David Ridgen

David Ridgen grew up in Arnprior, Ontario. He attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, graduating in 1991 with a BAH in Film Studies. He enrolled in Education at McGill and graduated in 1993 with a degree in Elementary Education. He moved to the Arctic with his wife Katherine for two years and taught grade eight in two small Inuit communities. Upon returning to the south, the production of “Memento” began. Ridgen was given five thousand feet of film stock by Douglas Wilkinson (a Kin…