Pierre Lefebvre, including Le Vieux Pays ou Rimbaud Est Mort and Les Fleurs Sauvages. He has been recognized most often for his film work, receiving six Genie nominations for projects as diverse as Nelligan, Le Polygraphe, Equinox, Moody Beach, Leolo (for which he won the Atlantic Film Festival award) and Denys Arcand’s Stardom, which opened last year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

He has also received the Canadian Film and Television Association’s Personal Achievement Award.

Projects in the U.S. include Polish Wedding and The Great Gatsby, with director Robert Markowitz for the A&E Network and Granada Entertainment.

At press time, Dufaux and his Canadian crew were wrapping 22 weeks of filming on the $55-million, eight-hour Transfilm historical miniseries Napoleon. The project was filmed in France, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary, and stars U.S. heavyweights John Malkovich and Isabella Rossellini.