Winner of a lifetime achievement award at the 1995 Telluride Film Festival, Winnipeg's Guy Maddin is Canada's most innovative, yet little-known auteur. From his first feature, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, which played for a year at New York's legendary Quad Theatre, to this year's Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, his fourth feature, Maddin has almost single-handedly re-invented the cinema of the surreal.  

Fellow Winnipegger Noam Gonick spent 15 months documenting the creation of Ice Nymphs. In candid interviews on and off set, we're allowed a rare glimpse into the self-effacing Maddin's world as he reflects on his bizarre life and career to date. Waiting For Twilight is narrated by longtime fan Tom Waits, who aptly labels Maddin "a beacon of light on the windy dirty prairies." 

John Dippong