Career
Early signs of Southam"s directing ability came in 1995 when he was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series for the 1994 documentary Satie and Suzanne about Erik Satie"s relationship with the painter Suzanne Valadon, which he also wrote. The programme was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. He was a writer for the Canadian drama series Traders and was credited with four episodes, 1996-1998.
His 1997 documentary, Drowning in Dreams, was shown at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for a Genie Award.
In not the most shining moment of his career he directed the 2000 horror thriller, Island of the Dead starring Malcolm MacDowell. While continuing to make films and documentaries, Southam started directing episodic television in 2001 with two episodes of the Canadian television series Blue Murder.
He was one of the directors for the Canadian sitcom Naked Josh, 2004-2006. He also co-wrote the film.
In 2007-2008 Southam directed the Canadian television sitcom Moose television starring Adam Beach.
Recently he has directed two episodes of Heartland (2008), an episode of Flashpoint (2009), three episodes of Bones (2009-2010), one of House (2011) and two of Haven (2010). He will be back on the sets soon for further episodes of Haven, House and Bones. In July 2011 Southam directed the pilot for a new CTV comedy called Stay With Maine starring Andrea Roth.
Tim Southam is currently the chair of the National Directors Division, a standing policy committee of the Directors Guild of Canada.
Southam is married to Eda Holmes, a Canadian theatre director
