Andrew Moir is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He is most noted for his 2019 film ''
Take Me to Prom
''Take Me to Prom'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Andrew Moir and released in 2019.Oliver Skinner"What does it mean to be queer at the prom? This new film explores seven decades of answers" CBC Arts, May 3, 2019. The film traces the ...
'', which won the
Canadian Screen Award
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8th Canadian Screen Awards
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in 2020. He was previously nominated two other times in the same category, for the films '' Just As I Remember'' at the
2nd Canadian Screen Awards
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6th Canadian Screen Awards
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in 2018.
''Just As I Remember'' also won the
Toronto Film Critics Association
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History
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National Post
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'', January 8, 2013.
His full-length feature debut ''
Don't Come Searching
''Don't Come Searching'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Andrew Moir and released in 2022. An expansion of Moir's 2017 short documentary film '' Babe, I Hate to Go'', the film centres on Delroy Dunkley, a migrant worker from Jamaica w ...
'', an expansion of ''Babe, I Hate to Go'', was released in 2022.
Originally from
London
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,
Ontario
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London, July 19, 2017. he is a film studies graduate of
Toronto Metropolitan University
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