Catherine Annau

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Catherine Annau is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and writer.

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Annau's debut feature Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation [1] [2] won numerous awards including a Genie Award, [3] and appeared at New York's Lincoln Center, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, and at various film festivals worldwide. [4]

Annau's other directing work includes the international co-production Sexual Intelligence with Kim Cattrall, broadcast on HBO, Channel 4, and Discovery Canada; Winning, a documentary about lottery winners, broadcast by the Sundance Channel U.S and public broadcasters, and The Power Refugees, a half-hour documentary about young Canadians in New York, which was nominated for a Gemini award. She produced and directed for CBC's investigative journalism series The Fifth Estate . Her documentary The Good Father about one of Canada's worst sexual predators won a Gracie Award (U.S). She has also produced an internationally award-winning documentary on women and heart disease, Wisdom of the Heart.[ citation needed ]

A published author, her written work has appeared in the Trudeau Albums (Penguin Books, 2000), and in The Globe and Mail , as well as in academic journals and anthologies of Canadian history.

Annau produced and directed Brick by Brick: the Story of Evergreen Brickworks, a documentary film about urban and environmental renewal and the Nazi POWs who helped build modern Toronto. It won a Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Clark, Andrew. "Trudeau's children | Maclean's | February 21, 2000". Maclean's | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  2. ↑ Gittings, Christopher E. (2002). Canadian National Cinema: Ideology, Difference and Representation. Psychology Press. ISBN   978-0-415-14281-6.
  3. ↑ Poirier2000-01-31T11:45:00+00:00, Agnes. "Genies favour Felicia's Journey". Screen. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  4. ↑ Pallister, Janis L.; Hottell, Ruth A. (2005). French-speaking Women Documentarians: A Guide (in French). Peter Lang. ISBN   978-0-8204-7614-8.
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