Loretta Todd
{{Short description|Canadian film director}}
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Loretta Sarah Todd is a Canadian Indigenous documentary filmmaker.{{Cite web |date=2020-09-25 |title=Loretta Todd |website=wef.org |url=https://www.wef.org.in/loretta-todd/,%20https://www.wef.org.in/loretta-todd/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Loretta Todd |url=https://www.shinenetwork.ca/indigenous-women-in-media/loretta-todd/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=The Shine Network Institute |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Loretta Todd |url=https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/loretta-todd |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}} Todd herself is Indigenous Cree/Metis.{{Cite web |title=NFB Films directed by Loretta Todd |url=https://www.nfb.ca/directors/loretta-todd/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=National Film Board of Canada |language=en}}
Career
= Filmography =
- Halfway House{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865223/|title=Loretta Todd|website=IMDb|access-date=2019-03-26}}{{Cite book|last=Levitin|first=Jacqueline|editor-first1=Jacqueline |editor-first2=Judith |editor-first3=Valerie |editor-last1=Levitin |editor-last2=Plessis |editor-last3=Raoul |date=2012-12-06|title=Women Filmmakers|doi=10.4324/9780203819418|isbn=9780203819418}}
- 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)Silverman, Jason. [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/loretta-todd/ "Loretta Todd".] Historica Canada. April 2007.
- Tansi! Nehiyawetan (2011){{Citation|last=Kalafatic|first=Carol|editor-first1=Kay |editor-first2=Kass |editor-first3=Brenda |editor-last1=Armatage |editor-last2=Banning |editor-last3=Longfellow |chapter=Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh|date=1999-01-31|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442675223|doi=10.3138/9781442675223-009|title=Gendering the Nation}}
- Skye & Chang pilot (2014)
- Coyote’s Crazy Smart Science Show (2017)
- Fierce Girls (2018){{Cite web|url=http://www.fiercegirls.tv/|title=Fierce Girls Webseries|website=Fierce Girls|access-date=2019-03-26}}
- Monkey Beach (2020){{Cite web |date=September 24, 2020 |first=Kelly |last=Townsend |title=Monkey Beach's 10-year journey from print to screen |url=https://playbackonline.ca/2020/09/24/monkey-beachs-10-year-journey-from-print-to-screen/ |access-date=2023-04-05}}
Selected awards and nominations
- Rockefeller Fellow
- ImagineNATIVE Lifetime Achievement Award
- Taos Mountain Award for Lifetime AchievementSilverman, Jason. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iLNhHWfarosC&dq=Uncommon%20Visions-%20The%20Films%20of%20Loretta%20Todd&pg=PA376 "Uncommon Visions- The Films of Loretta Todd."] Senses of Cinema. October 2002.
- 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
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