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Nigel Moore Award For Youth Programming
The Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming is an annual Canadian film award, presented to honour the best documentary film of interest to youth audiences 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 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 award may be d ... in addition to the overall winner. Winners References {{DOXA 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, and is the larg ...'', May 6, 2003. Awards DOXA award winners are given on the basis of three major c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Elvebakk
Kenneth Elvebakk (born October 11, 1966) is a Norwegian documentary film director. He has won several international awards for his documentary films. Biography Elvebakk was born in Hemnesberget. He was educated at the University of Oslo, Norwegian School of Management and Oslo Film and Television Academy. He has worked several years for The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) - both radio and TV. ''Ballet Boys'' had theatrical releases in several countries including The UK (London 9 September 2014), France, Norway, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. ''Ballet Boys'' has achieved great success and sold to many countries. His latest film ''Hello World'' premiered at the film festival Oslo Pix on 31 May 2021 and won the audience award for best film and had its international festival premiere at Cinekid in the section "Best Children's Film". Filmography *2021 – ''Hello World'' *2014 – ''Ballet Boys'' *2013 – ''Queer Muslims'' (radio) *2013 – ''5 films for NIF'' *2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim O'Bomsawin
Kim O’Bomsawin is a writer, film director, and a human rights activist specifically for Indigenous women in Canada and the U.S. O'Bomsawin is of Abenaki origin, which is a First Nation in Quebec, Canada. She is considered a leading indigenous filmmaker. Biography She graduated with a master's degree in sociology and later pursued a career in documentary filmmaking. O'Bomsawin has co-written on the docu-series ''Skindigenous'' and has written and directed ''La ligne rouge'' in 2014, ''Kirano'' in 2015, '' Quiet Killing (Ce silence qui tue)'' in 2017, ''Du Teweikan à l’électro'' in 2017 and '' Call Me Human (Je m'appelle humain)'' in 2020. Film career '' Skindigenous'' aired in Canada in 2018. The docu-series conveys that tattoos are an ancient art and not relegated to one continent or one set group of people. The producers travel around the world to seek out and learn how ancient tribal heritage is carried into today as part of a tattoo culture. Each episode covers a pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Are Sacred
In Modern English, ''they'' is a third-person pronoun relating to a grammatical subject. Morphology In Standard Modern English, ''they'' has five distinct word forms: * ''they'': the nominative (subjective) form * ''them'': the accusative (objective, called the 'oblique'.) and a non-standard determinative form. * ''their:'' the dependent genitive (possessive) form * ''theirs'': independent genitive form * ''themselves'': prototypical reflexive form * ''themself'': derivative reflexive form (nonstandard; now chiefly used instead of "himself or herself" as a reflexive epicenity for ''they'' in pronominal reference to a singular referent) History Old English had a single third-person pronoun , which had both singular and plural forms, and ''they'' wasn't among them. In or about the start of the 13th century, ''they'' was imported from a Scandinavian source (Old Norse , Old Danish, Old Swedish , ), in which it was a masculine plural demonstrative pronoun. It comes from P ... [...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 Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singing Back The Buffalo
''Singing Back the Buffalo'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tasha Hubbard and released in 2024.Randall King"Giving a voice to the North American buffalo: New documentary tells overdue story of bison ‘genocide’" ''Winnipeg Free Press'', September 14, 2024. The film profiles indigenous efforts to restore the buffalo to the North American plains ecosystem after the animals were driven to near extinction.Andrew Parker"Hot Docs 2024 Review: Singing Back the Buffalo" '' TheGATE.ca'', April 26, 2024. The film follows the path of the buffalo during the spring, summer and fall of 2022, across the Northern Plains of Canada and the United States. Production In 2016, Hubbard was invited to film a historic transfer of buffalo, which were returned from Elk Island National Park to their original territory on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. However, she put the project on pause following the controversial death of Colten Boushie, and turned her attention to making '' Nîp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Bainbridge
Catherine Bainbridge is a Canadian director, writer, and producer. She co-founded Rezolution Pictures, a Montreal-based film and television production company focusing primarily on Canadian Aboriginal productions, with director/writer/producer Ernest Webb in 2001. Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana wrote and directed '' Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World'' to highlight the role of Indigenous artists in American music history. With Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond she codirected the award-winning 2009 documentary ''Reel Injun ''Reel Injun'' is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmakers Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film. ''Reel Injun'' is illustrated with excerpts from cla ...'', about the portrayal of Native Americans in movies, and the 2024 documentary '' Red Fever'', about cultural appropriation and the Western world's pop culture fascination with the stereotypical imagery of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Diamond (filmmaker)
Neil Diamond is a Cree-Canadians, Canadian filmmaker born and raised in Waskaganish, Quebec. Working with Rezolution Pictures, Diamond has directed the documentary films ''Reel Injun'', ''The Last Explorer'', ''One More River'', ''Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec'' and ''Cree Spoken Here'', along with three seasons of ''DAB IYIYUU'', a series for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network about Cree Elder (administrative title), elders. In the 2008 docudrama ''The Last Explorer'', Diamond explored the story of his great-uncle George Elson, a Cree guide who helped to map Labrador as part of an ill-fated 1903 expedition with Leonidas Hubbard and Dillon Wallace, and a return voyage in 1905 with Hubbard's widow Mina Benson Hubbard, Mina Hubbard. As of April 2011, Diamond is developing a project with Inuit, Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk about the 18th-century conflict between Cree and Inuit, which lasted almost a century. He codirected, with Catherine Bainbridge, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Fever
''Red Fever'' is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Neil Diamond and Catherine Bainbridge. The film explores mainstream Western culture's fascination with, and tendency to appropriate, indigenous culture without fully understanding it.John Hazelton"Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge talk 2024 Hot Docs world premiere ‘Red Fever’" ''Screen Daily'', April 27, 2024. The film premiered at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. It was subsequently also screened at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming. It entered commercial release in June 2024. It won the Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent award at the 2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival. Critical response In ''Screen International ''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company which also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisa Kovalenko
Alisa Kovalenko (born September 24, 1987) is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker and soldier. Her films have focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine both during the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. She is known for films such as '' We Will Not Fade Away'' (2023) and ''Alisa in Warland'' (2015). Early life and education Alisa Kovalenko was born in Zaporizhia, Ukraine in 1987. In Kyiv, she studied documentary filmmaking at the Karpenko-Karyi University and then went on to study at the Wajda Film School in Warsaw, Poland. Career In 2014, while still a film student, she made her first film, ''Sestra Zo'' about a former soccer player. In 2015, her first feature-length documentary, ''Alisa in Warland,'' premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The footage came about when Kovalenko traveled to the front line of the war in Donbas during Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. It was co-directed by Liubov Dura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Will Not Fade Away
''We Will Not Fade Away'' is a 2023 Ukrainian documentary film written and directed by Alisa Kovalenko. The film was made with a children and teenager centric theme as it reflects the lives of youngsters who aspire to achieve their life goals amid uncertain chaotic circumstances which threaten to demolish their dreams and hopes. The film premiered in the Generation 14plus section at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival on 19 February 2023. The film also premiered in the creative documentaries section at the 2023 Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights. Synopsis The documentary focuses on the plight of the Ukrainians and it has been portrayed through the lives of five teenagers namely Andriy, Ruslan, Ilya, Lisa and Lera who are living in the conflict-ridden Donbas region of Ukraine. The documentary dates back to 2019 where bombings can be heard in the background. However, things take swift turnaround as the teenagers receive a golden opportunity to em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an American documentary filmmaker, best known for her documentary, '' Heroin(e)'' for which she received Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject nomination with husband Kerrin Sheldon at the 90th Academy Awards. Her production company is Requisite Media. Filmography * 2023: '' King Coal'' (documentary) * 2019: ''Tutwiler'' (documentary) * 2018: '' Recovery Boys'' (Documentary) * 2017: ''Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution'' (camera operator) * 2017: ''11/8/16'' (Documentary) * 2017: '' Heroin(e)'' (Documentary short) * 2017: ''Timberline'' (Short) * 2017: ''Betting on Trump: Coal'' (Documentary short) * 2015: ''Forager'' (Documentary short) (completed) * 2013: ''For Seamus'' (Documentary short) * 2013: ''Hollow: An Interactive Documentary'' (Documentary) * 2012: ''The Lower 9: A Story of Home'' (Documentary) * 2011: ''Lincoln County Massacre'' (Documentary) References External links * * Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |