Elizabeth Yake
Elizabeth Yake is a Canadian
Recent productions include Canadian digital series The Drop, which premiered via Narcity Canada's YouTube in 2023.[5]
Education
Yake was educated at the
Career
Yake's dramatic films include The Feeler, Shoemaker, Desire, Mile Zero, Miss Texas, It's All Gone Pete Tong and Everything's Gone Green.[citation needed] Her documentaries include Hadwin's Judgement, Jeff Wall: In Order to Make a Picture, bp: pushing the boundaries, The Dragon's Egg, Mémoire Moire des souvenirs and Out of the Woods.[citation needed]
She was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award in 1999 for The Dragon's Egg.[citation needed]
In 2005 she won the Leo Award, Best Feature Length Drama for It's All Gone Pete Tong[6] and again in 2007 for Everything's Gone Green.
It's All Gone Pete Tong was voted by Playback one of the ten best films of the 2000s, was nominated for Best Achievement in Production Award at the British Independent Film Awards, Best Actor and Best Feature at the HBO US Comedy Festival (Aspen), winner of the Audience Award and Best Feature Award at the Gen Arts Film Festival in New York.
Awards and nominations
- 2016, Nominated for Canadian Screen Award for Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary for Hadwin's Judgement[7]
- 2015, Won Sharon Gibbon Award from Vancouver Women in Film & Television Spotlight Awards[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "Producer Yake goes Green in B.C.". The Province, August 27, 2005.
- ^ Victoria Times-Colonist, July 3, 2005.
- Canadian Press, October 3, 2005.
- Peterborough Examiner, January 26, 2006.
- ^ Victoria Ahearn (September 12, 2022). "Cameras roll on True West Films' first scripted series The Drop". Retrieved 2024-01-30.
- ^ "DJs are in clubs and onscreen". Vancouver Sun, June 4, 2005.
- ^ "13 Hot Docs Alumni Nominated for Canadian Screen Awards". Hotdocs. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
External links
- Elizabeth Yake at IMDb