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Nimisha Mukerji is a Canadian film and television director. She has directed episodes of The Imperfects , Mech-X4 , and Gabby Duran & the Unsittables . [1]
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Nimisha Mukerji is a Canadian film and television director. She has directed episodes of The Imperfects , Mech-X4 , and Gabby Duran & the Unsittables . [1]
Mukerji's debut feature, 65 Redroses (2009), was one of the first official selections by Oprah Winfrey for her Documentary Club on OWN. Distributed by PBS International, Ro*co, and Hellocoolworld, 65_Redroses was commissioned by the CBC and acquired by Netflix and Hulu. In 2009, Mukerji and Philip Lyall, her collaborator on 65 Redroses, were named winners of the Don Haig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. [2]
Mukerji's second feature, Blood Relative (2012), was produced for Knowledge Network and screened in competition at Hot Docs 2013, winning the Audience Awards in Vancouver, New York, and Paris, before receiving three Canadian Screen Award nominations, including Best Direction in a Documentary Program, Mukerji's second nomination in this category. [3]
Her short narrative works include The Arrival Hour, In the Deep, and Beauty Mark, which was the official selection by Telefilm Canada's Not Short on Talent Program at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Mukerji is an alumnus of TIFF's Talent Lab and sits on the boards of DOC National and Point of View . She was the recipient of the 2014 Women in Film & Television Artistic Achievement Award and the 2015 Directors Guild of Canada's Mentorship Award.[ citation needed ]
Her latest feature, Tempest Storm, was released in 2016 and is being produced with Super Channel, ARTE, and SWR for distribution by Mongrel Media.[ citation needed ]
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America. The event takes place annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 27th edition of the festival took place online throughout May and June 2020. In addition to the annual festival, Hot Docs owns and operates the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, administers multiple production funds, and runs year-round screening programs including Doc Soup and Hot Docs Showcase.
François Verster is an independent South African film director and documentary maker.
Maureen Judge is a Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) winning filmmaker and television producer. Much of her work is documentary and explores themes of love, betrayal and acceptance in the context of the modern family, with the most recent films focusing on the dreams and challenges of contemporary youth.
65_RedRoses is a 2009 documentary film about Eva Markvoort, a young woman from New Westminster, British Columbia, who suffered from cystic fibrosis. Directed by Philip Lyall and Nimisha Mukerji, it follows Markvoort as she lives her life undaunted by her disease, waiting for a lung transplant while blogging about her experiences.
Merit Motion Pictures is an independent documentary film and television production company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded by Merit Jensen Carr in 1988.
Ann Shin is a filmmaker and writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Liz Marshall is a Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto. Since the 1990s, she has directed and produced independent projects and been part of film and television teams, creating broadcast, theatrical, campaign and cross-platform documentaries shot around the world. Marshall's feature length documentaries largely focus on social justice and environmental themes through strong characters. She is known for The Ghosts in Our Machine and for Water on the Table, for which she also produced impact and engagement campaigns, and attended many global events as a public speaker. Water on the Table features water rights activist, author and public figure Maude Barlow. The Ghosts in Our Machine features animal rights activist, photojournalist and author Jo-Anne McArthur.
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Hot Docs at Home is a Canadian television programming block, which premiered April 16, 2020 on CBC Television. Introduced as a special series during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the series aired several feature documentary films that had been scheduled to premiere at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival before its postponement. The films aired on CBC Television at 8 p.m. EST on Thursdays and on the CBC's Documentary Channel later the same evening, and were made available for streaming on the CBC Gem platform.
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The Don Haig Award is an annual award, presented by the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival for distinguished achievement by a Canadian independent documentary film producer with a film in that year's festival program. Despite the requirement to have a film in that year's festival lineup, however, the award is not presented for that specific film, but in consideration of the recipient's overall body of work.
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