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DOXA award winners are selected on the basis of three major criteria: success and innovation in the realization of the project’s concept; originality and relevance of subject matter and approach; and overall artistic and technical proficiency.
Congratulations to this year’s award winners!
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Betsy Carson is a Vancouver producer with 20 years experience in documentary film and television. She works with directors Nettie Wild, Hugh Brody and Gary Marcuse, and for the last three years has been co-executive producing several feature docs with Mark Achbar. Betsy Carson currently holds the position of Co-Vice Chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada.
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Selwyn Jacob joined the National Film Board in 1997 as Cultural Diversity Producer. Based in Vancouver, his most recent productions include Baljit Sangra’s Warrior Boyz, Kamala Todd’s Indigenous Plant Diva, Writing the Land directed by Kevin Lee Burton, and River of Life directed by Werner Walcher. He also produced the Leo Award winning The Journey of Lesra Martin, and Jeni LeGon: Living in a Great Big Way.
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Fiona Tinwei Lam is a Scottish-born, Vancouver-based writer and former lawyer. Her book, Intimate Distances, was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Twice short-listed for the Event literary non-fiction prize, she is a co-editor of and contributor to Double Lives: Writing and Mothering, published in 2008 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her new collection of poetry, Enter the Chrysanthemum, has just been published by Caitlin Press.
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Alex Mackenzie has been a media artist for 15 years with a focus on expanded cinema and light projection. He was founder and curator of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. His live media works are presented at festivals throughout Europe and North America. He is currently designing handmade film emulsions and manually-powered projection devices for installation and performance.
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Bo Myers is a director working in film and video. Her film The Indelible Print was featured at the Commonwealth Games and received an award in Mexico City. Tiny Bubbles has screened internationally, including the Melbourne International Film Festival and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. A sampling of internationally exhibited commissions includes Picture@Platform and Blossom.
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Terra Poirier’s award-winning films ponder themes of mothering, queerness and mental health, and have screened at festivals around the world. She has taught video production through the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, the Gulf Islands Film & Television School and the Access to Media Education Society. Terra additionally enjoys fighting the power and making buttons, books, prints and other fanciful things.
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Prize: Filmmaker Assistance Fund (FAP), technical services
(valued at $3,000)
Named for Colin Low, a tireless innovator and a pioneer of new
techniques in filmmaking who has made extraordinary contributions
to cinema in Canada and around the world. This award is presented
by the NFB to the most innovative Canadian film at DOXA.
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Glace Lawrence has worked in Toronto and Vancouver’s film and television industries since the late 80s. In 1999, her one-hour doc Coming to Voice received a Reel Black Award from the Black Film & Video Network. In 2005 Glace developed and produced a one-hour drama with Gerry Atwell for Vision TV entitled Hotel Babylon. She currently line produces the HGTV Canada/USA series The Stagers for Paperny Films.
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Leah Mallen is an established producer of documentary and dramatic films based in Vancouver, BC. Her films have garnered awards at many international festivals including Cannes (Shoes off!) and Zurich (Hammer & Tickle). She helms the company Twofold Films, and is currently producing a documentary for Knowledge Network called Desolation/Utopia. She is also the co-Chair for DOC BC.
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Doreen Manuel is of Secwepemc and Ktunuxa ancestry and is a member of the Neskonlith Band in Chase BC. She graduated from the Aboriginal Film & Television program and currently is Program Coordinator in the Indigenous Independent Digital Filmmaking program at Capilano University, as well as Canadian correspondent of Northwest Indian News and owner of Running Wolf Productions.
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