Dana Inkster Explained

Dana Inkster
Birth Place:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Field:Filmmaker

Dana Inkster is a Canadian media artist and filmmaker.[1]

Biography

Inkster grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. She focused on political studies during her undergraduate education at Queen's University,[1] [2] and has a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies from Concordia University.[3] She currently lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta[4] where she lives with her partner and their son.[5]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Getting Messy and Complicated with Dana Inkster . McLeod . Dayna . 2009 . nomorepotlucks.org . No More Potlucks . March 8, 2015.
  2. News: The activists: Into the fire. no grumbling from the sidelines with this group, they are doers who jump in with both feet. look among their ranks for the leaders of tomorrow series: 100 to watch. Maclean's. .
  3. Book: Anthem / Hymne: Perspectives on Home and Native Land. 2008 . ABC Art Books Canada Distribution. 978-0770905194.
  4. Web site: Walter Phillips Gallery to host exhibition on nationhood and identity . . February 11, 2008 . www.banffcentre.ca/ . Banff Centre . March 8, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402231756/http://www.banffcentre.ca/media_room/Media_Releases/2008/0211_wpg_anthem.asp . April 2, 2015 . dead .
  5. Web site: Filmmaker Dana Inkster . Bhogal . Preet . May 7, 2008 . dailyxtra.com/ . . March 8, 2015.
  6. Web site: Rethinking stereotypes . Kenney . Trevor . October 29, 2009 . . March 8, 2015.
  7. Web site: Immigration influx . https://archive.today/20150309234120/http://www.ffwdweekly.com/screen/film-features/immigration-influx/ . dead . March 9, 2015 . Ciccone . Carla . September 27, 2007 . Fast Forward Weekly . March 8, 2015 .
  8. News: Canadian Race Relations Foundation announces launch of national anti- racism campaign. Canada NewsWire. 21 Oct 1999. .
  9. Web site: 24 Days in Brooks . . . March 8, 2015.

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