Dana Inkster
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Dana Inkster is a Canadian media artist and
Biography
Inkster grew up in
Artistic career
Inkster's work often experiments with narrative while exploring the complexities of identify, which stem in part, from her experiences as a black, queer, feminist.[1] Her first film, Welcome to Africville, was released in 1999.[3] In 2008, her film 24 Days in Brooks, which documents a 2005 labour strike at Lakeside Packers,[6] won an Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award for best production reflecting cultural diversity.[5] The film examines the lives of recent immigrant workers drawn to Brooks by numerous entry-level, unskilled labour jobs.[7]
Inkster has directed a television ad in a Canadian Race Relations Foundation anti-racism campaign.[8]
She has won the best Canadian female film director prize from the Toronto Images Film Festival. The Art of Autobiography was awarded Best Short or Medium-length Documentary by the Association of Quebec Cinema Critics.[2]
Filmography
- Welcome to Africville (1999)[5]
- The Art of Autobiography: Redux I (2001)[5]
- 24 Days in Brooks (2007)[9]
- The Writer's Room (in development)
References
- ^ a b c McLeod, Dayna (2009). "Getting Messy and Complicated with Dana Inkster". nomorepotlucks.org. No More Potlucks. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ ProQuest 218540358.
- ^ ISBN 0770905196.
- ^ "Walter Phillips Gallery to host exhibition on nationhood and identity". www.banffcentre.ca/. Banff Centre. February 11, 2008. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ Xtra!. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ Kenney, Trevor (October 29, 2009). "Rethinking stereotypes". University of Lethbridge. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ Ciccone, Carla (September 27, 2007). "Immigration influx". Fast Forward Weekly. Archived from the original on March 9, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ProQuest 455080550.
- National Film Board. Retrieved March 8, 2015.