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Charles H. (Chuck) Clark, Halifax-based filmmaker, was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, on 26 December 1951. After a year at the University of New Brunswick, he settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1970 to study at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). In 1974 Clark received his Fine Arts Diploma from NSCAD and in 1975 he began working as a camera assistant for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. After several years with the CBC, Clark began free-lancing as a technical assistant in film and video production, and worked on numerous productions in the Halifax area. He also worked on a variety of government and commercial productions, including training films for the Canadian Armed Forces. He has been active with the Atlantic Filmmaker's Cooperative since that organization was founded in the early 1980s, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax). In 1980 he commenced work on two independent film projects of his own. One, “8 Frames per Second,” a film about Clark's neighbours in North End Halifax, was first screened in the 1986 Atlantic Film Festival, where it received an honourable mention. It was shown at several film festivals and workshops across Canada and was included in a European tour of Canadian independent films. His second independent project was to be a documentary about Richard Hatfield, but this project received a serious setback when much of the footage was destroyed in a fire at the Halifax branch of the National Film Board. He continued his free-lance film work and has worked on a number of independent film projects in recent years.