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Canadian film director
Loretta Sarah Todd is a Canadian Indigenous documentary filmmaker.[1] [2] Sundance Film Festival , the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the American Indian Film Festival (San Francisco), the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival , and in the Museum of Modern Art .
Todd’s work encompasses Indigenous media.[3] Cree /Metis .[4] [2]
Filmography [ edit ] Halfway House [5] [6] Breaking Camp Robes of Power Blue Neon The Storyteller in the City Day Glo Wrestler Eagle Run The Healing Circle Taking Care of Our Own The Learning Path Hands of History Voice-Life No More Secrets Through the Lens: an Alternative Look at Filmmaking (1996) [6] Forgotten Warriors (1997)Today is a Good Day (1999)Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On (2003)[7] Tansi! Nehiyawetan (2011)[5] [8] Skye & Chang pilot (2014)[5] Coyote’s Crazy Smart Science Show (2017)[5] [8] Fierce Girls (2018)[9] Monkey Beach [5] [6] [10] Selected awards and nominations [ edit ] Rockefeller Fellow ImagineNATIVE Lifetime Achievement Award[7]
Taos Mountain Award for Lifetime Achievement[11]
Sundance Scriptwriters Lab
Chicago International Film Festival - Silver Hugo for The Learning Path. Two Rivers Film Festival - New Visionary Award for The Learning Path.
American Film and Video Festival - Blue Ribbon for The Learning Path. [8] [5]
Genie Award - Best Short Documentary nomination for Forgotten Warriors [5] American Indian Film Festival - Winner for Best Live Short: Subject for Skye & Chang (2013)[5] [8]
Women in Film & Television Vancouver’s Spotlight Awards - Winner 2018 Innovation Award [5] [8]
American Indian Film Festival - Best Documentary Film for Today is a Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George
American Indian Film Festival - Best Documentary Film for Forgotten Warriors
HotDocs - Best History Documentary for Forgotten Warriors References [ edit ]
^ "Loretta Todd" . wef.org . 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2023-04-05 .^ a b "Loretta Todd" . The Shine Network Institute . Retrieved 2023-04-05 .^ "Loretta Todd" . development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 2023-04-05 .^ "NFB Films directed by Loretta Todd" . National Film Board of Canada . Retrieved 2023-04-05 .^ a b c d e f g h i "Loretta Todd" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-03-26 .^ a b c Levitin, Jacqueline (2012-12-06). Levitin, Jacqueline; Plessis, Judith; Raoul, Valerie (eds.). Women Filmmakers . doi :10.4324/9780203819418 . ISBN 9780203819418 ^ a b Silverman, Jason. "Loretta Todd". Historica Canada. April 2007.
^ a b c d e Kalafatic, Carol (1999-01-31), "Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh", in Armatage, Kay; Banning, Kass; Longfellow, Brenda (eds.), Gendering the Nation , University of Toronto Press, doi :10.3138/9781442675223-009 , ISBN 9781442675223 ^ "Fierce Girls Webseries" . Fierce Girls . Retrieved 2019-03-26 .^ Townsend, Kelly (September 24, 2020). "Monkey Beach's 10-year journey from print to screen" . Retrieved 2023-04-05 . ^ Silverman, Jason. "Uncommon Visions- The Films of Loretta Todd." Senses of Cinema. October 2002.
