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- ↑ Brent Furdyk, "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Non-Fiction Winners Revealed". ET Canada , May 25, 2020.
- ↑ Manori Ravindran, “Watermark,” “My Prairie Home” up for Canadian Screen Awards. RealScreen , January 13, 2014.
- ↑ Jordan Pinto, "CSAs ’18: Never Steady Never Still, Ava top CSA film noms". Playback , January 16, 2018.
- 1 2 Chris Knight, "Sarah Polley awarded $100K Rogers Best Canadian Film Award from TFCA for Stories We Tell". National Post , January 8, 2013.
- ↑ Pat Mullen, "Don’t Come Searching and the Art of Letting Go". Point of View , May 2, 2022.
- ↑ Gary Ennett, "London filmmaker documents the life and death of a migrant worker in Southwestern Ontario". CBC News London, July 19, 2017.
