Elizabeth Yake is a Canadian film producer, who is the founder and president of True West Films."Producer Yake goes Green in B.C.". ''

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'', August 27, 2005. She is most noted for the films ''

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'' and ''

It's All Gone Pete Tong ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' is a 2004 British-Canadian mockumentary-drama film about a DJ (Paul Kaye) who goes completely deaf. The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Ra ...

'',"Film producer scripts success story on Saltspring". ''

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'', July 3, 2005. the latter of which won the

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in 2004 and was a

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nominee for

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at the

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in 2006. Recent productions include Canadian digital series The Drop, which premiered via Narcity Canada's YouTube in 2023.

Education

Yake was educated at the

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and

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. She has also studied at the

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Career

Yake's dramatic films include '' The Feeler'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Mile Zero'', ''Miss Texas'', ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' and ''Everything's Gone Green''. Her documentaries include ''

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'', '' Jeff Wall: In Order to Make a Picture'', '' bp: pushing the boundaries'', ''The Dragon's Egg'', ''Mémoire Moire des souvenirs'' and ''Out of the Woods''. She was nominated for the

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in 1999 for ''The Dragon's Egg''. In 2005 she won the

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, Best Feature Length Drama for ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' and again in 2007 for ''Everything's Gone Green''. ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' was voted by '' Playback'' one of the ten best films of the 2000s, was nominated for Best Achievement in Production Award at the

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, Best Actor and Best Feature at the HBO US Comedy Festival (Aspen), winner of the Audience Award and Best Feature Award at the Gen Arts Film Festival in New York.

Awards and nominations

* 2016, Nominated for

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for Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary for ''

'' * 2015, Won Sharon Gibbon Award from Vancouver Women in Film & Television

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References

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