Irene Angelico

Irene Lilienheim Angelico
Born	(1946-12-09) December 9, 1946 (age 78) Munich, Germany
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Sir George Williams University (BA, 1974)
Occupation(s)	Film director, producer, writer
Known for	Dark Lullabies, The Cola Conquest, Black Coffee
Notable work	Dark Lullabies The Cola Conquest Black Coffee Inside the Great Magazines Vendetta Song First to Stand
Partner(s)	Abbey Jack Neidik (professional and personal partner)

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

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 Jack 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.^{[ 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; ^{[11] [17]} She Got Game; ^{[18] [19]} Vendetta Song, about an honour killing in Turkey; ^{[20] [21]} Canadaville, USA; about the town Franck Stonach built for Katrina survivors ^[22] and Unbreakable Minds, a film that explores mental illness. ^{[23] [24]}

Angelico was one of the founding chairs of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus Montreal (CIFC), now known as DOC. ^{[25] [6]}

Books

• Angelico co-edited The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-Torn Europe, written by her father, Henry Lilienheim. ^[5]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the National Film Board of Canada, ^[26] the Australian Centre for the Moving Image ^[27] and the Cinémathèque québécoise. ^[28]

Filmography

• ...And They Lived Happily Ever After, director, editor (1975) (co-directed with Kathleen Shannon and Anne Henderson) ^[29]
• Meditation in Motion, director, writer, editor (1979) ^[3]
• Dark Lullabies, producer, director, writer, editor (1985) ^{[30] [31] [32]}
• Entre Solitudes / Between Solitudes, producer (1992) ^[33]
• The Burning Times, associate producer (1990)
• The Cola Conquest; A Trilogy, producer, director, writer, editor (1998) ^{[10] [11]}
• The Love Prophet and the Children of God, producer (1998) ^[11]
• The Journey Home: a Romanian Adoption, producer (2000)

• She Got Game, producer (2003) ^[34]
• Vendetta Song producer, writer (2005)
• Unbreakable Minds producer (2005)
• Black Coffee director, writer (2007) ^{[35] [36]}
• Inside the Great Magazines , producer, director, writer (2007)
• Canadaville, USA, producer (2008) ^[22]
• Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women, producer (2013) ^[37]
• Beyond Earth: the Beginning of NewSpace, producer (2013)
• Big Wind, producer (2015)
• Shekinah Rising , producer (2018)
• First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler , producer, director, writer, editor (2022)

References

1. "Gemini winners". Playback. November 15, 1999. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
2. Who's who in Canadian Film and Television. Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. 2000. ISBN   9780771576546.
3. Documentation Sur la Recherche Féministe. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. 1979. p. 10.
4. "Arsenal: single". Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
5. "Books in Canada - Review". www.booksincanada.com.
6. Holmes, Gillian (June 1, 1999). Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000. University of Toronto Press. ISBN   9780920966556.
7. Giberovitch, Myra (December 31, 2013). Recovering from Genocidal Trauma: An Information and Practice Guide for Working with Holocaust Survivors. University of Toronto Press. p. 203. ISBN   978-1-4426-6544-6.
8. Peary, Gerald (February 27, 1986). "Berlin toasts Pool's 'pearl'" (PDF). The Globe and Mail.
9. Garrick, Louis (December 14, 2016). "Dark Lullaby: Irene Angelico's belated pilgrimage to Vilnius" . Retrieved August 17, 2020.
10. CHIDLEY, JOE (September 7, 1998). "Fortunes in fur and fizz" . Maclean's.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
11. Brownstein, Bill (August 29, 1998). "Couple turns lens on Pop Culture: From pop to cult life" (PDF). The Gazette. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
12. Kudak, Kelsey (May 1, 2008). "A responsible caffeine nation" (PDF). Minnesota Daily. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
13. Rodriquez, Roberto (May 3, 2011). "History Channel transmite documentales sobre el café" (PDF). El Universal (in Spanish) – via DLI Productions.
14. Cauchon, Paul. "Les grands magazines ont-ils encore un avenir?" (PDF). Le Devoir.
15. Crompton, Helen (January 27, 2010). "Documentary dissects the colourful world of magazines". The West Australian.
16. Kellett-Betsos, Kathleen L. (September 1994). "Between the Solitudes". CM: A Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People. 22 (4) – via The Manitoba Library.^{[ dead link ]}
17. Hays, Matthew (1998). "All in the family" (PDF). Mirror. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
18. Wertheim, Jon (April 28, 2003). "Hewitt's lawsuit has little merit" (PDF). Sports Illustrated.
19. Tebbut, Tom (2003). "Documentary shows life behind the game" (PDF). Globe and Mail. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
20. Heinrich, Jeff (February 25, 2005). "Focus on Deadly Custom" (PDF). The Gazette. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
21. Ozen, Omer (February 15, 2005). "Ve Bir Kan Davasi Ezgisi ya da Guzide" (PDF). bzim Anadolu. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
22. Wyatt, Nelson (November 1, 2007). "The town Frank Stronach built". The Star. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
23. "The Mental Illness Issue" (PDF). VICE. 12. November 30, 2005.
24. Irizarry, Kristopher. "Documentary examines schizophrenia". The Badger Herald.
25. "On the DOC Road – Point of View Magazine". povmagazine.com. September 2008.
26. "National Film Board of Canada". Government of Canada. October 11, 2012.
27. "And they lived happily ever after". ACMI Collections.
28. "Recherche Oeuvres La Cinémathèque québécoise". collections.cinematheque.qc.ca (in French).
29. "National Film Board of Canada". Government of Canada. October 11, 2012.
30. Laurence, Jean-Christophe (January 28, 2014). "Dark Lullabies: berceuse pour l'Holocauste". La Presse (in French).
31. The Canadian forum. Canadian Forum,Limited. April 1986. p. 28.
32. Dorland, Michael (October 1985). "Dark Lullabies". Cinema Canada: 39.
33. Kellett-Betsos, Kathleen. "BETWEEN THE SOLITUDES". umanitoba.ca.^{[ dead link ]}
34. McCarthy, Todd (December 16, 2003). "She Got Game". Variety.
35. Pendergrast, Mark (July 9, 2019). Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. Basic Books. ISBN   978-1-5416-4642-1.
36. Kennedy, Janice (November 13, 2005). "Wake and smell the revolution". Ottawa Citizen.
37. Cole, Susan G. (May 15, 2014). "Shekinah: The Intimate Life Of Hasidic Women". NOW Magazine. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2020.