Loretta Todd facts for kids
Loretta Sarah Todd is a Canadian Indigenous film director. Todd has directed over 100 projects including documentaries, video games, animated media, and television shows.
Todd's work encompasses contributions to Indigenous media.
Todd's films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the American Indian Film Festival (San Francisco), the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and in the Museum of Modern Art. Todd has received many awards, all of which are listed in the Selected Awards and Nominations. Todd's race is indigenous Cree/Metis.
Career
Filmography
- Halfway House, a film about a center for Native convicts released from prison.
- Breaking Camp, an experimental installation
- Robes of Power, a documentary
- Blue Neon, an experimental film
- The Storyteller in the City installation
- Day Glo Wrestler
- Eagle Run, educational film
- The Healing Circle, educational film
- Taking Care of Our Own, educational film
- The Learning Path, a documentary
- Hands of History, a documentary
- Voice-Life, an educational film
- No More Secrets, an educational film
- Through the Lens: an Alternative Look at Filmmaking (1996)
- Forgotten Warriors documentary (1997)
- Today is a Good Day (1999)
- Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On (2003)
- Tansi! Nehiyawetan 3 seasons with APTN (2011)
- Skye & Chang pilot APTN (2014)
- Coyote’s Crazy Smart Science Show3 seasons with APTN (2017)
- Fierce Girls (2018)
- Monkey Beach (2020)
Selected awards and nominations
- Rockefeller Fellow
- ImagineNATIVE Lifetime Achievement Award
- Taos Mountain Award for Lifetime Achievement
- Sundance Scriptwriters Lab
- The Learning Path, a residential schools documentary, combined historical and contemporary footage with recreated scenes. The film was commissioned as part of the series As Long as the Rivers Flow, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Tamarack Productions. This was Todd's first major production as director, writer and narrator, garnering for her a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, the New Visionary Award at the Two Rivers Film Festival, and a Blue Ribbon at the American Film and Video Festival.(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
- Writer-director Todd was nominated for a Genie Award (Best Short Documentary) for Forgotten Warriors ,(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
- American Indian Film Festival: Winner for Best Live Short Subject for Skye & Chang (2013)
- Genie Awards: Nominee for Best Documentary Short Forgotten warriors
- Women in Film & Television Vancouver’s Spotlight Awards: Winner 2018 Innovation Award
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