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Colin Low Award
The Colin Low Award is an annual Canadian film award, presented to honour the best Canadian documentary film screened at that year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival. The award frequently, but not always, presents an honorable mention An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An awa ... in addition to the overall winner. The award is named in honour of influential Canadian documentary filmmaker Colin Low. Winners References {{reflist External linksDOXA Documentary Film Festival Canadian documentary film awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
The DOXA Documentary Film Festival is a documentary film festival based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is held annually held for 10 days in May, and is presented by The Documentary Media Society, a non-profit organization. The festival was staged for the first time in 2000.Marke Andrews, "DOXA festival screens 50 films". ''Vancouver Sun'', May 11, 2000. Originally intended as a once-only event, by the time of its launch the organizers had decided to organize a permanent biennial festival; following the second festival in 2002, it became an annual event thereafter.Katherine Monk, "The highs and lows of recording reality". ''Vancouver Sun The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Published s ...'', May 6, 2003. Awards DOXA award winners are given on the basis of three major c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Story
Brett Story is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 film '' The Prison in Twelve Landscapes''. The film was awarded a $5,000 Special Jury Citation in the Best Canadian Feature Documentary category at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, was the winner of the Colin Low Award for best Canadian documentary at the 2016 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, won the award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2016, and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. Her 2017 short documentary film ''CamperForce'' was adapted from Jessica Bruder's book ''Nomadland'', and influenced Chloé Zhao's 2020 film adaptation. She followed up in 2019 with ''The Hottest August''. In 2024, Story co-directed ''Union'' alongside Stephen T. Maing exploring the Amazon Labor Union. She is an assistant professor in film studies at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Suns (film)
''Dark Suns'' (french: Soleils noirs) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Julien Élie and released in 2018.Jean-Baptiste Hervé"Soleils noirs aux RIDM : Des restes humains" ''Voir'', November 9, 2018. The film examines the epidemic of murder as consequence of the illegal drug trade in Mexico. It centres on "the stories of disappeared women" and "the violence against journalists, union leaders, social rights activists, and priests", primarily through the personal testimonies of surviving friends, colleagues and family members of murder victims.Jérôme Delgado"«Soleils noirs»: noirceur et rage de vivre" ''Le Devoir'', September 7, 2019. The film premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival in November 2018, and received a commercial run in 2019 alongside other film festival screenings. Critical response In a review for ''Film Inquiry'', the film was described as "remarkably constructed despite the non-linear storytelling." The reviewer added, "Dark Suns i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasha Hubbard
Tasha Hubbard is a Canadian First Nations/Cree filmmaker and educator based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Hubbard's credits include three National Film Board of Canada documentaries exploring Indigenous rights in Canada: ''Two Worlds Colliding'', a 2004 Canada Award-winning short film about the Saskatoon freezing deaths, ''Birth of a Family'', a 2017 feature-length documentary about four siblings separated during Canada's Sixties Scoop, and '' nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up'', a 2019 Hot Docs and DOXA Documentary award-winning documentary which examines the death of Colten Boushie, a young Cree man, and the subsequent trial and acquittal of the man who shot him."‘We Will Stand Up,’ ‘Hope Frozen’ Take Top Prizes at Hot D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Will Stand Up
In Modern English, ''we'' is a plural, first-person pronoun. Morphology In Standard Modern English, ''we'' has six distinct shapes for five word forms: * ''we'': the nominative (subjective) form * ''us'' and ': the accusative (objective; also called the 'oblique'.) form * ''our:'' the dependent genitive (possessive) form *''ours:'' the independent genitive (possessive) form * ''ourselves'': the reflexive form There is also a distinct determiner ''we'' as in ''we humans aren't perfect'', which some people consider to be just an extended use of the pronoun. History ''We'' has been part of English since Old English, having come from Proto-Germanic *''wejes'', from PIE *''we''-. Similarly, ''us'' was used in Old English as the accusative and dative plural of ''we'', from PIE *''nes''-. The following table shows the old English first-person plural and dual pronouns: By late Middle English the dual form was lost and the dative and accusative had merged. The ''ours'' genitive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Plouffe (filmmaker)
Simon Plouffe (born June 11, 1956) is a French Canadian mathematician who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP algorithm) which permits the computation of the ''n''th binary digit of π, in 1995. His other 2022 formula allows extracting the ''n''th digit of in decimal. He was born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec. He co-authored ''The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences'', made into the website On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences dedicated to integer sequences later in 1995. In 1975, Plouffe broke the world record for memorizing digits of π by reciting 4096 digits, a record which stood until 1977. See also *Fabrice Bellard, who discovered in 1997 a faster formula to compute pi. *PiHex PiHex was a distributed computing project organized by Colin Percival to calculate specific bits of . 1,246 contributors used idle time slices on almost two thousand computers to make its calculations. The software used for the project made use of ... Notes External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Those Who Come, Will Hear
''Those Who Come, Will Hear'' (french: Ceux qui viendront, l'entendront) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Simon Plouffe and released in 2018. A meditation on the importance of language in the maintenance of Indigenous Canadian culture and tradition, the film documents the day-to-day life of various First Nations and Inuit communities in Quebec where indigenous languages are spoken, sometimes fluently and sometimes in code switching to English or French."Preview: Virtually Absurd and Those Who Come, Will Hear at DOXA" ''SAD Magazine'', May 1, 2018. The film premiered at the 2018 |
Laura Bari
Laura Bari is an Argentinian born and Montréal based filmmmaker. She studied pedagogy at Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in psychopathology of the expression. Her debut feature film, ''Antoine'' (2008), is an-award winning documentary about a 5-year old blind boy living in Montréal, Québec, Canada. ''Antoine'' is a daring, poetic, and playful docufiction that intimately explores the life of a brilliant and unique blind boy who is fully integrated into the regular school system. The film is a homage to human resilience, optimism, and creativity. ''Antoine'' was screened in over 30 international film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, Hot Docs in Canada, Dok Leipzig in Germany, Sheffield Doc/Fest in England, Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina and IDFA in Holland, winning multiple awards. ''Ariel'' (2013), Bari's second opus, is a feature documentary about a double amputee who sets out to rebuild his broken identity. Her la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primas (film)
''Primas'' is a 95-minute 2017 Canadian documentary film directed by Laura Bari. It is a coming-of-age portrait of two Argentine teenagers who, in the wake of odious crimes that interrupted their childhood, free themselves from the shadows of the past. First in Argentina, then during an initiatory trip to Canada, the two girls, Rocío and Aldana, grow up, expressing through their bodies what their imagination reveals, their unique perspective and their unwavering resistance. ''Primas'' had its international premiere at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tic ... and was also selected at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina and at the !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, winning the international compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Jacob (filmmaker0
François Jacob (17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013) was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff. Early years Jacob was born the only child of Simon, a merchant, and Thérèse (Franck) Jacob, in Nancy, France. An inquisitive child, he learned to read at a young age. Albert Franck, Jacob's maternal grandfather, a four-star general, was Jacob's childhood role model. At seven he entered the Lycée Carnot, where he was schooled for the next ten years; in his autobiography, he describes his impression of it: "a cage". He was antagonized by rightist youth at the Lycée Carnot around 1934. He describes his father as a "conformist in religion", while his mother and other family members important in his childhood were secular Jews; shortly after his bar mitzvah, he became an atheist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Moon Of Nickel And Ice
''A Moon of Nickel and Ice'' (french: Sur la lune de nickel) is a 2017 Canadian documentary film, directed by François Jacob."Hot Docs 2017: White Walls Say Nothing, A Moon of Nickel and Ice, This Cold Life, Vancouver: No Fixed Address" '' UrbanToronto'', May 2, 2017. The film profiles history and culture of the isolated n mining city of Norilsk. Awards< ...
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Julia Ivanova (filmmaker)
Julia Ivanova is a Russian-born Canadian documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is most noted for her films '' Family Portrait in Black and White'', which won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the 2011 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and was a shortlisted Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012, and '' Limit Is the Sky'', which won the Colin Low Award at the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival The DOXA Documentary Film Festival is a documentary film festival based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is held annually held for 10 days in May, and is presented by The Documentary Media Society, a non-profit organization. The festiva .... She was the subject of a special retrospective program at Hot Docs in 2019.Norman Wilner"Hot Docs announces retrospectives, country spotlight for 2019 festival" '' Now'', January 23, 2019. Filmography *''From Russia, for Love'' - 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
