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Gia Milani aka Lisa Mckenzie (born in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian screenwriter and director. She attended the University of New Brunswick, and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, before graduating in 2001 with her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fine Craft.

Milani's debut feature film, All the Wrong Reasons , premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, where she won the $10,000 [1] Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award. [2] The same year, Milani was named one of Canada's Top film talents to watch by CBC. [3] She is the first woman from New Brunswick to have a feature film screen at TIFF. [4]

In late 2009 Milani won the Script Accessible Award for her then unproduced screenplay All the Wrong Reasons. She picked up the award at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival [5]

Milani won the $25,000 CBC Television 3-2-1 Award in 2008 for her short film A Dark Radius, loosely based on human trafficking in New Brunswick.

In 2007 Milani directed a music video for the band Hey Rosetta!, for the song The Year You Were Born, though an initiative by the Atlantic Film Festival's 10 x 10 Music Series that paired bands with directors for a 3-day competition. [6] The video went on to win The Most Unique Film at the Silver Wave Film Festival and screened at several festivals including the NSI.

Milani's work has played on CBC Television, The Movie Network, HBO Canada and The Movie Channel.

Awards

YearAwardWorkResult
2013Grolsch Filmworks Discovery Award at Toronto International Film FestivalAll the Wrong ReasonsWon
2013Viewers Choice Award Silver wave Film FestivalAll the Wrong ReasonsWon
2009Slamdance Script Accessible AwardAll the Wrong ReasonsWon
2009Final Draft Big Break CompetitionAll the Wrong ReasonsSemi-finalist (Top 20 in 3200)
2009Best Drama - Silver Wave Film FestivalA Dark RadiusWon
2009William F White Excellence in ScreenwritingA Dark RadiusWon
2008CBC 3-2-1 Award - CBC TelevisionA Dark RadiusWon
2007Most Unique Film - Silverwave Film FestivalThe Year You Were BornWon

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References

  1. ↑ "Age Gate" . Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  2. ↑ Punter, Jennie (2013-09-09). "Toronto: Cory Monteith's 'All The Wrong Reasons' Wins Discovery Award" . Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  3. ↑ "TIFF: Top Canadian film talents to watch". CBC News. Archived from the original on February 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Telefilm Canada (2013-09-10), Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch - Class of 2013: New Canadian Directors to Watch , retrieved 2016-09-15
  5. ↑ "16th Slamdance Festival announces prize winners". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  6. ↑ Knox, Carsten. "Hey Rosetta!'s The Year You Were Born video gets into NSI Online Short Film Fest". The Coast Halifax. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
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