A stylish and highly assured filmmaker, Egoyan has produced work that combines self-reflexive meditations on the nature of film and video, examinations of psycho-sexual behavior and a black, ironic sense of humor. Director Wim Wenders was so impressed with Egoyan's third feature, "Family Viewing" (1987), an irreverent study of familial breakdown, cultural alienation, sexual frustration and the disposability of the past all linked together by an omnipresence of video technology, that, when awarded the Prix Alcan for "Wings of Desire" at the 1987 Montreal New Cinema Festival, Wenders publicly
At age two, moved with his family from Egypt to Canada
1979
While at the University of Toronto, made four short films: "Howard in Particular" (1979), "After Grad with Dad" (1980), "Peep Show" (1981) and "Open House" (1982)
Formed Ego Arts Films
1984
Feature film directing debut, "Next of Kin"
1989
Helmed "Speaking Parts"; shown at the New York Film Festival
