Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker
Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a
Gemini Award for editing King's TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film"
Dying at Grace, which the
Toronto International Film Festival described as “one of the best ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the
Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for
Yvan Patry’s
Hand of God. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on
Yvan Patry’s
Hot Docs Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner
Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing
Sturla Gunnarsson’s
Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary. Hector's credits include
Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated
Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning
Crimes of the Heart;
Min Sook Lee’s
Hogtown: The Politics of Policing and
Allan King’s
Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company. He edited
Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about
David Suzuki,
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the
2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the
Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and also the
Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner
Monsoon. Most recently, Hector was awarded a
Canadian Screen Award for editing the Canadian instalment of
Ridley Scott's
Life in a Day franchise
Canada in a Day. In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries
The Perfect Story,
Prey,
Sharkwater Extinction, ''
Wiebo's War, Thay - The Teacher
, War Surgeon
, Actuality
, and the award-winning El Chogui
. He served as series producer for Birth Stories
and Love is Not Enough
and co-director of the CSA Award-winning series War Story. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for Wiebo's War''. In 2018, Hector completed the movie
Sharkwater Extinction after the death of
Rob Stewart. Hector is a member of the
Directors Guild of Canada,
Canadian Cinema Editors,
British Film Editors and
American Cinema Editors and holds a Doctorate in Fine Art from the
University of Hertfordshire. ==Filmography==