Oscar-winning filmmaker John Zaritsky passes away – Instances of India

Veteran filmmaker John Zaritsky, well-known for profitable an Oscar in 1983 for greatest documentary function for ‘Simply One other Lacking Child’, has handed away.

As per report, Zaritsky handed away on March 30 attributable to coronary heart failure on the Vancouver Common hospital, Canada. He was 79.

Throughout a profession that spanned 40 years, Zaritsky additionally directed a trilogy of documentaries on thalidomide, the infamous drug launched in Europe within the late Nineteen Fifties. He additionally made extra light-hearted documentaries, which included Ski Bums, shot in certainly one of his favorite locales.

Zaritsky’s work has been broadcast in 35 nations and screened at greater than 40 movie festivals world wide, together with Sundance, and Toronto.