Nettie Wild
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Nettie Wild (born 18 May 1952) is a Canadian documentary film filmmaker.[1]
Early Life
Wild was born in New York City on May 18, 1952.[2]
Education
Wild received her BFA from the University of British Columbia.[3]
Work
In 1991 she founded the Canada Wild Production with producer Betsy Carson. Wild has directed and produced several feature-length documentary films:
- A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution (1988)
- Blockade (1993) about a Gitksan logging blockade at Gitwangak
- A Place Called Chiapas (1998) about Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico.
- FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2002) which deals with efforts to provide a safe injection site in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Koneline: Our Land Beautiful (2016), about the Tahltan people, its culture, and its lands.[4][5][6]
Awards
Wild was awarded the audience award for best documentary film at the 1998 AFI Fest for A Place Called Chiapas. She was given Genie Awards for Best Feature Length Documentary for both A Place Called Chiapas and Fix, and won two awards at the Berlin International Film Festival for A Rustling of Leaves.[1]
At the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (HotDocs), Wild won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award for KONELĪNE: our land beautiful.[7]
At the 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival, Wild's film KONELĪNE: our land beautiful won the Women in Film and Television Artistic Merit Award, presented to a Canadian feature film at VIFF written and/or directed solely by a woman.[8]
References
- ^ a b Nettie Wild at IMDB
- ^ Rossi, Cheryl (Fall 2018). "Documentary filmmaker wild about real life drama; Pacific Cinematheque hosts Nettie Wild retrospective, book launch". Vancouver Courier – via ProQuest.
- ^ https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/030001-1270-e.html
- ^ "Tahltan Band Honoured to Host World Premiere of "KONELĪNE: our land beautiful" documentary" (Press release). Tahltan Band Council. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ Meagan Deuling (7 February 2016). "New film Koneline a cinematic poem for Tahltan traditional territory". CBC.ca. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Chris Knight (9 June 2016). "Koneline: Our Land Beautiful serves moral ambiguity and beautiful British Columbia visuals". National Post. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ "http://www.hotdocs.ca/news/hd16-awards" (Press release). Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
{{cite press release}}: External link in|title= - ^ "Maudie Wins Coveted VIFF Super Channel People's Choice Award" (Press release). Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
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