Canadian actor-turned-producer Damon D'Oliveira has been instrumental in bringing some of Canada's most innovative feature films to the big screen, including Poor Boy's Game, RUDE, Love Come Down, H, Proteus, and Lie With Me.
Under the umbrella of his production companies, Conquering Lion Pictures, founded with partner Clement Virgo, and Flimshow Inc., D'Oliveira's films have been distributed internationally and have been selected for numerous prestigious film festivals worldwide, including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance, and Rotterdam.
D'Oliveira's first feature film premiered in the Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
His recent feature, Poor Boy's Game, starring Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland, had its world premiere as a Special Presentation at the 2007 Berlinale and has been acquired in over 35 countries to date. It also received a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007 and won best film and audience choice awards at the Atlantic Film Festival and Calgary International Film Festival.
In 2005, D'Oliveira's provocative sexual romance, Lie With Me, generated significant buzz at the Toronto International Film Festival and the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, selling internationally to over 40 countries.
D'Oliveira's latest project is a miniseries adaptation of The Book of Negroes, the best-selling novel by Lawrence Hill, which won the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Made in collaboration with the CBC, BET, and EOne, the series premiered in January 2015 to a record 1.7 million viewers in Canada and stars Aunjanue Ellis, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lou Gossett Jr., Ben Chaplin, Jane Alexander, and Lyriq Bent.
