Nettie Wild

Nettie Wild (born 18 May 1952) is a Canadian documentary film filmmaker.[1]

Education

Wild received her BFA from the University of British Columbia.[2]

Work

In 1991 she founded the Canada Wild Production with producer Betsy Carson. Wild has directed and produced several feature-length documentary films:

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 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.[6]

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.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Nettie Wild at IMDB
  2. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/030001-1270-e.html
  3. "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.
  4. Meagan Deuling (7 February 2016). "New film Koneline a cinematic poem for Tahltan traditional territory". CBC.ca. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  5. Chris Knight (9 June 2016). "Koneline: Our Land Beautiful serves moral ambiguity and beautiful British Columbia visuals". National Post. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  6. "http://www.hotdocs.ca/news/hd16-awards" (Press release). Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016. External link in |title= (help)
  7. "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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