Irene Angelico

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Irene Lilienheim Angelico (born December 9, 1946) is a Canadian film director, producer and writer. [1] [2]

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Early life

Angelico was born in 1946 in Munich. [2] [3] Her parents, survivors of the Vilna Ghetto, emigrated to Canada. [4] [5] She received a BA degree from Sir George Williams University, Montreal, in 1974. [6]

Career

In 1980, Angelico and her partner Abbey Neidik, who would become a frequent collaborator, produced and directed the feature documentary, Dark Lullabies. The film explored the effect of the Holocaust on children of survivors and second-generation Germans. [7] The film received the first prize for "The Most Socially/Politically Engaging Film" at Mannheim and the prize for "The Most Memorable Film" in Tokyo. It was included in The Fifty Greatest Documentaries of all Time at the international Salute to the Documentary, and selected to represent the best of the NFB's Studio D at retrospectives in London and France.[ citation needed ] In the summer of 2013, it was selected as the inaugural feature documentary at the Stratford Festival Forum. The film continues to be screened and broadcast worldwide including special commemorative screening in Berlin and Vilnius. [8] [9]

Angelico went on to write and direct 1998's The Cola Conquest, a documentary about Coca-Cola as a metaphor for America. [10] [11] The documentary Black Coffee explored the history and social impact of coffee. [12] [13] The 2007 film Inside the Great Magazines was about the first international media. [14] [15]

Angelico also produced and wrote many documentaries including the 1992 Entre Solitudes about the Anglos of Quebec; [16] The Love Prophet and the Children of God about a sex for salvation cult; [17] [18] She Got Game; [19] [20] Vendetta Song, about an honour killing in Turkey; [21] [22] Canadaville, USA; about the town Franck Stonach built for Katrina survivors [23] and Unbreakable Minds, a film that explores mental illness. [24] [25]

Angelico was one of the founding chairs of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus Montreal (CIFC), now known as DOC. [26] [6]

Books

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the National Film Board of Canada, [27] the Australian Centre for the Moving Image [28] and the Cinémathèque québécoise. [29]

Filmography

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