''The Amina Profile'' (French: ''Le profil Amina'') is a 2015 Canadian documentary film directed by
Sophie Deraspe
Sophie Deraspe (born October 27, 1973) is a Canadian director, scenarist, director of photography and producer. Prominent in new Quebec cinema, she is known for a 2015 documentary ''The Amina Profile'', an exploration of the Amina Abdallah Arraf ...
and coproduced by Esperamos and the
National Film Board of Canada
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, which premiered at the
2015 Sundance Film Festival
The 2015 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 22 to February 1, 2015. ''What Happened, Miss Simone?'', a biographical documentary film about American singer Nina Simone, opened the festival. Comedy-drama film '' Grandma'', directed by ...
in the World Cinema category. It was pitched at
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield DocFest (formerly styled Sheffield Doc/Fest; abbr.Sheffield International Documentary Festival or SIDF) is an international documentary Film festival, festival and industry marketplace held annually in Sheffield, England.
The festiv ...
's MeetMarket in 2014. The film was retitled ''A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile'' by its U.S. distributor IFC for the theatrical release and for subsequent film festival screenings.
Synopsis
The film centres on Sandra Bagaria, a Montreal woman who was in an online relationship with star blogger
Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari
''A Gay Girl in Damascus'' (February 2011 - June 2011) was a blog purportedly authored by Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari. Omari was, in fact, a hoax persona created by the American citizen and then-student of the University of Edinburgh, Thomas ...
. Bagaria became involved in the international attempt to rescue Arraf after her purported abduction by the Syrian regime.
Reception
Under its French title, ''Le profil Amina'', the film was named Best Documentary:Society at the 2016
Prix Gémeaux
The Prix Gémeaux () or Gémeaux Awards honour achievements in Canadian television and digital media that is broadcast in French. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1987. Introduced as a French-language eq ...
, honouring the best in francophone Canadian television.
The film received
Canadian Screen Award
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nominations for
Best Feature Length Documentary and
Best Editing in a Documentary at the
4th Canadian Screen Awards
The 4th Canadian Screen Awards was held on March 13, 2016, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2015.
Nominations were announced on January 19, 2016. Throughout the week before the main ceremony, aw ...
.
It was shortlisted for the
Prix collégial du cinéma québécois The Prix collégial du cinéma québécois is an annual Canadian film award, presented to a film from Quebec judged as the best of the year by a jury of students in film studies programs at the province's CEGEPs.Léa Carrier"Je m’appelle humain re ...
in 2016.
[David Rémillard]
"Chorus remporte le Prix collégial du cinéma québécois"
''Le Soleil
Le Soleil ("The Sun") is the name of several newspapers:
* ''Le Soleil'' (Quebec), a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, founded in 1896
* ''Le Soleil'' (French newspaper), a defunct daily newspaper based in Paris fro ...
'', March 19, 2016.
See also
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List of LGBT films directed by women
This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-related films that were directed by women. LGBTQ-themed films directed by women – especially, but not exclusively, lesbian-themed movies – are an important and distinct subset of ...
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2015 films
Documentary films about LGBTQ and Islam
2015 LGBTQ-related films
Documentary films about the Internet
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
Films directed by Sophie Deraspe
Documentary films about lesbians
English-language Canadian films
French-language Canadian films
Arabic-language Canadian films
2010s Canadian films
Canadian LGBTQ-related documentary films