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'', October 26, 2005. which was the winner of the

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at the 2005

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. The niece of Canadian experimental filmmakers

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and

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, she began her career as a video artist in the 1980s, associated with Trinity Square Video and the YYZ Gallery art collective. In the 1990s she had editing credits on Cynthia Roberts's films ''

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'' and '' Bubbles Galore'', and directed the short films ''Signal'' (1993), ''Big Deal, So What'' (1995), ''Eight Men Called Eugene'' (1996), and ''Strands'' (1997), before graduating from the

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in 1997. Her short films, united by themes of the relationship between science and life, were also later screened together as the anthology package ''Life Tests''. She released her full-length debut documentary ''Dream Machine'', a profile of musician Roberta Michele, in 2000. She subsequently worked on various documentary television series before releasing ''Kardia'' in 2005. From 2008 to 2015, she directed numerous episodes of the documentary series ''

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''. In 2015 she released the documentary film '' The Messenger'', profiling the environmental threats to

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s. In 2021 she released ''Duet for Solo Piano'', a profile of pianist

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. Her television documentary ''Reef Rescue'', about efforts to save

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s from environmental destruction, was broadcast in 2020 as an episode of ''

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'',"Extra: CBC slates “Reef Rescue”; former Fox Networks Group exec joins ProgramBuyer"
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'', February 28, 2020. and in 2021 as an episode of ''

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''.

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