Annette Clarke (producer)

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Annette Clarke is a Canadian producer of documentary and animated films, who served as executive producer of the National Film Board of Canada's Quebec and Atlantic studio from 2003 to 2021. [1]

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Clarke first joined the NFB's Newfoundland office in 1987, moving to Montreal two years later to work with the Studio D unit for women filmmakers. [2] She left the NFB in 1997 to launch her own studio, Ruby Line Productions, [3] before returning to the NFB in 2003.

Filmography

Producer

  • When Women Kill – 1994
  • Democracy à la Maude – 1998
  • White Thunder – 2002
  • Cottonland – 2006
  • Heads Up! – 2006
  • The Sparky Book – 2006
  • Becoming 13 – 2006
  • Race Is a Four-Letter Word – 2006
  • Inside Time – 2007
  • Hannah's Story – 2007
  • Good Morning Kandahar – 2007
  • Griefwalker – 2008
  • Little Thunder – 2009
  • Vive la rose – 2009
  • Four Feet Up – 2009
  • Red Ochre – 2009
  • Flawed – 2009
  • Waseteg – 2010
  • The Chocolate Farmer – 2011
  • Hard Light – 2011
  • The Boxing Girls of Kabul – 2011
  • Imaginary Heroine – 2012
  • Buying Sex – 2012
  • Impromptu – 2013
  • Mary & Myself – 2013
  • Song for Cuba – 2014
  • Marijina epizoda – 2014
  • 54 Hours – 2014
  • Danny – 2014
  • Gun Runners – 2015
  • Hand.Line.God – 2016
  • Theatre of Life – 2016
  • Bluefin – 2016
  • The Mystery of the Secret Room – 2016
  • Reel East Coast – 2017
  • Love, Scott – 2018
  • Assholes: A Theory – 2019
  • River Silence – 2019
  • Becoming Labrador – 2019
  • Wintopia – 2019
  • 4 North A – 2020
  • How to Be At Home – 2020
  • Dear Audrey – 2021
  • The Storm – 2021

Executive producer

Awards

AwardCategoryYearWorkResultRef(s)
Gemini Awards Best History Documentary Program 2002 White ThunderNominated [4]
Donald Brittain Award 2007 CottonlandNominated [5]
Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series 2008 Heads Up!Nominated [6]
Genie Awards Best Animated Short 2010 Vive la rose Nominated [7]
Canadian Screen Awards 2014 ImpromptuNominated [8]
2021 4 North A Nominated [9]
Best Feature Length Documentary The Forbidden Reel Nominated [9]
2023 Dear Audrey Nominated [10]
Best Short Documentary 2013 The Boxing Girls of Kabul Won [11]
2014 Mary & Myself Nominated [12]
2020 Gun Killers Nominated [13]
2022 Nalujuk Night Won [14]
2023 Bill Reid Remembers Nominated [15]
Perfecting the Art of Longing Nominated [15]
Donald Brittain Award 2016 Danny Nominated [16]
2021 Assholes: A Theory Nominated [9]
Prix Iris Best Documentary Film 2021 Wintopia Nominated [17]

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