Canadian documentary filmmaker
Maya Gallus is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Red Queen Productions with Justine Pimlott. Her films have been screened at international film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[1][2][3] Sheffield Doc/Fest, SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, This Human World Film Festival (Vienna) and Women Make Waves (Taiwan), among others. Her work has also screened at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Donostia Kultura, San Sebastián and Canada House UK, as well as theatrically in Tokyo, San Francisco, Key West and Toronto, and been broadcast around the world. She has won numerous awards, including a Gemini Award for Best Direction for Girl Inside, and has been featured in The Guardian,[4][5] UK; Ms. (Magazine), Curve (Magazine), Bust (Magazine), Salon (Magazine), POV[6][7][8][9] and The Walrus, among others.[5][10][11][12] She is a Director/Writer alumna of the Canadian Film Centre and a participant in Women in the Director’s Chair. She will be honoured with a "Focus On" retrospective at the 2017 Hot Docs festival.[13]
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Atlantic Film Festival
Gemini Awards
- 1992: Best Direction in a Documentary - Elizabeth Smart: On The Side of the Angels (Nomination)
Genie Awards
- 1998: Best Documentary: Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality (Nomination)
Hot Docs
- 1998: Best Arts Documentary: Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality (Nomination)
Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Awards
- 1991: Best Production: Elizabeth Smart: On The Side of the Angels (Award)
- 1991: Best Documentary: Elizabeth Smart: On The Side of the Angels (Award)
- 1991: Best Editing: Elizabeth Smart: On The Side of the Angels (Award)
For additional awards - see Red Queen Productions
References
- ^ The Art of the Interview (2017). Interview with Maya Gallus [Video]. Vimeo.
- ^ White, K. (2017, May 8). Hot Docs '17: Maya Gallus on the art of the interview. RealScreen.
- ^ Marc G. (2017, April 29). Freeze Frame. POV Magazine. Retrieved from https://povmagazine.com/freeze-frame-maya-gallus/.
- ^ Henry Barnes (10 June 2014). "Derby Crazy Love directors at Sheffield Doc/Fest: 'Nobody's making a big feminist point about it - it just is inclusive' - video interview". The Guardian.
- ^ a b "London Rollergirls prepare to face the toughest team in the world - the feared Gotham Girls". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022.
- ^ Maya Gallus (2020, June 16) Agnes Varda: Emotion Pictures. POV Magazine.
- ^ Maya Gallus. (2021, June 6). Dazzling beauty: The cinema of Chantal Akerman. POV Magazine.
- ^ "The open hearts of the Red Queens - Part One". povmagazine.com. 26 February 2013.
- ^ "The open hearts of the Red Queens - Part Two". povmagazine.com. 26 February 2013.
- ^ "Derby Crazy Love: Red Queen Productions Celebrates a New Kind of Femininity with Roller Derby Documentary". Shedoesthecity. 11 November 2013.
- ^ "Hot Docs: Waitress is no servant, she just serves you food". thestar.com. 29 April 2010.
- ^ "Brick Magazine: An interview with Dominique Aury – Brick 58, Winter 1998". brickmag.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ^ Reid, Regan (27 January 2017). "Hot Docs to honor Toronto's Maya Gallus". Realscreen. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Lost Ladies of Lit (2022). Interview with Maya Gallus re: Elizabeth Smart & By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.
- ^ Revue Cinema (2022). Extraordinary Women series: An afternoon with Canadian author Elizabeth Smart. [Film and panel event].
- ^ The SpokenWeb Podcast (2022). The agony and the ecstasy of Elizabeth Smart.
- ^ LaSalle, Mick (26 February 1999). "Artful Paen to Female Sexuality: Erotica Interviews Fascinating Women". sfgate.com. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- ^ "January 25 on FM: "waitressing", anti-rape arts project, Suzanne Lacy". feministmagazine.com.
- ^ "A Partial Guide to Films By and About Women". femfilm.swathmore.edu.
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