Ryan McKenna is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from
Winnipeg
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,
Manitoba
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Montreal Gazette
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'', December 3, 2015. He is most noted for his 2017 short documentary film '' Voices of Kidnapping'', which was a
Canadian Screen Award
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7th Canadian Screen Awards
The seventh annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 31, 2019, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2018.The Heart of Madame Sabali (Le Cœur de Madame Sabali)'' and ''Cranks'', and the short films ''Open Window'', ''Chinatown'', ''Bon voyage'', ''Honky Tonk Ben'', ''Four-Mile Creek'', ''Controversies'', ''Gerson Workout'', '' I Used to Live There'' (2023) and '' Solitudes'' (2025), premiered at the
78th Locarno Film Festival
The 78th Locarno Film Festival will be held from 6 August to 16 August 2025 in Locarno, Switzerland. American filmmaker Alexander Payne will be honoured with Leopard of Honour, Pardo d’Onore on 15 August.
Rithy Panh, a Cambodian documentary ...
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An alumnus of the
Winnipeg Film Group
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While specializing in sho ...
, he was cowriter with
Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin is a Canadian experimental filmmaker. His feature-length debut, '' The Twentieth Century,'' premiered in 2019 and was nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, winning three.
His second feature film, ''Universal Language (Une l ...
of the "Winnipeg Brutalist Manifesto", a
Dogme 95
Dogme 95 (; Danish for "Dogma 95") was a Danish avant-garde filmmaking movement founded by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity" (). These were rules to create films based on the t ...