Misplaced Pages

Loretta Todd

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Canadian film director
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This article contains promotional content. Please help improve it by removing promotional language and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic text written from a neutral point of view. (March 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Misplaced Pages's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (March 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable. Please help improve this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed. (November 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)

Loretta Sarah Todd is a Canadian Indigenous documentary filmmaker. Her films have been 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’s work encompasses Indigenous media. Todd herself is Indigenous Cree/Metis.

Career

Filmography

  • Halfway House
  • Breaking Camp
  • Robes of Power
  • Blue Neon
  • The Storyteller in the City
  • Day Glo Wrestler
  • Eagle Run
  • The Healing Circle
  • Taking Care of Our Own
  • The Learning Path
  • Hands of History
  • Voice-Life
  • No More Secrets
  • Through the Lens: an Alternative Look at Filmmaking (1996)
  • Forgotten Warriors (1997)
  • Today is a Good Day (1999)
  • Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On (2003)
  • Tansi! Nehiyawetan (2011)
  • Skye & Chang pilot (2014)
  • Coyote’s Crazy Smart Science Show (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
  • Chicago International Film Festival - Silver Hugo for The Learning Path.
  • Two Rivers Film Festival - New Visionary Award for The Learning Path.
  • American Film and Video Festival - Blue Ribbon for The Learning Path.
  • Genie Award - Best Short Documentary nomination for Forgotten Warriors
  • American Indian Film Festival - Winner for Best Live Short: Subject for Skye & Chang (2013)
  • Women in Film & Television Vancouver’s Spotlight Awards - Winner 2018 Innovation Award
  • American Indian Film Festival - Best Documentary Film for Today is a Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George
  • American Indian Film Festival - Best Documentary Film for Forgotten Warriors
  • HotDocs - Best History Documentary for Forgotten Warriors

References

  1. "Loretta Todd". wef.org. 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  2. ^ "Loretta Todd". The Shine Network Institute. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  3. "Loretta Todd". development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  4. "NFB Films directed by Loretta Todd". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  5. ^ "Loretta Todd". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  6. ^ Levitin, Jacqueline (2012-12-06). Levitin, Jacqueline; Plessis, Judith; Raoul, Valerie (eds.). Women Filmmakers. doi:10.4324/9780203819418. ISBN 9780203819418.
  7. ^ Silverman, Jason. "Loretta Todd". Historica Canada. April 2007.
  8. ^ Kalafatic, Carol (1999-01-31), "Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh", in Armatage, Kay; Banning, Kass; Longfellow, Brenda (eds.), Gendering the Nation, University of Toronto Press, doi:10.3138/9781442675223-009, ISBN 9781442675223
  9. "Fierce Girls Webseries". Fierce Girls. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  10. Townsend, Kelly (September 24, 2020). "Monkey Beach's 10-year journey from print to screen". Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  11. Silverman, Jason. "Uncommon Visions- The Films of Loretta Todd." Senses of Cinema. October 2002.
Categories:
Ad.

Before you begin

Get Life Coaching Tips
Or continue to this article
X