Career
His films include the documentaries, a film about patients at the Brockville Mental Health Centre, named best Canadian feature documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival., exploring the personal impact of the mental disorder defence in Canada., The Lifer and the Lady and Parole Dance, and the 1986 made-for-television drama Turning to Stone, set in the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario.
Early in his career, Kastner occasionally took a break from making documentary films on serious topics with lighter fare, which included co-hosting a short-lived children"s series for CTV in the early 1980s, Just Kidding, as well as doing comedy segments for the Canadian Broadcasting Company-television late-night talk show 90 Minutes Live.
A former child actor, Kastner"s first screenwriting cr came in 1983, when he co-wrote The Terry Fox Story, starring Robert Duvall.
