Elizabeth Klinck‎

Elizabeth Klinck is a visual researcher and clearance specialist in the Canadian and international documentary film industry. Some of the notable projects she has worked on include Werner Herzog's Into the Inferno,{{IMDb title|4846318|Into the Inferno}} Thorsten Schütte's Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words,{{IMDb title|5275830|Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words}} Barry Arvich's Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story,{{IMDb title|2755860|Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story}} Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell,{{cite web|url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/stories_we_tell/|title=Stories We Tell|publisher=|accessdate=18 February 2017}} Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir's Innsaei{{IMDb title|4924624|Innsaei}} and Neil Diamond's Reel Injun.{{cite web|url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=57797|title=National Film Board of Canada|first=Government of Canada, National Film Board of|last=Canada|publisher=|accessdate=18 February 2017}}

She was nominated for an Emmy Award in the craft of research, and three times for Best Visual Researcher at the FOCAL Awards in the United Kingdom.{{cite web|url=http://www.focalint.org/footage-skills-and-services/directory/member/432/klinck-elizabeth|title=Klinck, Elizabeth - Footage Skills & Services - FOCAL International|publisher=|accessdate=18 February 2017}} She has also won the 2014, 2015 and 2017 Barbara Sears Award for Best Visual Research from the Canadian Screen Awards. In 2021, Elizabeth won her fourth Barbara Sears Award for her work on Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust.Rachel West, "‘Canada’s Drag Race’, ‘Property Brothers’, Jann Arden Among Canadian Screen Awards Lifestyle And Reality Winners". ET Canada, May 17, 2021. In 2015 she won a Prix Gemeaux for her work on Apocalypse World One and in 2010 she won a Gemini for Best Visual Research for her work on Reel Injun. She has also won a Yorkton Golden Sheaf award and was honored with the FOCAL International Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. She is the founding chairperson of the Visual Researchers' Society of Canada.{{Cite web|url=http://povmagazine.com/blog/view/elizabeth-klinck-and-the-tingle-principle|title=Elizabeth Klinck and the "Tingle Principle"|date=10 August 2015|website=Point of View}}

Awards

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!Year

!Award

!Film/Television Program

!Co-Winner

2008

|FOCAL Lifetime Achievement Award{{cite web|url=http://www.focalint.org/focal-international-news/news/10/focal-international-awards-celebrate-winners|title=FOCAL International Awards Celebrate Winners - FOCAL International News - News & Journal - FOCAL International|publisher=|accessdate=18 February 2017}}

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2008

|Yorkton Golden Sheaf for Best Research{{Cite web|url=http://yorktonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2008-Nominees_and_Winners.pdf|title=CANADA'S GOLDEN SHEAF AWARD WINNERS 2008|website=Yorkton Film Festival|access-date=2017-02-14|archive-date=2019-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806170425/http://yorktonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2008-Nominees_and_Winners.pdf|url-status=dead}}

|The Nature of Things: "The Science of the Senses - Touch"

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2010

|Gemini for Best Visual Research{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemapolitica.org/blog/network/reel-injun-wins-five-geminis|title=Reel Injun wins five Geminis!|publisher=|accessdate=18 February 2017|archive-date=22 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922185125/https://www.cinemapolitica.org/blog/network/reel-injun-wins-five-geminis|url-status=dead}}

|Reel Injun

|Laura Blaney

2011

| FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production ]{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinemapolitica.org/blog/network/reel-injun-wins-five-geminis|title=Reel Injun Wins Five Geminis|access-date=2017-02-16|archive-date=2019-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922185125/https://www.cinemapolitica.org/blog/network/reel-injun-wins-five-geminis|url-status=dead}}

|Reel Injun

|Laura Blaney

2014

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research{{cite web|url=http://www.sportscastermagazine.ca/on-air/academy-announces-canadian-screen-awards-winners/1002946774/|title=Academy Announces Canadian Screen Awards Winners - Sportscaster Magazine|date=5 March 2014|publisher=|accessdate=18 February 2017}}

|Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story

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2014

|DOC Star Award Documentary Organization of Canada{{cite web|url=http://realscreen.com/2014/12/09/doc-institute-unveils-inaugural-award-winners/|title=DOC Institute taps Klinck, Story for inaugural awards|publisher=|accessdate=18 February 2017}}

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2015

|Gémeaux for Best Research

|Apocalypse World War One

|Valerie Combard

2015

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|Apocalypse World War One

|Valerie Combard

2017

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research{{Cite web|url=https://www.academy.ca/2017/gala-honouring-excellence-non-fiction-programming/|title=Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television Winner's List|date=7 March 2017 }}

|How to Change the World

|Elizabeth Etherington

2017

|FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in an Arts Production

|Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

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2019

|Canadian Screen Award - Academy Board of Director's Tribute

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2021

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust

|Elspeth Domville, Monica Penner

Nominations

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!Year

!Award

!Film/Television Program

!Co-Researcher

2002

|Gemini Award for Best Biographical Documentary Program

|Ted Allan: Minstrel Boy of the Twentieth Century

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2005

|FOCAL Award Nominated for Footage Researcher of the Year{{Cite web|url=https://www.focalint.org/focal-international-awards/2005/the-focal-international-awards-2005/nominations/award-for-footage-researcher-of-the-year|title=The FOCAL International Awards 2005 - FOCAL International Awards - FOCAL International|website=www.focalint.org}}

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2006

|Emmy Award Nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Craft: Research{{Cite web|url=http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_27th_nominees_data.html|title=NOMINEES FOR THE NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY Emmy® AWARDS ANNOUNCED BY THE NATIONAL TELEVISION ACADEMY|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924000546/http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_27th_nominees_data.html|archive-date=2015-09-24|url-status=dead}}

|Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She

2010

|Gemini for Best Visual Research{{Cite web|url=http://geminiawards.tribute.ca/2010winners.asp|title=26th Annual Gemini Awards 2011|website=geminiawards.tribute.ca|access-date=2017-02-20|archive-date=2012-05-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525183750/http://geminiawards.tribute.ca/2010winners.asp|url-status=dead}}

|Reel Injun

|Laura Blaney

2011

|Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production{{Cite web|url=https://www.focalint.org/focal-international-awards/2011/the-focal-international-awards-2011/nominations/best-use-of-footage-in-a-factual-production|title=The FOCAL International Awards 2011 - FOCAL International Awards - FOCAL International|website=www.focalint.org}}

|Reel Injun

|Laura Blaney

2011

|FOCAL Award Nominated for Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year{{Cite web|url=https://www.focalint.org/focal-international-awards/2011/the-focal-international-awards-2011/nominations/the-jane-mercer-footage-researcher-of-the-year-award|title=The FOCAL International Awards 2011 - FOCAL International Awards - FOCAL International|website=www.focalint.org}}

2014

|FOCAL Award Nominated for Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment Production{{Cite web|url=https://www.focalint.org/focal-international-awards/2014/the-focal-international-awards-2014/nominations/best-use-of-footage-in-an-entertainment-production|title=The FOCAL International Awards 2014 - FOCAL International Awards - FOCAL International|website=www.focalint.org}}

|Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story

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2014

|FOCAL Award Nominated for Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production{{Cite web|url=https://www.focalint.org/focal-international-awards/2014/the-focal-international-awards-2014/nominations/best-use-of-footage-in-a-factual-production|title=The FOCAL International Awards 2014 - FOCAL International Awards - FOCAL International|website=www.focalint.org}}

|Arctic Defenders

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2014

|FOCAL Award Nominated for Jane Mercer Footage Researcher of the Year{{Cite web|url=https://www.focalint.org/focal-international-awards/2014/the-focal-international-awards-2014/nominations/the-jane-mercer-footage-researcher-of-the-year-award|title=The FOCAL International Awards 2014 - FOCAL International Awards - FOCAL International|website=www.focalint.org}}

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2014

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story

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2015

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|The Secret Disco Revolution

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2015

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|Apocalypse World War One

|Valerie Combard

2015

|Gémeaux for Best Research Current Affairshttp://www.acct.ca/medias/files/pdf/Site%20prix%20G%C3%A9meaux/Gagnants/gem2015-gagnants-liste-artisansdocumentaire.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221110025/http://www.acct.ca/medias/files/pdf/Site%20prix%20G%C3%A9meaux/Gagnants/gem2015-gagnants-liste-artisansdocumentaire.pdf |date=2017-02-21 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

|Apocalypse World War One

|Valerie Combard

2017

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research{{Cite web|url=https://www.academy.ca/2017/elizabeth-klinck-liz-etherington/|title=How To Change The World | Barbara Sears Award for Best Visual Research | Canadian Screen Awards|date=January 9, 2017}}

|How to Change the World

|Elizabeth Etherington

2017

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research{{Cite web|url=https://www.academy.ca/2017/adam-benzine-leslie-swift-lindsay-zarwell-elizabeth-klinck/|title=Adam Benzine, Leslie Swift, Lindsay Zarwell, Elizabeth Klinck | Barbara Sears Award for Best Visual Research Nominee | Canadian Screen Awards|date=January 12, 2017}}

|Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

| Adam Benzine, Leslie Swift, Lindsay Zarwell

2017

|FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in an Arts Production

|Eat That Question - Frank Zappa in His Own Words

2017

|FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage in a Cinema Release

|Eat That Question - Frank Zappa in His Own Words

2017

|FOCAL Award for Best Use of Footage about the Natural World

|Into the Inferno

2018

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|Quebec My Country Mon Pays

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2018

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|The Devil's Horn

|Elspeth Domville

2019

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|You are Here: A Come From Away Story

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2021

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust

|Elspeth Domville, Monica Penner

2021

|Barbara Sears Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research

|Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

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