IFFO Screen Summit Online

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IFFO Screen Summit Online - July 20 - 24, 2020

The IFFO Screen Summit is a 5-day event dedicated to strengthening and inspiring Ottawa's growing screen-based industries while addressing topics relevant to all Canadian industry professionals.

From July 20 to 24, the IFFO Screen Summit Online will feature informative presentations, talks and networking events. This free event is made possible with the support of Ontario Creates. Registration will open on Monday, July 13th at noon.

Meet The Presenters

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    Marie Clements
    Writer, Director, Producer
    Marie has ignited her brand of artistry within a variety of mediums including film, TV, radio, and live performance. Her latest project, the feature drama Red Snow has won Most Popular Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Best Canadian Feature Film at the Edmonton International Film Festival; earned nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film, and won the Best Director of a Feature at the 2019 American Indian Film Festival (AIFF) in San Francisco and Best Achievement in Film from the L.A. Skins Festival in Los Angeles. Red Snow has recently been nominated for 10 Leo Awards and her feature music documentary, The Road Forward, produced by the NFB premiered at Hot Docs, opened the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, closed the 2018 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, receiving five Leo Awards including Best Production, Best Director, and Best Screenwriter. The Road Forward has screened at over 300 venues in North America also receiving a Best Director Award at the AIFF, as well as, a Writer’s Guild Nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay in 2018,. A 2019 Telefilm Canada Birks Diamond Tribute to Women In Film recipient, Marie was also nominated for a DGC Best Director Award for her work on Red Snow. She received the WFF Women on Top Award and WIFTTV Spotlight Impact Award 2018. Her documentary Looking at Edward Curtis premiered at DOXA and The Yorkton Film Festival with four nominations for Best Documentary and premiered on Knowledge Network. Her multi-award-winning films have screened at Cannes, TIFF, MOMA, VIFF, Whistler Film Festival, American Indian Film Festival and ImagineNATIVE Film Festival. Her play The Unnatural and Accidental Women opened the first national Indigenous theatre at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa last fall, and her opera Missing toured nationally both to critical acclaim. Marie’s fifteen plays have been presented on some of the most prestigious stages for Canadian and international work garnering numerous awards and publications including the 2004 Canada- Japan Literary Award, and two prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award nominations. MCM is an independent media production company owned and operated by Clements specializing in the development, creation and production of innovative works of media that explore an Indigenous and intercultural reality.
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    Sherren Lee
    Director
    Named as The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 Canada’s Rising Stars, Sherren’s a 2014 alumna of the CFC Directors' Lab and was selected as one of Women In View's 'Five in Focus' Directors in 2017. She is the award-winning director of short film BENJAMIN (2015) and web series SOMEONE NOT THERE (2014). Her latest short, THE THINGS YOU THINK I’M THINKING (2017) has screened at over eighty film festivals across the globe, won a dozen awards, was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick and has over 1.2 million views on Omeleto Channel on YouTube.

    Sherren is also a proficient episodic director; her credits include Shaftesbury’s Murdoch Mysteries (CBC) and Hudson & Rex (CityTV), Back Alley and Muse Entertainment’s Coroner (CBC), Sinking Ship Entertainment's Odd Squad (PBS, TVO), Dino Dana (Amazon, TVO & Yoopa) and Endlings (Hulu Original, CBC).
Sessions in this IFFO Screen Summit Online
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    Ottawa Film Office: State of the Industry
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    Successfully Navigating Canada’s Feature Film Financing
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    Ask Me Anything: Simone Smith
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    Ask Me Anything: Shasha Nakhai & Natalie Novak
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    Ask Me Anything: Marie Clements
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    Ask Me Anything: Mind Fudge
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    Ask Me Anything: Sherren Lee
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    Ask Me Anything: Rustic Oracle
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    The Enlightened Screen - Red Snow
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    Case Study: Rustic Oracle
    Mohawk filmmaker Sonia Bonspille-Boileau and Jason Brennan dive into the concept to screen story, including challenges and the effect... View more
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    Case Study: Mind Fudge
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    Who, Me? with Alison Duke
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    Who, Me? with Lisa Soper
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    Who, Me? with Shasha Nakhai
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    Who, Me? with Natalie Novak
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    Who, Me? with Simone Smith
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    Who, Me? with Sherren Lee
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    Ontario Creates Sizzle Reel
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    Ottawa Film Office Sizzle Reel
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    CBC One Stop Business Workshops

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