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Shirley Vercruysse is known for The Road Forward (2017), Waydowntown (2000) and Radiant City (2006).
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Shirley Vercruysse is the Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada’s BC & Yukon Studio, where she leads the team producing documentary and animation projects.
Shirley Vercruysse is the Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada’s (NFB) Pacific & Yukon Centre where she leads the team producing documentary and animation projects. The studio’s latest projects include the feature-length documentary Ninth Floor (2015) and short films Debris (2015) and Rock the Box (2015).
Shirley Vercruysse Producer. Shirley is the Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada’s BC & Yukon Studio, where she leads the team producing documentary and animation projects.
- Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
- Because We Are Girls
- Docx Special Event: Supreme Law
- Reduxsalutes NFB Women Filmmakers
- Revisiting Five Feminist Minutes
- Focus on Julia Ivanova
- Remembering Pepita
- Mygrierson, An Illustrated Talk with Bill Nemtin
Somefilms are simply released. Others confront us, defying us to see ourselves innew ways. Such is the case with nîpawistamâsowin:We Will Stand Up, Tasha Hubbard’s tour de force about the shooting death ofColten Boushie and subsequent acquittal of Gerald Stanley. Programmed in thecoveted opening night slot, nîpawistamâsowin:We Will Stand Uphas the ...
Vancouver-basedfilmmaker Baljit Sangra amplifies and enriches the #MeToo conversation with Because We Are Girls, a stirringportrait of sibling solidarity and resilience. Havingkept silent for decades about their common experience of childhood sexualabuse, three sisters from a conservative South Asian family, suspecting thattheir former abuser is st...
WhileAmericans frequently get riled up over their own constitution, Canadians tendto be pretty ho-hum about theirs. SupremeLawis here to change that. Presentedas a special event in the DocX program, the innovative interactive documentarybrings together YouTube stars, constitutional scholars and historic videoclips, and features Deep Dives into the ...
On the heels of the NFB’s announcement that it has achieved its industry-leading gender-parity goals, the 2019 REDUX program at Hot Docs is honouring the work of the celebrated Studio D, which broke new ground for women filmmakers when it was established in 1974. Featuredare no fewer than three Oscar-winning Studio D titles — Beverly Shaffer’s I’ll...
AmongStudio D’s most important contributions to women’s cinema was Five Feminist Minutes, a wildly diverseprogram of shorts that circulated widely when released back in 1990, openingdoors for young women filmmakers across Canada. The REDUX Program revisits theproject with the imaginative FiveFeminist Minutes 2019.Four shorts by contemporary women d...
Thisyear’s Focus On program is showcasingthe work of Julia Ivanova, the Russian-born director behind acclaimed docs likeFrom Russia, for Love (2000), FatherhoodDreams (2007), and Family Portrait inBlack and White, which won the award for Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docsin 2011. Making its Ontario premiere as part of the tribute is the NFB produced...
Pepita Ferrari, a leading member of Canada’s documentary community, died in December 2018, and Hot Docs is honouring her memory with a screening of one of her most accomplished and ambitious films: the NFB-produced Capturing Reality, a feature-length exploration of the art of documentary. Interview subjects include cinéma-vérité pioneers Albert May...
As partof its tribute to the NFB’s 80th birthday, Hot Docs 2019 has invitedproducer Bill Nemtin to present My Grierson, an illustrated lecturein which Nemtin reflects on the momentous legacy of his mentor John Grierson,the fiery Scot who founded the NFB and Canada’s documentary tradition in1939. Free and open to the public,MyGrierson takes place We...
Mar 11, 2019 · Due for imminent release from BC & Yukon Studio (Selwyn Jacob, producer; Shirley Vercruysse, executive producer). Because We Are Girls. Becoming Labrador: In a unique collaboration, three directors profile the small but growing Filipino community in the Labrador town Valley-Goose Bay, reflecting on the themes of mobility and ...
Depuis 2014, Shirley Vercruysse est productrice exécutive à l’Office national du film du Canada. Installée à Vancouver, elle dirige une équipe qui produit des documentaires dans l’Ouest canadien (Colombie-Britannique, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Territoires du Nord-Ouest et Yukon).
