Julia Ivanova (filmmaker)

Julia Ivanova is a Russian-born Canadian documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] She is most noted for her films Family Portrait in Black and White, which won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the 2011 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival[2] and was a shortlisted Genie Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012,[3] and Limit Is the Sky, which won the Colin Low Award at the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.[4]

She was the subject of a special retrospective program at Hot Docs in 2019.[5]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Christopher Vourlias, "Julia Reichert, Julia Ivanova on the ‘Radical Act’ of Making Documentaries". Variety, April 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "Films about Ukrainian foster mom and California skate-punk top Hot Docs: Hot Docs awards Ukraine-set doc top Cdn prize". Canadian Press, May 6, 2011.
  3. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Cafe de Flore, A Dangerous Method lead the field for Genie Awards". Playback, January 17, 2012.
  4. ^ Charlie Smith, "DOXA fest announces its 2017 award-winning films". The Georgia Straight, May 14, 2017.
  5. ^ Norman Wilner, "Hot Docs announces retrospectives, country spotlight for 2019 festival". Now, January 23, 2019.