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Abbey Jack Neidik (born 1947) is a Canadian film director, producer, writer and cinematographer.
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Abbey Jack Neidik (born 1947) is a Canadian film director, producer, writer and cinematographer.
Neidik was born in 1947 in Montreal. He received a BA degree from Sir George Williams University, Montreal.[ citation needed ]
In 1980, Neidik co-produced and directed Dark Lullabies [1] [2] about the effects of the Holocaust on the next generations of Jews and Germans. Dark Lullabies was the inaugural film at the Stratford Festival Forum, screened at the Berlin Arsenal 70th anniversary of The Holocaust, the Inconvenient Films: International Human Rights Festival, and the National Film Board of Canada’s International Salute to the Documentary.[ citation needed ]
Neidik next directed Between The Solitudes/Entre Solitudes, about the Anglo community in Quebec., followed by The Love Prophet and the Children of God, a look at a controversial religious cult. A Song for Tibet about Tibetans in exile; The Cola Conquest, [3] [4] produced by Neidik, is a three-part series about Coca-Cola as a metaphor for American influence worldwide. Neidik co-produced and directed The Journey Home: A Romanian Adoption, a film about Romanian orphans a decade after the fall of Ceausescu. He co-produced and co-directed She Got Game, [5] [6] a behind-the-scenes look at women’s tennis; Vendetta Song, which examines the tradition of honour killings in rural Kurdish tribes in Turkey; co-produced and directed Unbreakable Minds, [7] which aims to de-stigmatize mental illness; co-produced and co-directed; Inside the Great Magazines, [8] a three-part series about the inner workings of the magazine industry; and co-produced and directed Inside the Great Magazines; and Canadaville, USA, [9] about billionaire Frank Stronach's social experiment in rural Louisiana. [10] [11]
In 2013, Neidik co-produced and directed Beyond Earth: the Beginning of NewSpace; Shekinah: the Intimate Lives of Hasidic Women; in 2015 [12] Big Wind, about the effects of industrial wind turbines; and, in 2018, the sequel Shekinah Rising.[ citation needed ]
Most recently, Neidik co-directed, wrote and produced First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler , [13] [14] [15] [16] a documentary about former Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Canada and international human rights lawyer, Irwin Cotler and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. The film premiered on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2022 at the Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, Quebec. The film was screened for the inauguration of the Irwin Cotler Institute for Democracy, Human Rights and Justice at Tel Aviv University, and for the U.S. Congress on the occasion of Cotler receiving the Lantos Human Rights Award.[ citation needed ]
Neidik was co-editor in the publication of The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-Torn Europe.[ citation needed ]
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Canadian Film Awards, Etrog | Best Sound Editing | Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Won | |
| 1977 | Academy Award | Best Documentary Nomination | Won | ||
| 1985 | International Film Festival of Mannheim | Most Socially-Politically Engaging Film | Dark Lullabies | Won | |
| Ecumenical Jury Award | Won | ||||
| Education Jury | Second | ||||
| Audience Award | Won | ||||
| 1986 | Torino International Festival of Young Cinema | Prize of the City of Torino - Best Feature Film | Nominated | ||
| World Television Festival, Tokyo | Most Memorable Film | Won | |||
| American Film Festival | Red Ribbon | Won | |||
| 1989 | National Film Board of Canada | A Salute to the Documentary - Prix du Public | Won | ||
| 1991 | Genie Awards | Best Sound Editing | Falling Over Backwards | Nominated | |
| 1992 | Genie Awards | Best Short Documentary | A Song for Tibet | Won | [17] |
| American Film Festival | Blue Ribbon | Won | |||
| Hawaii Film Festival | Best Documentary of the Year | Won | |||
| Yorkton Film Festival | Best Documentary of the Year | Won | |||
| 1993 | Les Prix Gémeaux | Best Documentary | Entre Solitudes / Between Solitudes | Nominated | |
| Best Editing | Nominated | ||||
| 1998 | Chicago international Television Competition | Silver Hugo - Best Series | The Cola Conquest | Won | |
| Encounter Internacionais de Cinema Documentale, Vila Franca de Xira | |||||
| 1999 | Gemini Awards | Best Documentary Series | Nominated | ||
| Best Writing in a Documentary or Series | Won | ||||
| Hot Docs | Best Documentary Series - Independent | Won | |||
| National Education Media Network | Gold Apple | Won |