Amanda Strong facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Amanda Strong
Strong at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
Education	Sheridan College
Known for	filmmaker, stop-motion animation
Notable work	Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) (2018), Indigo (2014), Mia' (Salmon) (2015)

Amanda Strong is a talented filmmaker from Canada. She lives in Vancouver. Amanda is known for making movies using stop-motion animation. This is a cool way to make films where you move objects a tiny bit, take a picture, and then move them again. When you play all the pictures fast, it looks like the objects are moving on their own! Her films have been shown at big movie events all over the world, like the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Amanda is also a Red River Métis person, which means she is part of an Indigenous group in Canada.

About Amanda Strong

Early Life and Education

Amanda Strong lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, and has also lived in Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec.

She went to Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. There, she studied different art forms like illustration, media, and photography. These skills helped her become the unique filmmaker she is today.

Her Special Way of Making Films

Amanda Strong's films tell important Indigenous stories. She uses a special style she calls "hybrid documentary." This means she mixes stop-motion animation with new technology. Her films often combine different types of storytelling, like documentaries (which show real facts), animation, and traditional stories.

Amanda's background in photography and illustration helps her create amazing visuals in her movies. A big part of her work is about bringing back and celebrating Indigenous histories, family lines, languages, and cultures.

Spotted Fawn Productions

Amanda Strong also started her own company called Spotted Fawn Productions. This studio is a place where new artists, especially those from diverse backgrounds, can learn and get help with their projects. It's a way for Amanda to support other talented people in the film world.

Awards and Recognition

Amanda Strong has received many awards and grants for her amazing work. These grants help her create more films and projects. Some of the groups that have supported her include the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the National Film Board of Canada.

• In 2009, she received a special mentorship from ImagineNATIVE/LIFT.
• In 2013, she won the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Film and Video.
• In 2015, the Mayor of Vancouver gave her an Arts Award for being an exciting new media artist.
• In 2016, a famous filmmaker named Alanis Obomsawin chose Amanda to receive a big award from Technicolor. This award helped Amanda get $50,000 worth of services for her films.

Award-Winning Films

Amanda's films have also won awards:

• Her film Mia, which she co-directed with Bracken Hanuse Corlett, won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Aboriginal film at the 2016 Yorkton Film Festival.
• In 2018, her short film Biidaaban won "best script" and a "Special Mention" at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
• Biidaaban was also nominated for "best animated short" at the 2019 Canadian Screen Awards, which are like the Oscars for Canadian films.

Filmography

Amanda Strong has directed and worked on many films. Here are some of them: