Patricia Gruben

Patricia Gruben is an American born filmmaker who taught film studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada until 2018. As a director, she has made four feature films and a number of shorts. Gruben has worked in many different positions within the film industry, from being property master to directing a feature film. In 2015, Gruben was the recipient of the Teamsters 155 Woman of the Year Award given by Vancouver Women in Film and TV. Gruben was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1947. She attended Rice University where she studied anthropology. Gruben went on to attend the University of Texas where she studied film. After completing her graduate studies, she moved to Toronto in the early 1970s. Over the following years Gruben worked in different fields of the film industry, from commercials to productions designed for children. Over the course of her career, she has worked as a director, an editor, an assistant director, a cinematographer, a propmaster, an art director, a writer, a set decorator and a producer.