title: Ian Gill
text: # Ian Gill
  
  Ian Gill is an Australian-Canadian writer, documentary filmmaker, and social entrepreneur. He has been the director of Ecotrust Canada since 1994. Before that he worked as a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  
  Gill was president and founder of Ecotrust Canada from 1994 to 2010, when he was appointed founding Executive Director of Ecotrust Australia. Gill served for over five years as a director of Vancity credit union. and currently serves as a director of Vancouver Writers Fest literary festival.
  
  He writes for publications in Canada and North America including The Tyee, Alberta Views, and Policy Options.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Books
  
  * Hiking on the Edge: Canada's West Coast Trail (1995)
  * Haida Gwaii: Journeys Through the Queen Charlotte Islands (1997)
  * All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation (2009) (Shortlisted for BC Book Prize and nominated for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize)
  * No News Is Bad News: Canada's Media Collapse - and What Comes Next (2016)
  
  ### Film
  
  * Confessions of an Innocent Man (writer) (2007), winner of Gemini-award for Best Biography
  
  Other selected titles include:
  
  * Transplant Tourism (CBC) (writer) 2003
  * The Boys of Buchenwald (History Television) (writer) 2002
  * To Love, Honour and Obey (CTV) 2001
  * The Life and Times of Dr. Henry Morgentaler (CBC) 1999
  * The Dealmaker: The Life and Times of Jimmy Pattison (CBC) 1998
  * The Life and Times of David Suzuki (CBC) 1998
  * Mordecai: The Life and Times of Mordecai Richler (CBC) 1997
  * Whisky Man: Inside the Dynasty of Samuel Bronfman (CBC) 1996
  