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Daniel Sekulich is an award-winning Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker.

He has worked throughout the world, from Vietnam to Russia, from Bosnia to the Arctic. He is the author of the books Terror On The Seas and Ocean Titans, director of the documentaries Borderline, Aftermath: The Remnants of War and Deadly Inheritance, and has worked on the television series Ice Road Truckers, Cold Water Cowboys and Greatest Tank Battles.

Writer

Sekulich’s first book was Ocean Titans: Journeys in Search of the Soul of a Ship (2006 in Canada), in which he delved into the world of merchant shipping to understand the ageless appeal of ships and the sea and attempt to answer the question: Does a ship have a soul? https://www.abebooks.com/Ocean-Titans-Sekulich-Daniel-Penguin-Books/899628156/bd Ocean Titans was an honourable mention for the 2007 Keith Matthews Award for the Best Book http://www.cnrs-scrn.org/books_and_awards/awards_e.html,and also released in the United States by The Lyons Press in 2007. His second book, Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern Day Pirates ((2009) looked into the world of high seas piracy, a multinational, multi-billion-dollar enterprise controlled by organized crime and local warlords.https://www.amazon.ca/Terror-Seas-Tales-Modern-Day-Pirates/dp/0312375824 It became a bestseller http://www.macleans.ca/authors/brian-bethune/bestsellers-32/,and was released in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Italy and the Middle East.http://transatlanticagency.com/clients/authors/daniel-sekulich/

Filmmaker

Sekulich’s first documentary was Deadly Inheritance (1997), a look at the human impact of genetic testing. It followed a woman undergoing genetic testing for Huntingdon’s Disease, a hereditary condition.http://playbackonline.ca/1997/11/03/19900-19971103/

Aftermath: The Remnants of War (2001), a feature-length documentary about the painful legacy of war, was his second film. Filmed on location in Russia, France, Bosnia and Vietnam, the documentary features personal accounts of individuals involved in the cleanup of war. The film garnered multiple awards at film festivals around the world.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath:_The_Remnants_of_War

With his next film, Borderline (2012), Sekulich explored the experiences of ordinary people who live and work along the Canada-U.S. border, including fishermen, shop owners, truckers, Native leaders, immigrants, border officials and former RCMP officials, who describe how their lies have changed post-9/11. (http://www.eyeoncanada.ca/television/details/borderline